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B. PERDIX. _B._ umbilicatum subsulcatum, basi recta.
The proposed name was _B. pennatum_, adopted from Rumphius:
"lunari-patula" was not in the manuscript.
B. POMUM. _B._ exumbilicatum, labio utroque dentato.
"Barr. Ic. t. 1325. f. 12" (cited in the 'Systema'), and "Klein, 95.
Semicassis, striata, costosa", were the additional synonyms of the
manuscript: "s. sulcata", "nullum, interne", "at vero in adultioribus
accrescit planum album", were subsequent emendations.
B. DOLIUM. _B._ emarginatum subsulcatum rugosum, labio exteriore reflexo
dentato.
The _Dolium fimbriatum_, or, as Deshayes prefers it, _D. Minjac_ (the
Malay name was Bia Minjac in Rumphius, who preceded Adanson), was
assuredly the shell described in the 'Museum', as the recorded dentation
of the outer lip clearly manifests. An excellent figure of it in Petiver
("Gaz. t. 99. f. 11") was cited in the original copy, where the drawing
of Gualtieri was not referred to.
B. ECHINOPHORUM. _B._ (changed to _Cassida_) tuberibus ("quaterna serie"
interpolated) nodosum.
The reference to Rumphius was correctly written 1, not I, in the
original, where "albido-flavescens" was the indicated colouring. The
printed emendations were "quadruplici s. quintuplici", instead of
"triplici", and the entire account of the aperture, which at first ran
simply as follows, "Labium exterius crassius, margine tenuiore, interne
subrugosum, obsolete dentatum."
B. TUBEROSUM. _B._ tuberibus gemina serie nodosum.
The entire published account of this species had been interpolated
by Linnæus in the written copy, with the exception of the "color
pallidus." The "nodis anterioribus" was a misprint for "nodis
acutioribus."
Gualtieri's admirable figure of the _Cassis tuberosa_ of authors was
not, however, cited, which confirms my statement that the species of
the 'Museum' was not the _Cassis_ usually so designated.
B. CORNUTUM. _Cas._ acuminibus antice cingentibus, superficic
reticulata.
The I in the reference to Rumphius was a misprint for the written 1:
"maculata" was originally "maculis griseis."
B. RUFUM. _Cas._ nodis sparsis.
"Pyri" was a misprint for the written "pugni". Neither the "maculis
fuscis" nor the "Variat tota albo colore" were originally present. The
Rumphian name _rubra_ was the one written.
B. FLAMMEUM. _Cas._ longitudinaliter striata, antice subnodosa.
To the solitary synonym our author had added "List. t. 1004. f. 69" and
"Sloan. Hist. 2. p. 242. n. 2". The final remark was not in the copy.
B. TESTICULUS. _Cas._ lævis, striis longitudinalibus, sulcis
transversalibus.
"Vix ullus" was at first "nullus": "læve" was not present.
B. DECUSSATUM. _Cas._ lævis, striis decussatis, labio exteriore
dentato.
"Bonan. Clas. 3. t. 157" was an additional synonym.
B. AREOLA. _Cas._ glabra, spira papillosa.
The erroneous references to Gualtieri, and to the figure 2 of
Rumphius, were not present in the original, nor was there any allusion
made to the sculpture of the inner lip.
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