STROMBUS.
This genus, rendered more natural by the omission of S. lividus and ater (assigned to Turricula), appeared under the designation of Harpago with the following definition:—
Testa depressa, nodosa. Apertura longitudinalis. Labium antice dilatatum ultra basin.
The Strombi of the manuscript were the young of this genus (erased by Linnæus) and certain Lamarckian Fusi, Pyrulæ, and Fasciolariæ.
S. chiragra. Har. labii spinis lævibus 6, extimis recurvis, fauce striata.
"Bar. Icon. 327. f. 1." was an additional synonym.
S. scorpius. Har. labii spinis nodosis 7, fauce striata.
The published account was enlarged by the following passages, which are not to be found in the written copy: "crenulato cincta", "lato, brevi", "s. incarnata", "s. testaceo-nebulosus". "Distinctum" was originally "obscuro", and "repandus, inflexus" was "denticulatus."
S. lambis. Har. labii spinis lævibus 7, fauce lævi.
"Bar. Icon. t. 1326. f. 7" was the synonym omitted in printing. The name was borrowed from d'Argenville.
S. millepeda. Har. labii spinis lævibus 10.
"Anteriora" was "posteriora" in the manuscript.
S. lentiginosus. Har. labio inermi integro rotundato, angulis pluribus nodosis.
The "aut marginatum" was "fragile, diaphanum", so that a young shell appears to have furnished the materials for description.
S. gallus. Har. labio inermi mucronato, cingulo dorsali spinoso.
S. Auris-Dianæ. Har. labio inermi muricato, cauda recurva, lobo incurvato.
The "32. f. II." was a misprint for the written "17. f. O." The printed additions are "usque" and "Color testaceo et albido nebulosus."
S. pugilis. Har. labio inermi obtuso, spira spinosa distincta, basi emarginata.
"Nitida", and "sed spira albida", were not found in the original.
S. Luhuanus. Har. labio obtuso, antice posticeque emarginata.
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.
Testa gibba, maxima, magnitudine capitis. Cauda obtusa. Spira spinis patentibus, subulatis, validis. Anfractus desinens in dorso spina. Series in dorso spinarum maximarum ferme conicarum. Labium dilatatum, rotundatum, spira longius, vix adnatum spiræ. Faux glabra, nitida, incarnata. Color pallidus.
The Strombus dentatus? was also defined (without a specific appellation) by the following characters:—
Har. labio dentato, testa lævis, plicato-nodosa.
Testa simillima reliquis, longitudine articuli digiti, lævis, flavescens, subplicata, plicis antice acuminatis nodis. Spira acutiuscula, similiter plicata, nodosa. Labium exterius minus dilatatum, postice margine dentatum et interne fuscum, striatum. Labium internum crassum, integrum, læve.
The Strombus palustris, although not published until the twelfth edition of the 'Systema,' had been already defined in the 'Museum' as Turricula cornea.
Tur. decussatim rugosa, labio dilatato.
Rumph. 101. t. 30. f. Q. Strombus palustris.
Testa crassa, rudis, pyramidalis, cornea aut plumbea, anfractibus 12 et ultra, secundum spiras transversim aliquot striis exarata, longitudinaliter subplicata, adcoque sine spinis rugosissima. Labium dilatatum, rotundatum, concavum, edentulum.