VOLUTA. NUE 
Vouk Ui War 
Voluta auris-MUDIzR. 
“ Biplicata” replaces “bidentata” in the proposed new 
edition of the ‘Systema,’ and “1058, f. 6” the previously 
inaccurate reference to Lister’s ‘ Historiw. In the copy that 
belonged to the younger Linné the reference to Bonanni, 
whose engraving has been usually ascribed to the next species, 
has been duly erased. The synonymy thus amended clearly 
points out the Auricula auris-Mide of authors, which shell 
(Reeve, Conch. Syst. pl. 187, f. 10) is still preserved in the 
Linnean cabinet, and alone of its contents answers to the 
definition of the species. The colouring mentioned in the 
‘Museum Ulrice,’ “ Color opalinus, incarnato albove niger,” is 
not applicable to the shell in its natural condition. 
Figure 6 of Seba’s cited engravings does not even belong to 
the genus Auricula, and must be ejected from the synonymy. 
Voluta atris-9 ude. 
The preceding species having been rightly determined, the 
recognition of this closely-allied congener followed, as a matter 
of course, from the specification in the ‘Museum Ulrice’ of 
the differences that exist between them. There is a specimen 
of the Auricula auris-Jude (Reeve, Conch. Syst. pl. 187, f. 4) 
in the Linnean cabinet, but it cannot be regarded as of any 
authority, since Linneus has not signified his possession of 
one. The revised copy of the ‘Systema’ corroborates the 
received opinion, by a reference to “ List. 32,” the change of 
“tridentata” to “triplicata,” and the addition of “sed hee 
subtilissime striata, illa vero glaberrima” after the word 
“precedenti.” The V. auris-Jude of Karsten is a very 
different shell. 
