PHILINE. 213 



Oeiiiis PIIILIIVE, Aso. 1772. 



Animal investing the slicll. Eyes, none. Foot, not produced 

 posteriorly, the side lobes large and fleshy. Shell concealed in the 

 mantle, loosely convolute, thin, fragile, sub-orbicular or ovate, stri- 

 ate, or punctate ; spire small, often concealed ; aperture very wide 

 and open ; outer lip patulous. 



Philine sinuata. 



PhiUne sinuata, Stimpsox, Proc. Bost. Soc. iii. 333 (1850) ; Shells of New England, 51, 

 pi. 1, fig. 7 (1851) ; Check Lists, 4 (1860). 



Shell minute, ovate, white, pellucid, longitudinally striate ; spire 

 conspicuous ; aperture anteriorly dilated. Length, 

 seven one hundredths of an inch ; breadth, five one '^' 



hundredths of an inch. 



The animal is two tenths of an inch in length, 

 oblong, elongated, convex posteriorly, of a yellow- 

 ish color, darkest behind, with dots and patches of 

 white. The reflected pedal lobes are rather nar- 

 row, and terminate near the middle of the part oc- „ . 



" ' p. sinuata. 



cupied by the shell. At the posterior extremity 

 a cavity is formed by the mantle, which is digitated and arched ; 

 within this cavity the anus is situated, and its lower margin has a 

 notch at the centre. 



The ova are deposited during the latter part of August. They 

 are minute, white, and enveloped in a gelatinous mass, which is 

 globular, hyaline, slightly tinged with yellowish, and somewhat 

 larger than the animal itself. 



Several specimens of this species were obtained by dredging in 

 Broad Sound, Boston Bay, at the depth of from four to seven fathoms 

 on a sandy bottom (^Stimpson). 



Philine quadrata. 



Philine qmdrata, Searles Wood, Mag. Nat. Hist. New Scries, iii. 461, pi. 7, fig. 1 (1839). 



— Forbes and Hanlev, Brit. Moll. iii. 541, pi. 114, E, figs. 2, 3. — Stimpson, 



Check Lists, 4 (1860). 

 Philine formosa, Stimpsox, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, iii 334 (1850); Shells of New 



England, 51 (1851). 



Shell minute, squarely globose, sub-truncated anteriorly, white, 

 shining, sub-opaque, thickened posteriorly, punctured with inequi- 



