BUCCINUM. Q57 
alone was quoted in illustration of it. Of the three figures 
referred to in his cited plate, G@ (which has been properly 
erased by .Linneus in his own copy) represents the B. papil- 
losum, and is excluded, as illustrative, by the “ transversim 
striata” of the description. The other two are generally ad- 
mitted to have been intended for the B. (Nassa) reticulatum of 
authors, and being in harmony with the letter-press, clearly 
define the intended species. That shell (Kiener, Coq. Viv. Bucce. 
f. 91) is still preserved in the Linnean collection, and upon the 
whole, of those present, best corresponds with the described 
features, stated size, and European locality. Of the additional 
synonyms inscribed in the twelfth edition of the ‘ Systema,’ 
séveral (Bonanni; Petiver, pl. 64, f. 8; Adanson ?), although 
they remind one of the species by their delineated sculpture, 
must be rejected as fallacious; Lister, however, with Petiver, 
pl. 75, f. 4, and Réaumur in the ‘ Act. Paris.’ (or more properly 
‘Hist. Acad. Sciences Paris’) represent the European species. 
“Col(umella) adglutin(ata)”’ has been added in the revised 
copy: 
Bective wittulun. 
As the figure of Gualtier represents a Colwmbella, one might 
naturally expect that the B. nitidulum was a member of that 
genus. Unfortunately, however, the figure referred to, which 
cannot positively be identified with any species, neither exhibits 
the bands nor the longitudinal corrugations that are attributed 
to the species. It is not surprising, then, that, puzzled by this 
discrepancy, naturalists have failed in determining this doubtful 
shell. The C. nitida, indeed, has been suggested, but in place 
of being “fasciata” and “longitudinaliter striato-rugosa,” is 
speckled or mottled, and perfectly smooth; the produced shape 
of it, moreover, reminds one rather of the B than of the C of 
Gualtier’s cited engraving. Bruguiére’s surmise, that the Lin- 
nean shell might be found in the Bigni of Adanson, would not 
be unreasonable, if one might venture to understand “ striato- 
rugosa” as painted with wrinkle-like lines, “striata” having 
the sense of “lineata” in the next diagnosis. In that case, 
perchance, no shell in the Linnean collection would agree better 
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