PHILINE. ii 
in height ; outer corner rounded; inner corner receding and acute 
angled; inner lip broad and rather thick on the upper part, occa- 
sionally forming in the middle a tooth-like process or fold (in one 
specimen converted into a cluster of minute pearls), behind which 
is a distinct umbilical groove or depression. (Jeffr.). 
Alt. 6 mill. 
Northern British Seas; Norway. 
Bulla pruinosa CuaRK, Zool. Journ., iii, p. 339.— Philine pruinosa 
Forbes & Hanley, Hist. Brit. Moll., iii, p. 549, pl. 114, f. 1, 2.— 
JEFFREYS, Brit. Conch., iv, p. 454; v, pl. 96, fig. 6—Sars, Moll. 
‘Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 301, pl. 18, f. 8a, b, e—B. (Philine) pruinosa 
Ap., in Thes., p. 600, pl. 125, f. 162.—P. pruinosa Sows., in C. Icon. 
f. 10.—Laona pruinosa Ap., Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), xv, p. 324.— 
Philine granulosa M. Sars, teste G. O. Sars. 
The latticed sculpture distinguishes this species from others of the 
N. Atlantic. 
Var. dilatata Jeffreys. Nearly smooth, more expanded and some- 
what angular at the sides, and abruptly attenuated towards the 
crown. Alt. °75, diam. ‘05 inch. (Jeffr.). 
Section JOHANIA Monterosato. 
Johania Monts., Nomenclature Generica e Specifica di alcune 
Conchiglie Mediterranee, p. 147, type B. retifera Forbes=B. vestita 
Phil. (1884). 
P. vestita Philippi. PI. 4, figs. 66, 67, 68. 
Shell oblong, loosely convoluted, tapering towards the spire; 
lacking transverse strisee; brown, covered with a white net-work ; 
spire truncated, umbilicate. Alt. 10, diam. 6 mill. (Phil.). 
Palermo and St. Vito (Monts.) ; dgean Sea (Forbes). 
Bulla vestita Paiu., Enum. Moll. Sicil., ii, p. 95, pl. 20, f. 4, 
(1844).— Bulla (Scaphander) vestita A. Ap. in Thes. Conch., p. 574, 
pl. 121, f. 48.—S. vestita Sows. C. Icon., f. 7.— Bulla retifer ForBEs, 
Rep. Ag. Invert., in Rep. Brit. Asso. Adv. Sci. for 1843, p. 187, 
(1844).—Philine retifera Monts., Journ. de Conch., 1874, p. 281. 
Peculiar in its netted ornamentation. The name given by Phil- 
ippi was accompanied by figures. The preface of the Enumeratio 
Molluscorum Sicilie bears date ‘ August, 1843,” while the title page 
