282 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
revised copy, has written something opposite to it, which I 
cannot decipher. The rest of the synonymy is generally 
accepted as accurate, though the locality (the Red Sea) 
attributed by Bonanni to the specimen he has delineated 
(277) throws doubt upon its identity. Klein’s engraving was 
copied from figure 274 of the same writer: one feels surprised 
that the representation of it in Ginanni’s work (pl. 9) was not 
quoted in illustration. 
Murex vanostws, 
Nearly every Murex with three ramose varices and a short 
tail seems to have been originally regarded as a form of this 
supposed Protean shell; at least, the figures of all such as 
were then published have been cited as synonyms in both 
editions of the ‘Systema,’ and the Linnean diagnosis in its 
brevity would include them all. This accounts for the cireum- 
stance that both M. adustus and M. pomum are marked for this 
species in the Linnean cabinet, although the former alone finds 
a place in those indicated in the ‘Museum Ulrice.’ One might 
have hoped that the details of the last-named work, by limiting 
the comprehensiveness which necessarily results from too suc- 
cinct a description, would have guided us to a right conclusion 
as to what species, if any, should retain the appellation of 
ramosus. 'lhat hope, I fear, is fallacious. Four Murices are 
referred to in the synonymy of that work; M. inflatus (Rump. 
pl. 26, f. A.; Gualt. pl. 88), M. axicornis (Rump. pl. 26; 
Arg. pl. 19, E.), M. adustus (Arg. pl. 19, f. H.), and M. calcitrapa 
(Arg. pl. 19, f. C.). Irrespectively of this synonymy, it is mani- 
fest, likewise, that three most distinct species (“ A. Angulis mem- 
branaceis planis.—B. Angulis brevissimis undulatis: colore 
albo, maculato luteo.—G. Angulis frondosis: colore rubicundo, 
testaceo, aut pallido.”) were also included as varieties. The 
first of them (pomwm ?) was not represented by any of the cited 
figures; “brevissimis” of the second is scarcely applicable 
even to the varices of inflatus; the third might include all but 
adustus, which last, if we are to regard the variety A as the 
typical form, and that to which the description which follows 
