i70 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
species: from the “‘variat spira coronata” we learn that his 
type, at least, was not identical with the modern minimus (coro- 
natus of Dillwyn). 
The name minimus (least) misleads one: it was intended for 
a translation of “la Minime,” the meaning of which latter 
may, perhaps, be understood by Gersaint’s earlier name Cuculla 
Minimorum ( Franeiscanorum ). 
Cows rusticus. 
Not one of the three most dissimilar figures that are cited 
in illustration of this obscure species corresponds with the 
description. That of Rumphius, usually ascribed to cinereus, 
is at variance with the diagnosis in shape and in the absence of 
the required basal murication; that of Gualtier, apparently 
taken from a much worn shell, that cannot be positively deter- 
mined, yet has somewhat the aspect of magus or achatinus, 
suits not the expression “ livida, fascia albido-nebulosa;” that 
of Argenville, equally uncertain with the last, though it has 
been quoted for cldssiarius, and having the aspect of a smooth 
polished specimen, with a conic shape, is opposed to both 
ovata” and “ muricato.” The box marked for this species in 
the Linnean cabinet accounts for the “bene” which was ap- 
pended in our author’s copy to the last-named reference. It 
contains a lathe-polished specimen of classiarius that looks 
precisely like Argenville’s figure, and was probably supposed 
by Linneus to be the uncoated state of one of the two shells, 
C. flavidus and C. lividus, which accompany it: the confusion of 
these two Cones, which in general aspect much resemble each 
other, is explained by the note immediately beneath the species 
in the ‘ Systema,’ wherein coronation is declared to be a mere va- 
rietal, not a specific, distinction. As to figures, it would have been 
very difficult, judging from the published synonymies, to have 
discovered any delineation of those Cones in the works habi- 
tually consulted by the illustrious Swede. Possibly lividus was 
the coronated variety (not the typical form) alluded to in the 
concluding paragraph of the description of the species in the 
‘Museum Ulrice ;’ it appears to be the rusticus of Kammerer. 
