PHILINE. 23 
Aun. Mag. N. H. (5), vi, p. 318; Rep. Br. Asso., 1873, p. 114, as 
Utriculus striatulus. See Nuova Rivista, p. 48, and Journ de Conch. 
1874, p. 281. 
Still undescribed, unless the preceding note by Monterosato be 
called a description ; and originally mentioned as a Utriculus by in- 
advertence. Reported thus far from off coast of Algeria 207 fms. 
(Jeffr.), Palermo and St. Vito, 90-200 meters (Monts.), and Bay of 
Biscay (Jeffr.). 
P. virrEA Monterosato. Undescribed; unfigured. 
Palermo, 90 meters. 
Nuova Rivista, p. 48. A nude and preoccupied name. 
P. rnFUNDIBULUM Dall. Unfigured. 
In the multiplicity of species of Philine this one is best described 
by a comparative diagnosis. The soft parts externally are whitish, 
and resemble P. quadrata and P. finmarchica as figured by G. O. 
Sars. It is nearest P. quadrata so far as shell characters go, and 
belongs to the group of species which have the spire entirely im- 
mersed and the posterior junction of the outer lip descending upon 
it in asort of spiral. The shell is thin, pellucid, and finely closely 
spirally striate. It differs from that of P. quadrata chiefly by its 
larger size and the much smaller proportion wrapped in the body- 
whorl. The soft parts though larger, are remarkably like those of 
P. quadrata, but in that species the ventricular plates are wanting. 
In the present species they are present and of large size, the large 
(right) plate being lozenge-shaped, whitish and slightly concave on 
the side of insertion, covered with a convex, polished nearly smooth 
brown coating on the interior, which is generally worn away by 
friction toward the center. The small plates are nearly the shape 
of half the large one partly hollow and without granules. They 
resemble on the whole, the plates of P. angulata Jeffreys as figured 
- by Sars (loe cit., t XII, fig. 16d), but are larger, longer, and more 
pointed at the extremities. The adult shell comprises about two 
whorls, maximum length 12:0, max. breadth 9.0 mm. The large 
plate measures about 4°0x8°0 mm. The axis of the shell is wound 
in a wide pervious spiral, and the body-whorl viewed from below 
extends about half way across the base from side to side, and two- 
thirds the distance from the apex to the front edge. (Dall, Blake 
Gastr., Bull. M. C. Z., xviii, p. 57, 1889). 
