BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND. 13. AFD. IV. N:0 5. 23 



of RiMPHius, added in the S. N. ed. 10, is marked »Pholas», but 

 this also is crossed out and replaeed by »Lentuhis». It is the 

 Venus pectinata, 120, of the S. N. ed. 10; 72 of the M. L. U. and 

 144 of S. N. ed. 12, a Cytherea in Lamaeck, and a Circe in iater 

 works. 



»5. Ziczac. Pholas postice augulo recto circumscripta. Gualt. 

 t. 77, f. C. Is transversini striata, and the slri» are bent backwards. 

 White with red stripes going zigzag: inwardly white»; »but the rima 

 or opening is reddish» is added in one of tlie manuscripts. The fi- 

 gure in Rumph. t. XLIII, f. C, is marked »Pholas». This is the 

 Venus scripta, 121, S. N. ed. 10; 73, M. L. U., 145, S. N. 

 ed. 12. Cytherea scripta Lamck, Circe scripta of låter authors. It 

 is not tlie Venus ziczac, 119, S. N. ed. 10; 71, M. L. U.; omitted 

 in the S. N. ed. 12, and referred to V. cancellata, 118. See Hanlky 

 1. c. p. Öii. 



Besidcs tlie three figures in Rumphius: Pl. XLII f. IJ, 

 Circe pectinata, Pl. XLIII, f. JJ, Liicina pvmctata and f. C, 

 Circe scripta, a fourth on tlie same plate, f. B, also bears 

 the pencil-note: »Pholas ■ biit was låter made the type of 

 Chama, as Ch. literata. In addition to these the maniiscript 

 reviewcd bv Hanley presents as species of »Pholas»: Artemis 

 prostrata and exoleta, Liicina edentula and incrustata, and the 

 V. ziczac of the S. N. ed. 10. It seeras that LiNN/EUS at the 

 time had in view the creation of one, or — if Lentnla is more 

 than an alias, — perhaps two genera comprising certain Lu- 

 cinae and Circes, and, among names at hand, applied to it 

 that of Pholas, employed already by Rondelet, in 1554, and 

 Aldrovandi, in 1654, for Lithodomus. Lister at first nsed 

 it for Saxicava, An. Angl. 1(178, biit soon altered it, for that 

 geniis, into Ohama3-Pholas, Avhile conferrino- the name Pholas 

 on the oemis finallv so named in S. X. ed. 10. LiNN/EUS who 

 in 1752 knew this onlv from the accoitnt jjiven bv Lister, 

 and placed it in the genus Solen as S. ciispatus, seems to 

 have remained unacquaintcd with it from personal observation 

 until A. R. Martin') in 1760 brought him specimens from 



') Anton Rolandson Martin, b. 1729, one of the disciples of Lin- 

 N.EUS, vvho in 1757 »presided» över his dissertation de »Buxbaumia». Martin 

 had rediscovered this möss, first found by Cklsius twenty years before, 

 but not observed since. >The Archiater», writes Martin in his auto- 

 hiography, »was greatly pleased with this and praised me not a little 

 before bis disciples. It is laudable in him, that he never withholds the 

 discoveries of others, but puts them in the same light with bis own, 

 which canuot but auimate the young and promote science.» In the follow- 

 lag year Martin, on the recommendation of Linn^iEUS, and at the ex- 

 penses of the Academy of Sciences, accompanied a whaling-ship from 



