The original synonymy and details have been so transmuted in the
press, that it is manifest that the amended (!) species was perfectly
distinct from the shell originally designed. The name of the latter was
_clathrata_, and the declared sculpture was not merely "transversim,"
but "et longitudinaliter" likewise (in place of "striis retrorsis"). The
reference (added by Linnæus) was not to Gualtieri, but to Lister, 335,
f. 172, and its copy in Klein (t. 10. f. 52), both which would have more
appropriately been assigned to _V. reticulata_. The _V. exoleta_ having
been previously defined in the 'Systema,' this confusion becomes of
little importance.