MUREX. Q87 
MUurex oleartnr, 
As might have been surmised from the characteristic figures 
of Gualtier and Rumphius (the reference to the latter was mis- 
printed H in the twelfth edition of the ‘ Systema,’ but corrected 
by Linneus to I in his revised copy), and the Mediterranean 
habitat, the Ranella gigantea of Lamarck’ is marked for this 
species (Encycl. Méth. Vers, pl. 4138, f. 1) in the Linnean col- 
lection. This confirms the conclusion arrived at by that 
admirable conchologist Deshayes, whose critical annotations 
on the Linnean species of shells merit the highest praise. 
Linneus has written “illinc tuberculata,” instead of ‘ edentula,” 
in his own copy; his originally described specimen was pro- 
bably either immature or imperfect at the mouth. The re- 
ference to Columna, and the additional synonyms of the twelfth 
edition, to wit, those of Seba (51 was a misprint for 57), Adan- 
son, Bonanni, and Lister (figs. 31, 32 belong severally to t. 936, 
937, and were copied from the last-named author) are wholly 
erroneous. ‘The last, indeed, has been erased (and thus virtu- 
ally, too, the synonym of Bonanni) in the revised copy, where 
“t, 935, f. 830” has more correctly been substituted for it. 
sKiurex femorale, 
The Triton femorale (Knorr, Délic. Yeux, pt. 4, pl. 16, f. 1) 
is marked for this shell in the Linnean collection, and agrees 
with the published description, and with many of the synonyms 
(Grew, Lister, Bonanni, Gualtier and Seba are usually con- 
sidered its acknowledged representations). Having discovered 
that he had confused two distinct species, the great Swedish 
naturalist has written “2” before the name, and excluded the 
references to Regenfuss, Rumphius and Argenville, all of which 
have been generally quoted for T. lotoriwm, and has indicated 
by a “bene” appended to the synonym of Bonanni, that his 
engraving well exhibited the object for which he proposed to 
retain the name. JT’. femorale is figured by Grew, but the 
