PHILINE. 25 
P. saara d’Orbigny. PI. 4, figs. 61, 62, 63. 
Shell oblong, thin, fragile, loosely spiral, depressed, wide and 
truncate below, rather narrowed and truncate above; covered with 
spiral lines of small oblong rings placed end to end, alternating 
with a waved stria following the intervals of the rings, and giving 
the appearance of a chain (fig. 62); spire embraced, not umbilica- 
ted, but forming a projecting disk. Aperture very wide, the interior 
of all the whorls visible therein; lip thin, crenulated. Uniform 
white. Alt. 3, diam. 13 mill. (Orb.). 
Martinique on the strand (Candé) ; St. Thomas (Riise) ; off Hat- 
meteras lo fmes. (US; BF. C.): 
Bulla sagra Ors. Moll. Cuba, i, p. 123, pl. 4, f. 5-8, (1841).— 
Philine sagra Morcua., Mal. BL, xxii, p.175.—VerriL1, Tr. Conn. 
Acad., vi, p. 467, pl, 45, f. 16, 16a.—Da.u, Cat. Mar. Moll. S.-E. 
U.S., p. 88, pl. 41, f. 16, 16a. 
P. amasiuis Verrill. Unfigured. 
Shell very thin, diaphanous, delicate and shining with bright iri- 
descence; very large for the genus, and very open, showing the in- 
terior of the spire, broad oblong, with rounded ends; outer lip 
evenly rounded posteriorly and scarcely projecting beyond the spire; 
apex occupied by a shallow pit. Sculpture, conspicuous wavy lines 
of growth and microscopic wavy spiral striae over the whole sur- 
face. Length of shell 15, breadth 10 mill. Odontophore with a 
large hook-shaped inner lateral tooth on each side, and a slender 
spiniform outer one. Gizzard large, with three calcareous plates. 
Station 876, several living specimens. (Verril/, Amer. Journ. Sci. 
{3], xx, p. 398). 
Off Martha’s Vineyard, in 120 fms. 
P. cANDEANA @’Orbigny. PI. 4, figs. 70, 71, 72. 
Shell uniform white, ovate, thin, fragile, much depressed, trans- 
versely striate when viewed under a lens; spire very obtuse ; whorls 
2; columella dilated within, acute; aperture very large, dilated 
above and spreading. Alt. 12 mill. 
Guadeloupe (Candé). 
Bullea candeana Orx., Moll. Cuba, i, p. 119, pl. 4, f. 1-4.—Phi- 
line candeana Morcu, Mal. BI., xxii, p. 175. 
