304 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA, 
reserved the Linnean name for that form, which, moreover, is 
the only one of them contained in the Linnean cabinet, though 
of course the Swedish naturalist would not have appreciated 
the subtle distinctions on which this subdivision has been 
based. 
Murex pusto, 
The Fusus articulatus (Kiener, Coq. Viv. Fus. pl. 26, f. 2) is 
marked for this shell in the Linnean collection. The specified 
painting corresponds so ill to that of ordinary adult examples, 
that, despite of the inscribed numerals and the harmony of the 
cited figure of Gualtier, one might have distrusted the identifi- 
cation, had not a second individual, an immature one, that 
precisely answers to the description, in which the imperfectly 
connected bands assume the appearance of longitudinal streaks, 
and the spiral throat-striz are not developed, been also marked 
for the same species. 
The erroneous locality (the Mediterranean) was derived from 
Bonanni, whose wretched engraving was intended for a magni- 
fied representation (as we may learn from the explanatory text) 
of a small white shell painted with longitudinal streaks that 
pass from yellowish into black, and having a purplish apex 
(Col. corniculata ?). Had the Pollia maculosa been intended by 
Linneus, as some have surmised, he would hardly have re- 
ferred to plate 52, f. I in Gualtier, but rather to his plate 55, 
BAe 
HUurvex tulipa. 
The Fasciolaria tulipa of authors (Kiener, Coq. Viv. Fasc. 
pl. 2) is marked for this shell in the Linnean collection. The 
referred-to figures in plate 57 of Seba had been previously 
and more correctly quoted for the Voluta Lapponica, a shell 
which presents not the slightest resemblance to tulipa. The 
rest of the synonymy is generally accepted as correct, but ap- 
parently includes F’. distans (Gualt. pl. 46, smaller fig. AW— 
Seba, pl. 71, f. 31 ?), a most closely allied congener, of which 
