BULLA, SCAPHANDER, PHILINE. 101 
Buta; Klein. 
Bulla utriculus, Brocchi. 
Bulla Cranchii, Leach, id. Forbes and Hanley ; Bulla punc- 
tura, Johnston ; Bulla striata, Brown. 
Habitat—Alive in 18 to 30 fathoms in muddy sand and 
gravel, off Little Cumbrae, between the Castle and Light- 
house, and on the rough bank off Shellbole Bay, Cumbrae. 
In Bute I have taken it on Bogany Point, and it occurs 
between Toward Point and Innellan; a scarce shell, only one 
or two examples obtained at each locality. 
British distribution —Throughout all our seas; widely 
distributed, but never plentiful. 
Foreign localities—Norway and western Europe, and as 
far as the Canaries. It inhabits all the Mediterranean, the 
Adriatic, and Augean Seas ; Massachusetts (as Cylichna oryza, 
Totten, fide J. G. Jeffreys). 
ScAPHANDER, De Montfort. 
(2 *) Scaphander lignarius, Linné. 
Bulla lignaria, Linné. 
Habitat—Rather common in 8 to 20 fathoms on muddy 
sand and gravel off Garroch Head, Mountstuart, Ascog, and 
Craigmore, Bute; in Millport Bay, on the Tan Spit, and off 
Kames Bay, Cumbrae ; off Silvercraigs and Otter Spit, Loch 
Fyne; and probably throughout the district. Dr. Lands- 
borough says that it can be got in Lamlash Bay by digging 
in the sand at ebb tide. 
British distribution—Common throughout all our seas, 
chiefly in the Coralline zone ; occasionally taken by fishermen 
on their lines. 
Foreign localities—From Norway throughout western 
Europe, the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Algean Seas, 
PHILINE, Ascanius. 
Philine scabra, Miiller. 
Bulla scabra, Miller; Bulla pectinata, Dillwyn; Bullea 
granulosa, Sars. 
Habitat—In muddy sand in about 8 to 18 fathoms. I 
have taken it on the Tan Spit, Cumbrae; off Ascog and 
