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Author: Jan Delsing
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Shell obicularly convex, imperforate, obliquely finely striated from above downwards and backwards with strait striae, and on the last two whorls from behind forwards with interrupted malleated strise, of a dull opaque white color, apex pink, variously ornamented with irregular dark chestnut spots, or with two or more regular broad bands; spire bluntly coniform ; whorls 5, slightly convex, last sharply keeled and shortly deflected in front, base flattened ; aperture quadrilateral, beaked at the periphery of the last whorl, margins joined by a thin pink callus; peristome pink, narrowly reflexed; columella broadly dilated, blending with the pink callus joining the margins, and including the umbilicus. ( Cox.) Alt. 0,72, greater diam. 1,09, lesser 0,84 inch.
Solomon Is.
Differs from P. eros in being larger, and imperforate.
Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A.. Manual of Conchology. Second Series. Volume 7.