786 TROCHUS. 



Inhabits 



Shell about an inch broad, and much depressed, of a straw-co- 

 lour, witli the interstices of the longitudinal plaits brown ; 

 the longitudinal plaits, as in T. Solaris, do not extend to the 

 lower noargin of the whirls. 



SOLARIS. 66. Shell convex-conical, with marginated 

 spinous whirls, and the aperture semi-heart- 

 shaped. 



Trochus Solaris. Linnatis Si/st. Nat. p. 1229. Schroeter 



Einl. i. p. 661. Gmelin, p. 3569. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 243. 

 Variety A. With long narrow spines. 

 Trochus Solaris Indiae Orientalis. Chemnitz, v. p. 129' t. 



173. f. 1700 and 1701. 

 L'Eperon Soleil. Favanne, ii. p. 410. 1. 13. f. C 1. 

 Itumphius, t. 20. f. K. 

 Variety B. With short broader spines, 

 Trochus Solaris Indiae Occidentalis. Chemnitz, v. p. 139- 



t. 174. f. 1716 and 1717. 

 Le Grand Eperon. Favanne, ii. p. 402. 1. 13. f. C 2. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 366 and 367, and Kirch, f. 359 and 360. 



Lister Co7ich. t. 622. f. 9- Klein Ost. 1. 1. f. 19. Ktiorr, 



vi. t. 26. f. 4. Seba, iii. t. 59- f- 1 to 4. Geve. t. 20. 



f. 192 and 193. Regenfuss, ii. t. 8. f. IS and 14. 

 Inhabits the East Indies. Linnaus. Coasts of Amboyna. 

 Rnmphius. Coromandel. Chemnitz. Philippines, Mo- 

 luccas, and Isle of France. Favanne. New Zealand, China, 

 and Jamaica. Humphreys. 

 Shell one, or sometimes two inches broad, and hardly half so 

 long, and of a gold-colour, sometimes mottled with white ; 

 the lower part of the whirls is rather concave, and margi- 

 iiated, and the margin spinous. Mr. Humphreys, in the 

 Portland Catalogue, lot 36 1 6, says it has the same faculty 

 of affixing extraneous bodies to itself as T. conchy lioph or us, 

 and at lots 943 and 1846, two Varieties are mentioned, of 

 which the first has a double row of spines, and the other a 

 scarlet aperture. Schreibers has quoted Trochus helicinus, 

 of Gmelin, as a Variety of T. Solaris; and Knorr, iv. t. 6. f. 

 2, which has been quoted both by Chemnitz and Gmelin, is 

 also quoted for other shells as follows : — by Born for his 

 Turbo Tectum Persicum, which is Trochus imbricatus, and 

 by Gmelin for Turbo Calcar ; neither of the figures or the 

 descriptions of T. helicinus appear to be sufficiently accu- 



