wo 
— 
wo 
SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
Voluta torwatilis. 
How so briefly described and unillustrated a species could 
have been recognised by naturalists is passing strange. The 
accuracy of the traditional identification is supported, however, 
by an analytical examination of the contents of the Linnean 
cabinet, where the Tornatella fasciata (Crouch, Introd. Lam. 
Conch. pl. 16, f. 8) alone corresponds precisely to the pub- 
lished description of it; and since our author has declared his 
possession of the species, no reasonable doubt can be enter- 
tained of the authority of the specimens. Moreover, the 
younger Linné has corroborated the evidence, by the citation 
of “Da Cost. Conch. t. 8, f. 2.— Mart. Syst. t. 26, f. 442, 443. 
—Pen. Zool. iv. t. 71, f. 86,” 
DVoluta solidula, 
Since the cited figure does not exhibit a shell with a plicated 
pillar, it is evident that it was erroneously referred to, and, 
probably, because the markings there displayed corresponded 
to, the painting of the object it was intended to illustrate. The 
language of the ‘Museum Ulrice’ indicates that the shell 
belonged to the modern genus Tornatella, and it has pleased 
naturalists to select, as its representative, the species de- 
signated in consequence TJ’. solidula (Reeve, Conch. Syst. 
pl. 206, f. 7), which, indeed, corresponds fairly enough with the 
few specific characters that are mentioned in the ‘Systema.’ 
The statement, however, in the ‘Museum Ulrice,’ that the 
inner lip is yellow, and the lineated bands are red, is somewhat 
opposed to the ordinary colouring, and to the words of the 
‘Systema.’ Were it not for the “biplicata” one might have 
fancied that J. flammea was there intended, and that shell 
appears at one time to have been confused with it by Linnzus, 
as the reference to “ List. Conch. 814, f. 24,” in one of his 
many copies, evinces. 
The younger Linné has erased the faulty reference to 
