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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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V. MERETRIX. _Cun._ subcordatus glaber, labris gibbis, nymphis apice
hiantibus.
_C. vulgatus_ was the name originally designed.
V. CASTRENSIS. Cun. suborbiculatus glaber, characteribus scriptus.
V. MEROE. _Cun._ sutura postica hians.
V. FIMBRIATA. _Cun._ subrotundus decussatus rugosus, longitudinaliter
striatus.
D'Argenville was not referred to.
V. RETICULATA. _Cun._ subcordatus, striis crenatis decussatis, ano
cordato.
V. tigerina. Cun. suborbiculatus, striis crenatis decussatis, ano ovato.
The name was an error, having been derived from the "Lingua tigerina" of
Rumphius (his figure G., not H.): _fuliginosus_ was the one originally
intended.
V. PROSTRATA. _Pho._ orbiculata, transverse striata, labiis
scabro-membranaceis.
The unpublished details had been previously referred to in the
'Systema.'
V. PENNSYLVANICA. _Pho._ glabra, rugosa, antice sulco longitudinali.
"Habitat in Pennsylvania," and "subdiaphana," were the unprinted
additions. The "margo interne crenatus," "nates sub-recurvatæ," and
"color intus versus marginem violaceus," were not in the copy. The last
character (so utterly inappropriate to the features of _Lucina P._) was,
I suspect, intended for _punctata_ on the page opposite.
V. INCRUSTATA. _Pho._ glaberrima lævissima, punctis excavata.
The details were referred to in the 'Systema' before their publication.
V. PUNCTATA. _Pho._ longitudinaliter sulcata.
The G in the reference to Rumphius was a misprint for the written
D, from which figure ("Chama pectinata") our author had proposed to
borrow the specific name, but subsequently had preferred the published
designation. "Klein, 147. Actinobolos æquilatera" has been added to the
MS. by Linnæus.
V. EXOLETA. _Pho._ decussatim striata.
The original synonymy and details have been so transmuted in the
press, that it is manifest that the amended (!) species was perfectly
distinct from the shell originally designed. The name of the latter was
_clathrata_, and the declared sculpture was not merely "transversim,"
but "et longitudinaliter" likewise (in place of "striis retrorsis"). The
reference (added by Linnæus) was not to Gualtieri, but to Lister, 335,
f. 172, and its copy in Klein (t. 10. f. 52), both which would have more
appropriately been assigned to _V. reticulata_. The _V. exoleta_ having
been previously defined in the 'Systema,' this confusion becomes of
little importance.
V. ZICZAC. _Pho._ striis transversis membranaceis erectis.
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