214 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
is there spoken of as “ parum torta” instead of “ plicata,” and 
the fact of the shell having originally been placed with the 
Bulle manifests that the folds of the pristine livida were by no 
means conspicuous. 
Poluta coffea, 
It has generally been believed that this species belonged to 
Auricula, and to the section Conovulus; the exact species, 
however, was a matter of doubt, the data not being adequate 
for its determination. Bruguiére considered it to be his Coni- 
formis; Chemnitz delineated the A. felis for it. An analytical 
examination of the contents of the Linnean cabinet (where felis 
is not present) enables us to assert its identity with the A. Coni- 
formis of authors (Reeve, Conch. Syst. t. 187, f. 7, exactly), since 
that shell alone of those present—and Linneus has asserted his 
possession of it—answers to the description in the ‘ Systema.’ 
In the revised copy a reference is made to Lister’s ‘ Historie,’ 
plate 834, f. 59, which, not being represented as toothed upon 
both lips, cannot have been designed for Coniformis, although 
it exhibits sufficiént lkeness to that species to have been 
quoted for it by both Lamarck and Bruguiére, and was doubt- 
lessly cited as the most illustrative drawing then extant. This 
manuscript reference favours the idea of Chemnitz, since the 
rude figure of Lister is either meant for felis or some closely 
allied congener: had it been published it would perchance have 
been necessary to have regarded the species as pictorially de- 
fined. The younger Linné was apparently not satisfied with 
the illustration, for in his own manuscript he has quoted figures 
60, 61 of the same plate, which are somewhat doubtful delinea- 
tions, but have been referred by some to A. monile. He has 
correctly recorded Barbadoes as the habitat of the species. 
Voluta porphyria, 
The Oliva porphyria and erythrostoma of Lamarck’s ‘ Ani- 
maux sans Vertébres,’ together with an uncertain species of 
