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synonyms to the Nat. Chinensis, canrena (of authors), amille- 
punctata, and lineata. If the name must be bestowed upon any 
one of these four individually the first of them has the merit of 
a better accordance with the general account of the species in 
the ‘Museum Ulrice.’ 
evita glauctwra. 
Owing to the circumstance that no accurate delineation of the 
object intended by our author was then extant, the synonymy of 
this shell exhibits an unprecedented state of confusion. Even 
in the tenth edition of the ‘Systema’ no less than five perfectly 
distinct species were included in it, viz., T’uwrbo Nicobaricus ? 
(Gualt. 67, f. P.), Natica Vitellus (Rumph. pl. 22, f. A), Nat. ful- 
minata (Gualt. pl. 67, f. M.), and two other Natice, delineated 
severally by Gualtier (67, f. T) and by Lister (pl. 563), The last 
of these was omitted in the twelfth edition, where “labio” re- 
places the original “lobo,” and where Nat. monilifera (List. Angl. 
pl. 3, f. 10), the N. glaucina of British writers, Nat. Alderi (Fauna 
Suecica, 2197), and an erroneous reference (for there is no such 
numeral as f. 14 in plate 13 of Adanson’s ‘ Senegal’) swell out 
the list of discordant synonyms. The account in the ‘Museum 
Ulric, where the original references, save Lister only, again 
appeared, was opposed to the characters of all the species there 
quoted; and the few unillustrated details sufficed not for the 
definition of the object. From the many Natice thus incon- 
gruously associated together various writers have each arbi- 
trarily selected a supposed representative of the Linnean 
glaucina. The appellation has been claimed, and with some 
degree of justice, for both Aldert and monilifera. Lamarck has 
been singularly unfortunate in his choice; since no figure of 
his glaucina is to be descried among the quoted engravings. 
In the Linnean cabinet is still preserved a marked individual 
(plate 3, f. 5), which both displays a general resemblance to 
Adanson, pl. 13, f. 2 (for which the invisible 14 was probably a 
misprint), and reminds one in certain points of most of the 
cited delineations, so far, at least, as to account in some 
measure for the extraordinary grouping there exhibited. The 
type thus at length discovered may perhaps be held a variety 
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