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Solarium biangulatum (n.s.) Testa orbiculato-conica subdepressa albida spiraliter sub-striata rufo variegata, anfractibus biangulatis supra planis infra convexis, umbilico pervio edentulo. Shell orbicular conical; spire rather depressed; whorls five spirally striated; upper part flattened, expanded, white with numerous diverging red cross lines; centre flat, nearly at right angles with the upper edge, white, with a convex thread-like rib round its base, which is distantly articulated; base of the whorls convex, red, punctured and variegated with white; axis conical, concave, white, smooth at the commencement; aperture subquadrangular; inside pearly, inner lip with an obscure tooth at the end of the umbilicus; axis one-fourth, diameter one-third, of an inch. 35.
Turbo setosus, Gmel.Sys.Nat.3594.Lam.
Hist.
7 42. Icon.Chemn.5 t.181.f.1795, 1796. 36.
Turbo torquatus, Gmel.3597.Lam.Hist.7 40. Icon.Chemn.10 293.
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