MUREX. 308 
ordinary degree of carelessness, by omitting to quote Seba’s 
many delineations of it (vol. 11. pl. 39, f. 75; pl. 83, f. 3 to 6; 
pl. 93, f. 3), and by annexing the representation of it in Lister 
(Ang. t. 3, f. 1) to the synonymy of the succeeding species. 
SMuvex Despectus, 
The Fusus despectus of authors (Kiener, Coq. Viv. Fus. pl. 19, 
f. 2) is marked for this shell in the Linnean collection. As the 
description (No. 2166) in the ‘ Fauna Suecica’ is a mere verbal 
repetition of that of the ‘Systema,’ the species must have been 
chiefly recognised by the delineation of it in the ‘Iter West- 
gothicum ;’ for the synonym of Lister would more correctly 
have been annexed to the preceding Murew. 
SMivexr Tritonis. 
The Triton variegatus of Lamarck (Reeve, Conch. Icon. 
vol. u. Trit. f. 3, b) is still preserved in the Linnean collection, 
and alone agrees with the species as originally defined in the 
tenth edition of the ‘Systema,’ where, besides Gualtier and 
Rumphius, Bonanni (Recr. pt. 3, pl. 188) was rightly quoted, 
though, strange to relate, omitted in the twelfth edition, where 
Seba and Rondelet (Tit. nodiferum) were added to the previous 
references. Linnus had also designed to quote “ List. t. 959.” 
The twelve figures that are contained in the cited plate of 
Seba all belong to the T’riton variegatus, but exhibit various 
forms of it. Conrad, in the new series of the ‘Journal of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,’ has suggested 
that the Lamarckian 7’. variegatus should be subdivided into 
three species, for which he has proposed the names 7’. Tritonis, 
T. nobilis and T’. variegatus, for the shells respectively depicted 
as the latter, by Reeve at figure 3, b and 3,a; and by Kiener in 
plate 2 of his Monograph of the Tritons. As Conrad has re- 
ferred the figures of Bonanni, Rumphius, Gualtier, and the 
three principal ones of Seba (by a typographical error, he has 
quoted the plate as 73), to the first of these three, he has thus 
