Note 5 — CONCHOLOGY. PLATE VIII. BUCCINUM HARPA var TESTUDO TORTOISESHELL HARP BUCCINUM. Univalve.

“Testa varicibus æqualibus longitudinalibus, &c.” is an incorrect reading of Professor Gmelin. If we examine the Linnæan description of the Museum of the Queen of Sweden, Mus. Lud. Ulr. to which Gmelin refers, we shall find it to be as might be naturally expected, “testa costis æqualibus;” for it is the ribs, and not for veins that Linnæus intended. Linnæus refers to the 10th edition of his Systema Naturæ, which is not mentioned by Gmelin, and here we again meet with the same reading “testa costis æqualibus, &c.” We have been the more explicit in pointing out this error, because we observe that one Conchologist, not long since, in the absence, doubtlessly, of the moment, has translated literally the Gmelinian text in describing Buccinum Harpa.