170 SVEN LOVEN, ON THK ECHINOIDEA DESCRIBED BY LINN.EUS. 



same species, and thus lie "was easily betrayed into placing 

 the quotatiou of tlie Fauna Suecica under tlie E. lacunosus, 

 and tliere it is seen in the ^IS Lecture of 1752. In the låter 

 works Breyn, t. 5, fig. 1, 2, is added, a good represention of 

 the E. cordatum Penn. On the other hand this same species, 

 a.s ligured by d'Argenville t. 28 f. M., oceurs under the E. 

 Spatagus in one of the MS Lccturcs but not in the others, 

 — as if »the Archiater» had corrected a fiist and wrona" dic- 

 tation, — and then the reference to it disappears altogether, 

 while the quotation: Fauna Succioa. 1290, with Lister, 

 App., are transferred from the E. lacunosus to the E. Spata- 

 gus, whcre also Klein, the French edition, t. 28, and a figure 

 in GiNANNi, are added, both rcpresenting the Echinocardium 

 cordatum Penn. Jt is obvious that Li.nn^-us was to the last 

 imdecided as to which of his two Spatangi this species might 

 be supposed to aproach, and left the matter in suspenso. Otto 

 Frederic Mueller ') found at E»röbak in Xorway the Echino- 

 cardium cordatum, and, apparently not having an opportunitj 

 of Consulting the description in the Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, 

 took it for the E. lacunosus of LiXN^us, and sent a specimen 

 thus labelled to Leske, who fiourcd it, t. o8 f. f., under the 

 erroneous name of Spatangus pusillus. 



In the Lecture Linn^us added: >in a petrified state this 

 species oceurs on sea-shores, showing the arece quite distinctly». 

 He thus alludes to the tertiary fossils from the Isle of Malta 

 and elsewhere in the Mediterranean •\vhich in our days have 

 been described by Desmoulins and Wright as Schizaster 

 Scillse, Desori, Parkinsoni etc.-). To such fossils, often seen 

 in old collections, the quotation refers from Klein, the French 

 edition, thoiigh perverted by misprints and probably to be 

 read: t. 13, f. A, B, t. 15, f. B. At the former place, Ger- 

 man ed. t. XXIIl* f. A, B, C, Klein had figured his »Meliten- 

 sia», referring to Scilla, t. 7, f. 1, and at the latter, Germ. ed., 

 t. XX\ II f. A, Si somewdiat largcr form received from Italy. 



') Zoologia Danica, I, Danish letterpress of 1781, p. 19, footnote 

 under Spatanatns purpureus. 



^) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., sec. ser., XV, p. 52. 



