VOLUTA.
Testa oblonga, subconvexa, basi emarginata, replicata in canalem rectum. Columella plicata oblique. Labio integro.
The genus appears to comprehend precisely the same members as in the published edition. They were arranged in sections exactly corresponding with the Lamarckian genera of Oliva, Voluta, Mitra, and Marginella.
V. porphyria. V. spira basi obliterata, labio medio retuso.
Linnæus spoilt his excellent earlier description by his attempted emendations. The interpolated "Faux sæpius rufescens" (misprinted virescens), and the reference to Gualtieri's figure O. (O. erythrostoma), formed no part of the original version.
The "Varictas fere sola est V. Olivæ" was an afterthought.
V. Oliva. V. spiræ basi reflexa.
The synonyms were thus distributed. To var a, Rumph. t. 39. f. 2, and Gualt. t. 23. f. B; to var. g, Rumph. t. 39. f. 3; to var. e, Arg. t. 16. f. R; to var. d ("Cæsius atro-undatus," not "Fusco undulatus" as printed), Rumph. t. 39. f. 4. The expressions "ponderosa" and "magis sulcatum" were not in the original.
V. Ispidula. V. spira adscendente, margine unico.
"Pet. Gaz. t. 59. f. 8," cited in the 'Systema,' was also written in the manuscript: not so the "Varietas forte præcedentis V. Olivæ." None of the drawings exhibit the produced spire, which must have resembled that of O. jaspidea. The earlier name was ispida.
V. glabella. V. ovata lævis, labii margine reflexo, basi rotundata.
The reference to Gualtieri (a doubtful figure) was not originally inserted. The intended name was V. polita.
V. Caffra. V. fusiformis lævis.
The absurdity of asserting, in relation to this and the next species, that each resembled the other, but was larger, arose from the circumstance that when our author, in revising the labours of his amanuensis, added "sed major," he omitted to erase it from the following species.
V. vulpecula. V. fusiformis angulata inermis, transversim striata.
Of the ample details the first two paragraphs only were found in the manuscript. The proposed name was V. picta.
V. plicaria. V. fusiformis, angulis antice subspinosis.
The intended appellation angulata was changed from an erroneous impression of the identity of the species with the Turricula plicata of Rumphius. "Mucronatis" and "albidus" were emendations. "Bonan. 8. f. 65" was referred to, as in the 'Systema'.
V. pertusa. V. fusiformis, labro denticulato, striata punctis pertusis.
V. denticulata was the name originally proposed for this Mitre.
V. Mitra. V. fusiformis lævis, labro denticulato.
The final paragraph was not in the manuscript, where "Bonan. 3. t. 119, 120", and "Klein, 36. Mitra episcopi", the former cited in the 'Systema', the latter a mere name, were quoted as illustrative.
V. musica. V. spinis obtusiusculis, columella plicis 8.
The reference to the letters X. and Y. of Gualtieri (neither of which are illustrative) stood not thus in the original: the characteristic Z. of that work was the figure really cited. The printed edition has been enlarged by an "ob" before "ovato" the addition of "solida", and the description of the lips.
V. vespertilio. V. spinis acutis, columella plicis 4.
The only printed additions are "ob" before "ovato", "s. glauca", and "fuscis lineis" in place of the "saturatius."
V. Æthiopica. V. spinis fornicatis cingentibus apicem papillarem.
"Habitat in mari Pacifico", "Pet. Amb. t. 7. f. 5" (copied from Rumphius, t. 31. f. B.), and "Bonan. t. 3 f. 1" (cited in the 'Systema') were the unprinted additions.
V. cymbium. The entire account of this shell was in the handwriting of Linnæus, and inserted at a later period than the mass of species. The decided reference to Gualtieri was not in the manuscript.
V. olla was not mentioned in the written catalogue.
In addition to the species published in the 'Museum,' the following were also characterized in the manuscript:—
V. faba. V. ovata, antice subplicata, labii exterioris margine reflexo, basi rotundata.
Bonan. 3. f. 49.
Testa magnitudine vix fabæ, ovalis, lævis, antice subplicata, livida, punctis fuscis aspersa. Spira testæ 1/2 brevior, subplicata. Labium exterius reflexum, basi rotundatum integrum.
This was evidently the shell so designated in the 'Systema.'
V. granulata. V. fusiformis, sulcis longitudinalibus, striisque transversalibus.
Rumph. Mus. t. 29. f. V.
Arg. Conch. t. 12. f. V.
Testa facie antecedentis, sed sulci et striæ contrariæ, fusiformis, sulcis longitudinalibus elevatis obtusis, striis transversalibus exaratis. Color cinereus, fasciis linearibus 2 rubris ex punctis. Spira longitudine ventris. Apertura præcedentis.
This was the V. sanguisuga of the 'Systema.'
The preceding species referred to was
V. lima. V. fusiformis, sulcis transversis, striisque longitudinalibus.
Rumph. Mus. t. 28. f. T.
Testa fusiformis, scabriuscula, striis longitudinalibus secundum testam, et sulcis secundum anfractus adscendentibus margine acutiusculis. Color albidus sulcis elevatis rubris—albidus sulcis elevatis flavis albo interruptis. Spira longitudine ventris. Apertura oblonga, intus alba. Basis acuta, emarginata. Labium exterius integrum; interius nullum. Columella dentibus 4 obliqius.
These features fairly enough suit the Mitra filosa, generally, and with reason, supposed to be the V. filaris of the 'Mantissa.' The cited figure however, seems M. gracilis of Reeve.