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Few of the details were present in the original copy, but appear
to have been added, to discriminate the species from the allied
_gibberulus_. "Spira obtusa brevis" was added by the hand of Linnæus;
"sæpe subplicati", "postice lobo obsoleto instructum", "intus",
"Columella nigricans", "Cauda nulla, sed postice emarginata", were all
absent from the MS.
S. GIBBERULUS. _Har._ labio inermi dorso lævi, spira repanda.
The printed additions are "subtus planiuscula", "læves", "fuscum", and
the final remark.
S. LATISSIMUS. _Har._ labio inermi rotundato, spira subnodosa
breviore, dorso lævi.
S. EPIDROMIS. _Har._ labio inermi dilatato, dorso lævi, spira
subnodosa.
The _S. epidromis_, as it originally stood in the manuscript, was a
recognizable species, and precisely identical with the shell so named
in the 'Systema'; for the erroneous reference to Gualtieri was not
present, neither was "carinato," nor any of the discordant details
from "interius" to the termination. As the printed description now
stands, it would suit _S. emarginatus_ or _succinctus_, at the least,
equally well. I doubt not our author, when correcting the press,
forgot his own species, and added the partial essentials of one
species to those of another.
S. CANARIUM. _Har._ labio inermi dilatato, dorso spiraque lævibus.
The erroneous reference to plate 37 of Rumphius was not present in the
written copy, which contains the additional synonyms of "Pet. Gaz.
t. 98. f. 11", and "Klein, t. 4. f. 73": the latter was not there
originally. The early description has been improved, in the press, by
the addition of "obovata", "Faux lævis, alba", and "longitudinaliter
subundulatus."
S. VITTATUS. _Har._ labiis inermibus, spiræ anfractibus vitta
interstinctis.
S. URCEUS. _Har._ labiis inermibus striatis, dorso nodoso.
The erroneous reference to Gualtieri was not present in the original,
but in place of it the 37. W. of Rumphius (_S. mutabilis_): "Spira
testa brevior, plicato-subnodosa" was, likewise, absent. "Klein,
49, urceus fimbriatus" (a name for Rumph. t. 37. f. F & W) was
interpolated by our author.
S. ATER. _Turricula_ labiata.
Neither the reference to Rumphius, nor the "et postice emarginatum"
were found in the original. This confirms my expressed belief that the
Museum species (to which no name was at first attached) was distinct
from that of the 'Systema.'
S. LIVIDUS. _Turric._ labiata, anfractibus serie subspinosa.
This was located in a section of _Turricula_ distinguished as having
the outer lip dilated and rounded.
* * * * *
Besides the above, the following unprinted details were found in the
manuscript:--
The _Strombus gigas_ was described at length under the appellation of
_Harpago gigas_.
_Har._ labio inermi rotundato, dorso spiraque subulato-spinosis.
Gualt. t. 34. f. A. Bar. Icon. 1727. f. 7.
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