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.
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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.