BUCCINUM. BDL 
Viv. Buccin. f. 120) is still preserved in the Linnean collection, 
and alone of those present agrees with the definition of the 
species, 
Bucci harpa. 
Not only are almost all the known Harp-shells comprehended 
in the synonymy of this species, as published in the ‘ Systema,’ 
but they equally suit the brief description which accompanies 
it in that work. This fortunately matters very little, since the 
term Harpa has now become a generic epithet. The H. nobilis, 
ventricosa and minor are all contained in the Linnean cabinet. 
Of these, the first has the best claim to be considered the 
typical form of the ‘Museum Ulvice;’ since, of the eight 
figures there quoted, five are habitually referred to it; of 
the other three, Rumphius, f. M, which represents H. minor, 
is excluded, as illustrative, by the “ovata” of the description, 
and the H. ventricosa (Rumph. pl. 32, f. K) possesses not the 
lineated painting ascribed to the ribs of harpa in that work. 
The eighth (Gualt. 29, f. D) seems intended for H. articulata, 
a shell whose outer lip is not usually denticulated (‘“‘labium 
exterius — denticulatum”), at least, in ordinary cabinet speci- 
mens. 
Bectnunt costatiunt, 
When Linneus first published this species he felt so doubtful 
of its distinctions being of specific value that he omitted to 
reckon if as a species, but placed it, with a cypher attached, 
between Nos. 400 and 401 in the tenth edition of his ‘ Systema.’ 
The utter insufficiency of the description needs no comment. 
Yet, since all the known delineated Harps of that period were 
comprised in the synonymy of the last species, to which we are 
told this is precisely similar, save that the ribs, in place of being 
moderately apart (“distinctis”), are crowded together (“ con- 
fertis”), there can be little doubt that the Harpa imperialis of 
Lamarck (Sowerby, Genera Shells, Harpa, f. 1) was the shell 
