PLATE VIII. 



BUCCINUM Harpa : testa costissequilibuslongitudinalibusdistinctis 



mucronatis, columella laevigata. Linn, Syst. 

 Nat. 10. jo, 7. 38. n. 400. — Mus. Lud. Ulr. 

 609. n. 261. 



BucciNUM Harpa : testa varicibus* aequalibus"^ longitudinalibus 



distlnctis mucronatis : columella laevigata. Gmel. 

 Linn, Syst. Nat. T, 1. p. 6. 3482. n, 47- 



BucciNUM Testudo. Soland. MSS. 

 Harpa. Rumpf. Must, S^.f. K. L. M. 

 Harpa Nobilis Argenv. Condi, t, 11. f. JD- 



This superb shell, admitted to be the finest example of its 

 kind, at present known, once constituted part of the Conchological 

 Collection of Sir Ashton Lever ; and continued to be a distinguished 

 ornament of that Museum after it passed into the hands of Mr. Par- 

 kinson. At the dissolution of that Museum, which took place in the 

 month of May, June, and the beginning of July, in the year 1806, 



* " Tes\a varicibus sequalibus longitudinalibus, &c." is an incorrect reading 

 of Professor Gmelin. If we examine the Linnzean description of the Museum 

 of the Queen of Sweden, JIus. Lud. Ulr. to which Gmelin refers, we shall find 

 it to be as might be naturally expected, " testa coslis aequalibus for it is the ribs, 

 and not for veins that Linnaeus intended. Linnaeus refers to the 10th edition 

 of his Systema Naturae, which is not mentioned by Gmelin, and here we again 

 meet with the same reading " testa costis Eequalibus, &c." We have been the 

 more explicit in pointing out this error, because we observe that one Concho- 

 iogist, not long since, in the absence, doubtlessly, of the moment, has translated 

 literally the Gmelinian text in describing Buccinuui Harpa. 



