SOLARIL'-M— Plate I. 



Hinds, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1S44, p. 2.-). Moll. Toy. Sulph. 



p. 49. pi. 14. f. ], 2. 



Solarium atellatum, Philippi. 

 Hnb. Moluccas. 



Marked ia a characteristic manner next the suture 

 with duplicated blotches of colour, and at the base with 

 radiating streaks. 



Species 6. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cuming.) 



SoL.\KIUM FCLlGlNOSUil. Sol. ieild late conoided, litido- 

 albida, macidli ohlongo-quadralii fidigineo-fascis niar- 

 ginatd el compicui oblique temellatd, anfraclVmi in- 

 ferioribus latigatii, ad spiram oblique plicatis, ad 

 peripheriam carinatk et arliculale chigulath, ad basin 

 nilidi articidatk, uiidjilico mbpatulo, crenuli-s validis 

 rufo-fuscis marginato. 



The dcskt Solariuji. Shell broadly conoid, livid- 

 white, margined and conspicuously obliquely tessel- 

 lated with oblong-square dusky-brown blotches, 

 lower whorls smooth, obliquely plicated at the spire, 

 keeled and articulately belted at the periphery, neatly 

 articulated at the base, umbilicus rather open, mar- 

 gined with strong red-brown crenoles. 



Hinds, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1S44; p. 1.58. 

 Solariuiii maculatuiu. Reeve. 

 Solarium Hanleyi, Sowerby. 



Hab. ? 



Conspicuously distinguished by its ornamental painting 

 of oblique oblong square blotches of colour. S. Hanleyi, 

 described from the single specimen represented at Fig. 

 6 a, is a young shell in which the spire is abnormally de- 

 pressed, and the base, by a correlation of growth, made 

 convex. 



