BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANUL. BAND 13. AFD. IV. N:0 5. 175 



Ecliinoids into his inanusciipt of thc M. L. U., and afterwards^ 

 wlien preparing the tentli edition of the S. N. in 1757, abrid- 

 ged this quotation. 



GuALTiERi'.s t. 110, f. D, represents a species unknown to 

 LiXN.EUS, which in timo becanie the Clypeaster scutiformis 

 Lamck. 



LiJTKEN who took care to consult tlie ^\. L. U., long ago 

 liad a presentiment tliat it would be rational to give the name 

 of reticulatus L. to the species with thc habitat: »Oceanus 

 Americanus», and the name rosaceus to the Ch placunarius 

 AucT., a view that has becu sino-ularlv contirmed bv the pre- 

 sence of the type specimen of the latter in the Qiicen's Ca- 

 binet; and by the emeudation of its diagnosis. When LiN- 

 NjEUS in 1752 described that Asiatic species as his E. rosaceus, 

 he was unacquainted with the American one,and subjoined vmder 

 the former all figures at hand, that bv their general character 

 appeared to associate with it. Låter he added Klein, t. 17, 

 f. A, and t. 18, f. B, which represent his E. reticulatus, and 

 lastly, in the 8. N. cd. 12, 1767, the two figures in Seba, t. 

 11, f. 2, o, of which it is expressly stated that the former is 

 from Asia, the latter from America. There can, however, be 

 no doubt that botli represent tlie well-known West Indian 

 species: 



Clypeaster reticulatus L. 



Sloane, Jamaica, t. 242, f. G, 7, 8, 9 et 10, 11. orig., 1725. 



— Klein, Disp. p. 21): Scutuin angulare huniile, (i), t. 17, f. A^ t. 18, 

 f. B, orig., 1734. — Klein, gäll., p. 85, t. 9, f. B, imit. Klein, 1754. 



— Seba, Thes., 1. 11, f. 2, 3, orig., 1759. — Knorr, De]., t. Dl, 

 f. 12, orig., 1778. 



1758. Echinus reticulatus L. S. X. ed. lU, p. 666. 



17(U. :\I. L. U., p. 714. 

 17ti7. S. N. cd. 12, p. 1104. 

 » » » 1770. HouTTUYN, Xatuurl. Hist., 



XIV, p. 524, t. 114, f. 7, orig. 

 » > » 1775. St. Muller, Xatursyst., VI, 



p. 154, t. 8, f. 7, imit. 

 Houttuvn. 

 1816. Clypeaster rosaceus (i)öH L.) Lamarck., Au. s. v., III, p. 



14, excl. var. 



