238 SCAPHANDRID&, PHILINIDZ. 
closely placed. Aperture largely embracing, lengthened, narrow 
and subangular at base, which is longer than spire, more dilated 
and rounded above; columella narrow, elevated, a little twisted, the 
lower columellar margin strongly convex toward its middle; umbil- 
icus small, circular, narrow and profound. 
Alt. 23, diam. 1 mill. ( Vél.). 
Island of St. Paul, inside the crater, under stones at low water. 
Bulla fragilis VELAIN, Comptes Rend., 1876; Archiv. Zool. Ex- 
pér. et Génér., vi, 1877, p. 128, pl. 4, f. 31—B. dive Velain, t. ¢., p. 
144. 
Looks like a young shell. 
Family PHILINIDZ (Vol. xvi, p. 1). 
Genus PHILINE Asc. (Vol. xvi, p. 2). 
The references to Colobocephalus and Colpodaspis should be 
omitted from the generic and specific descriptions and references, as 
it was deemed best to admit both as genera, pending definite infor- 
mation on those forms. Add the following: 
P. trncTA Verrill. 
Shell broad, oblong, rather large for the genus, widest in the 
middle, very thin, tinged with smoky brown, not polished and with- 
out distinct spiral lines, but with very distinct, fine, close, sinuous, 
slightly raised, minutely wavy lines of growth. The apex is rounded 
and shows neither spiral whorls, nor a depression. The outer lip 
rises slightly above the body-whorl from which it is separated by a 
broad and deep notch; from the posterior shoulder to the anterior 
end it is broadly flaring and convex, with a slight-reunded angle 
about the middle; anteriorly it is a little narrower and evenly 
rounded ; the columella margin is slightly excurved, with a thin 
edge in front of the middle, and is reflected against the body-whorl, 
where it joins it leaving a slight groove behind it, and winding into 
the shell it forms a distinct, raised spiral fold, separated from the 
more prominent inner surface of the body-whorl by a concave 
groove. 
Length, 10°75; breadth in middle, 8; breadth of aperture, 7 mill. 
(Verrill). 
Off Marthas Vineyard, in 65 fms. (“Albatross ”’). 
P. tincta V., Tr. Conn. Acad., v, p. 544 (July, 1882). 
