BULLA.
Testa subrotunda, inflata, lævis. Apertura oblonga, non utrinque dentata. Spira obsoleta. Columella obliqua.
The Murex ficus and rapa of the printed edition were originally located in this genus, from which Auris Midæ, Auris Judæ, and achatina were excluded: the two former were placed in Morion, the last in Buccinum.
B. ovum. B. birostris, labio dentato.
"Arg. t. 21. f. A." "Pet. Gaz. t. 94. f. 7." "Pet. Amb. t. 8. f. 6." were additional references in the written copy: "magnitudine ovi gallinacei", "apice et basi producta", were emendations during the printing. The "dilatata" was originally modified by a "parum."
B. volva. B. birostris, rostris elongatis striatis.
"List. t. 711. f. 63" had been added to the copy by the hand of Linnæus. The mode of reference (not, as in the earlier writings, by sections and chapters) evinces that this addition was, in all probability, subsequent to the publication of the work.
B. verrucosa. B. angulata, aucta utrinque puncto osseo.
The correct synonyms of "Arg. t. 21. f. M." and "Pet. Gaz. t. 97. f.22." were found in the manuscript: the printed emendations were, "magnitudine ovi passerini", "uti anterius", and "granis duobus" for the earlier "punctis."
B. gibbosa. B. angulata, cingulo elevato.
"Bonan. 249", "List. t. 711. f. 64", "Pet. Gaz. t. 15. f. 5", were cited in the copy: "præcedentis magnitudine", "solidiorque", with the modification of "cylindrica" by a preceding "sub", were press emendations.
B. naucum. B. rotundata pellucida.
The size was not at first mentioned.
B. ampulla. B. rotundata opaca.
The printed "nulla" replaced the earlier "descendens, nuda", and "pallido-testacea" the written "albida." The "antice, nullus vero postice" was an emendation of the press.
B. physis. B. spira obtusa, lineis crispata.
"Sæpe", "hiansque", "tenue", and the name, are not to be found in the written copy: "apicem" was the reading for the printed "ventrem, aduatum."
B. amplustre. B. spira elevata, fasciis incarnatis.
B. pallida. B. spira elevata acuta, corpore cylindrico.
So very many changes has this puzzling species experienced in the works of our author, that it has been thought advisable to transcribe the written description from the manuscript copy:—
Testa ovato-cylindrica, glabra. Spira convexo-conica, mucronata. Columella multum torta. Color lividus, longitudinaliter grisco undulatus.
This evidently was a very different shell from the four-plaited, pale pink, and often variegated specimen described in the printed copy. The description of the outer lip, the name, and the terms "solida", "lævigata, obsoletior" were, likewise, additions of the press.
B. canaliculata. B. cylindrica lævis, spiræ anfractibus canaliculatis.
The entire account of this species was added to the manuscript in the Linnean handwriting.
B. achatina. Buc. glabrum, apertura integra.
"Colum. Aphr. 18. t. 16" was the omitted synonym: "vel inæqualiter ovata" and the entire account of the base (merely described as "vix manifeste emarginata") were the printed additions.
B. Auris-Midæ. Morion ovali-oblongum, spira rugosa, labio interiore bidentato.
Figure 122 of Klein's seventh plate was correctly quoted as illustrative: "crudæ" preceded "niger."
B. Auris-Judæ. Morion oblongus, spira lævi, labio interiore tridentato.
B. solidula. B. ovata opaca striata, spira elevata.
I do not doubt, from the "ovata", that Tornatella flammea was the shell originally here intended; for the inharmonious account of the inner lip (as well as of the outer one) was not found in the manuscript,—from which, too, the erroneous reference to Bonanni was at first absent. The "acutiuscula" was "obtusiuscula": the "postice rotundata, antice acuta" was an improvement upon the earlier "pone gibba."
B. livida. B. spira elevata obtusa, corpore cylindrico.
This heading makes no mention of the columellar plication of the shell so named in the 'Systema,' and confirms my surmise of their distinctiveness. The name livida was not originally attached to the description, but had been added (together with "obsoletis") by Linnæus, from a mistaken identification.
There has evidently been some error in the comparison with Voluta Caffra. I suspect that Conus bullatus was meant, as the contrasting characters answer admirably. "Differt a B. pallida et livida, quod testa solida—anfractus spiræ canaliculati". This passage shows that "fragilis et spiræ anfractus obtusæ" referred to livida, not to Caffra.