28 SVEN LOVEN, ON THE ECHINOIDEA DESCRIBED BY LINN.EUS. 



tlie species first in order in eacli genus bear identical num- 

 bcrs in both, after which tlie numbers differ in such a manner 

 as makes it appear that Linx.eus, after having pointed out 

 those first species as the most typical, selected among tlie 

 rest such as seemed worth mentioning or of which specimens 

 were at hand and could be shown to the hearers'). From 

 this partial accordance and constant mode of disagreement it 

 seems only fair to conclude that Linn^eus had at his disposal a 

 list of species much more numerous than that given in the Lec- 

 tures, and that this list had been compiled from the schedules 

 of the descriptive catalogue of the Queen's cabinet he had drawn 

 up a few mouths before. It is verv probable that the Hanley 

 ]MS is a copy of this list. It would be of great interest to 

 have it piiblished as it is, unaltered. 



Of the species given Linn^eus dictated short diagnoses, for 

 a smaller uumber in Swedish, while for the greater number 

 he gavc the - character essentialis> partly in a few Latin words 

 and partly in Swedish. In most instauces the Latin phrase 

 is the same as in the Hanley ^IS, though sometimes shorter, 

 and gives the impression of having been extracted from the 

 ;^diiferentia» or of being derived from that and the >descriptio» 

 in the M. L. U., such as these were worded primitively, ha- 

 ving, for instance, »pone» for »postice», »os» for »apertura» and 

 »faux». The folloAving are some examples: 



:>6. Gigas, for it is Ihe biggest of all the Volutie. Voluta 

 subemarginala, basi riigosa, spira planiuscula raucronata. Gualt. t. 

 21, f. B\ is white with dark bluish spets.» 



»8. Pantliera, is like a Panther. Voluta fusca, maculis albis 

 ovatis. Gualt. t. 22, f. D. Eesembles outwardly a black-piulding 

 witl) plenty of lumps of fat sliiniug through the skin.» 



»15. Dräp d'or. Coiinus aureus, Connus aulicus, for it is wliite 

 and, as it were, »chamarré» by its waved yellow lines. Voluta picta 

 venis reticulatis maculisque luteis adspersa.» 



»2. Teleseopium. Trochus exunibilicatus labio postico recurvato. 

 Argenv. 1. 14, f. B., Gualt. t. 60 f. D., long, like a nine-pin, striated, 

 inostly of an auburu colour.» 



»4. Pileus equestris, the troopers cap. Patella ungue forniccili. 

 Argenv. t. 6, f. K. Gualt. t. 'J, f, X. Easily known by the un- 



') A few rongh sketches in the margins of the notes were perhaps 

 taken from specimens thus circulated, belonging to the ^Miiseucn Academias 

 Upsaliensis»; see S. N. 1758: Ratio Bditionis, and the dissertation: Instruc- 

 tio Musei, '* ,, 53, Am. Acad. III, p. 446. The letters M. U. in LiNN-EUS' 

 own collection no doubt mean Museum Upsaliense, not Museum Ulricae, 

 an apellation never seen in his writings or his letters. 



