SOLAEIUM.- Plate II. 



rather elevated, sometimes depressed, wliitisli, more 

 or less stained with livid lead-colour, broadly zoned 

 and articulated with dark chestnut, whorls smooth 

 in the middle, spirally linearly grooved above and 

 below, obliquely I'ather distantly impressly striated 

 throughout, base and margin of the umbilicus arti- 

 culated with dark-brown. 



Trochns perspeclivm, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. p. 1227. 

 Solarium formosum , Hinds. 

 i%larimu zonuluiii, aimtrnle, and iiicisim/, Piiilippi. 



JIal). Amboyiia ; Australia. 



This species presents a darker, more decided spiral 

 zone of colour than any other, and the ground-tint is of a 

 more sickly asli-white, passing into a livid lead hue. 



Mr. Hinds' S. formosum is a more than usually conoid 

 form of the species, richly banded and marked. 



Species 12. (Mus. Cuming.) 



SnL.vuiUM MODESTUM. Sol. ii'sUi (li'pn'.ui conuidm, ci- 

 )ieri'u-(illji1, rwiclo-fulvesci'ntc tiiictii, nigricaiite-caslaneo 

 nmoti b'izonata, arifractibiis Ifevibiis, snperue et iriferne 

 Utieari-.snlcatis, versus apicem oblique i.mpresso-slriatis, 

 basi pallida^ vix immnnulatd, margiiic umbilici opacii- 

 eburveo. 



The modest Sol.^eium. Shell depressly conoid, asli- 

 wliite, stained with livid-fulvous, distantly two-zoned 

 with dark chestnut, whorls smooth, linearly grooved 

 abo\'e and below, oblicpiely impressly striated towards 

 tlie apex, base pale, almost unspotted, margin of the 

 inubilicus opake ivory-white. 



Philippi, Zeitschr. fiir Malak. 1848, p. 171. 



]Iab. China ; Society Islands. 



Probably a variety of the preceding species, in whicli 

 the upper zone of colour is not so broad and the lower 

 zone not articulated. The crenulated margin of the um- 

 bilicus is, moreover, opake ivory-white. 



