On the Linnean Manuscript of the 'Museum Ulricæ.' By Sylvanus Hanley, Esq., F.L.S. (continued 2)

N. mammilla. The entire account of this common shell was added in the Linnean handwriting. The inappropriate "aut lutea" was not at first present.

N. corona. N. edentula, simplici spira spinosa.

"Pet. Amb. t. 3. f. 4.", a mere copy of the Rumphian figure, was also quoted. The 19 in the reference to d'Argenville was a misprint for the written 10. N. spinosa was the intended designation.

N. radula. N. edentula sulcata, tuberculis æqualibus.

The valvata granulata of Rumphius (t. 22. f. M.) was referred to at illustrative.

N. cornea. N. edentula, obsolete striata.

N. bidens. N.

"Obsoletis" followed "duobus": the name had been written subsequent to the description.

N. virginea. N. subedentula ovata lævis.

"Dentibus pluribus minutissimis" preceded "oris"; "Pet. Gaz. t. 11. f. 3" was in the place of the delusive figure of d'Argenville: the variety d was a subsequent addition.

N. polita. N. lævis, labiis dentatis.

The 1 in the synonym of Rumphius was a misprint for the written I.

N. peleronta. N. striata, labiis dentatis, interiore planiusculo rugoso.

The erroneous synonym was added, along with the name peleronta, to the written details: N. rufa was the original appellation.

N. albicilla. N. striata, labiis subdentatis, interiore tuberculato.

N. histrio. N. sulcata, transversim striata, labio interiore dentato.

The name, and the synonym, were added by Linnæus to the written details.

N. plicata. N. sulcata, labiis profunde dentatis, interiore rotundato, exteriore utrinque dentibus acutis conicis.

The variety alluded to was a subsequent addition. The details of the 'Museum' had been quoted, in anticipation, for this species.

N. grossa. N. sulcata labiis dentatis, interiore convexo rugoso.

N. chamæleon. N. sulcata, labiis dentatis, interiore rugoso tuberculato.

"Habitat in Banda", and "compositis" after "subtilissimis", are the unprinted additions.

N. undata. N. sulcata, labiis dentatis, interiore rugoso, tuberculato.

The erroneous figure of Gualtieri was not cited when the description was drawn up, but added to the details, along with "confluentibus. Spira acuta prominens", when the present name was substituted for the earlier nebulata.

N. exuvia. N. sulcata, labiis dentatis, interiore denticulato.

HALIOTIS.

Testa univalvis, patens, convexa. Spira obsoleta, lateralis. Foramina lateralia pervia.

H. Midæ. H. subrotunda, utrinque nitida.

Humana was the intended specific appellation.

H. tuberculata. H. subovata, rugis transversis tuberculatis.

The reference to Lister was an emendation.

H. striata. H. ovata, transversim rugosa, longitudinaliter striata.

No name was attached to either this or any member of the genus, except the first.

H. varia. H. ovata, striis longitudinalibus, majoribus tuberculatis.

H. marmorata. H. ovata, striis longitudinalibus, transversis obsoletis.

H. asinina. H. oblonga, extra foramina angulata, striis elevatis.

H. parva. H. ovata, angulo inter foramina et spiram.

All the headings in this genus are similar to those in the 'Systema'.

PATELLA.

Testa conica, convexa. Spira regularis nulla vera.

The limits of this genus were precisely those of the printed edition.

P. equestris. P. ungue fornicali nutante.

P. neritoidea. P. integra ovata, apice subspirali, labio laterali.

"Supra" preceded "convexa", and the "fere" was before "apice".

P. chinensis. P. conica latior lævis, labio interno laterali.

This was an addition to the original catalogue.

P. porcellana. P. basi interne labiata, pone mucronato-subspiralis.

P. crepidula was not mentioned in the manuscript.

P. saccharina. P. margine sinuato, carinata, costis 7.

"Pet, Amb. t. 3. f. 3", and "Klein 117. t. 8. f. 4", were additional synonyms: both are in the 'Systema.'

P. barbara. P. dentata, costis 19 elevatis.

P. granularis. P. margine dentato, striis elevatis mucronibus imbricatis.

The erroneous reference to Gualtieri was not in the original.

P. granatina. P. margine angulato, striis 11 lævibus.

"Interius" was the earlier reading of "subtus".

P. tuberculata. P. dentata conica tuberculata, postice sima.

Sima was the earlier name in the MS., but was erased by Linnæus.

P. lutea. P. integerrima striata, vertice mucronato inflexo.

P. unguis. P. ovali-oblonga, apice emarginata, mucrone dorsali carinato.

Unguiformis was the intended appellation.

P. testudinaria. P. ovata glaberrima integerrima.

P. rustica. P. integra, striis 50 obtusiusculis.

P. fusca. P. ovata integerrima, striis elevatis, vertice obtuso.

The intended name was cinereo-nigricans.

P. cruciata. P. ovalis convexa integerrima, cruce picta.

P. reticulata. P. conica compressa, superficie reticulata.

The suggestion I have elsewhere made that this uncertain shell might prove the European Pedicularia, induces me to remark that, although P. Sicula has been supposed to be a comparatively modern discovery, Favanne had long ago delineated it in the fourth plate (f. H. 1.) of his enlarged edition of d'Argenville.

P. nimbosa. P. conica ovalis, costis confertis, vertice perforato.

The discrepancy between the heading borrowed from the 'Systema', and the after details, is removed by the substitution of the original one. The shell was termed perforata (not nimbosa), and was wrongly identified by Linnæus with the striated brown Fissurella of the 'Systema'.

In addition to the printed species, the two following were present in the manuscript copy.

P. solaris. P. ovata integerrima, striis subnodosis, vertice acutiusculo.

Testa ovata, diaphana, magnitudine extimi articuli digiti, margine integerrimo, lævis, striis subtilissimis inæqualibus numerosissimis, fasciis longitudinalibus rubris albo passim maculatis. Mucro acutiusculus obliquus albidus.

This was placed in the section having a simple margin.

P. perfoliata. P. conica, reclinata, perfoliata.

Testa magnitudine coryli nucis, conica, sed cono retro inclinato, acutissima, alba, imbricata lamellis horizontaliter testam cingentibus. Margo integer, ovalis, antrorsum gibbus s. dilatatus. Cavitas profunde glabra.

This description very fairly suits the Patella antiquata of the twelfth edition of the 'Systema'.

DENTALIUM.

Testa univalvis, subcylindrica, utrinque aperta. Spira regularis nulla.

Although the Serpulæ were intermingled, it is clear that they did not accord with the above definition.

D. elephantinum. D. subulatum subarcuatum, angulatum.

The synonymy of the tenth edition was appended, Lister excepted; the erroneous 13 of the reference to the Gazophylaceum was erased. Dens elephantis was the proposed trivial name.

D. entalis. D. subulato-cylindricum, subarcuatum.

The terminal details were not furnished.

D. dentalium was the intended appellation.

SERPULA.

In the original version of the 'Museum Ulricæ,' the members of this genus are not separated from the Dentalia (a proof, among many others, of the early date of this catalogue). Linnæus, however, when revising the transcript, had meditated the withdrawing of S. arenaria and lumbricalis, and constituted for them a nameless genus with the following definition:—

Testa tubulosa, isthmis concamerata, dissepimentis integris, nec perforatis, s. communicantibus.

This genus would have been the equivalent of the modern Vermetus.

S. triquetra. D. triquetrum, adhærens.

The reference to Gualtieri (whose figure was somewhat uncertain, yet probably designed for Vermilia triquetra) was queried. The proposed name was D. parasiticum.

S. contortuplicata. D. teretiusculum, depressum, rugosum.

There was at first no name to the description of this shell; but it was added in the handwriting of Linnæus.

S. glomerata. D. teres glomeratum.

The 'decussato-rugosa' of the 'Systema', applicable to the 'Vermetus subcancellatus', the shell designed in that work, was not inserted. Gualtieri's figure is that of Vermetus glomeratus, for the colouring of which 'alba' would be a most inappropriate term.

S. lumbricalis. D. spira divaricata teretiusculum, integrum.

D'Arg. t. 29. f. 1. was an additional synonym.

S. arenaria. D. teres rectiusculum intestiniforme.

Despite the name borrowed from Rumphius, the Vermetus gigas was the object defined in the tenth edition of the 'Systema'. The absence from the manuscript of the reference to Gualtieri's drawing of that shell, and "rectiusculum" in the written diagnosis, confirms the conclusion previously arrived at, that the Septaria arenaria of authors was the species intended in the 'Museum Ulricæ': it was subsequently termed S. polythalamia by Linnæus. The delusive "subangulata" of the supposititious diagnosis was of course absent.

The V. gigas was probably intended by the following unpublished description.

D. intestiniforme. D. teres flexuosum intestiniforme.

Testa rudis crassitie digiti et ultro, flexuosa vario modo in diversis, integra, intus lævis.

S. anguina.

The two very dissimilar Siliquariæ united under this appellation in the 'Museum Ulricæ,' were originally held distinct. The prickly variety was the unpublished type, and was thus defined:—

D. anguinum. D. spira inæquali angulata aculeata, sulco longitudinali perforata.

Rumph. 125. t. 41. f. H. Solen anguinus.

Lang. Test. 6. Tubulus vermicularis crista dentata.

Testa albida, teretiuscula, angulis 9 obsoletis. Anfractus inæquales, nunc confertiores, nunc remotiores. Sulcus longitudinalis in superiore latere perforatus serie punctorum. Spinæ breves, fornicatæ ad angulos in latere inferiore.

Condensation, that peculiar faculty of the mental organization of Linnæus, induced him to suppress this description, and attach the species, as a variety, to the form he had simultaneously characterized as D. spira elongata, teretiusculum, inerme, fissura longitudinali. Gualt. test. 10. f. z.

To this latter the published details belong, except the expression "passim concatenata et quasi poris pertusa" (which was a subsequent and fallacious addition), and the account of the variety.

S. penis. D. teres, extremitate radiata disco cylindris poroso.

"Bonan. i. f. 38.", indicated in the tenth edition of the 'Systema', was among the synonyms. The "Stigma, &c." was an addition; so too were "lævis," "tubulosis", and "æqualibus". The term "hemisphærico" has replaced the earlier "convexo."

In addition to the published species, the S. Spirorbis of the 'Systema' appears to have been indicated as

D. planorbe. D. spira plana, adhærens.

It. W. Goth. 170. Dentalium testa spirali plana adhærente.

Planc. Conch. 13. n. 3. Vermiculus in littore Veneto foliis algæ adhærens.

Testa minima, magnitudine nuper ab ovo exclusæ cochleæ, cujus formam omnino gerit, at plana omnino est, et altero latere omnino fuci foliis adhæret.

This was evidently different from the Serpula planorbis of the 'Systema.'