PHILINE. ,547 



The animal resembles that of scabra in shape, but has 

 the posterior margin of the mantle more entire. It is of a 

 yellow or yellowish white hue, with tawny dots. 



This species is sparingly distributed all through the 

 British seas, and, though local, is yet so general, that an 

 enumeration of localities would be superfluous. It ranges 

 from low water-mark to as deep as forty fathoms. 



P. PUNCTATA, Clark. 



Minute ; sculpture consisting of spiral series of interrupted 

 compressed dots. 



Plate CXIV. E. tig. 8, 9, and (Animal) Plate U. U, fig. 6. 



iiullaa ]ju/wta(a, Clark (not Moi.ler), Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. '63D. — Tukt. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. p. 353. — Macgilliv. Moll. Aberd. 



p. 1 87.— Brit. Marine Conch, p. 137. — Brown, Illust. Conch. 



G. B. p. 58. 

 Bulla {J'hiline) punctata, A. Adams, Sow. Thesaur. Conch, vol. ii. p. 600, 

 pi. 125, f. 161. 



In the fifth volume of the Linnean Transactions (pi. 1 , 

 f. 6, 7, 8), the older Adams has rudely delineated, under 

 the name of Bulla punctata, a shell, which bears no more 

 likeness to the present species than to any other sculptured 

 member of the genus. 



The species courteously attributed to him by Clark, is 

 still more minute than the last, to which, except in sculp- 

 ture, it bears so much resemblance, that we shall content 

 ourselves with describing the points of difference. It is 

 less depressed, and of a shorter and more rounded shape ; 

 towards the lip there is a slight posterior retusion. The 

 surface is adorned throughout with very numerous and 



rent zone round it, taking in eight or ten of the catence, which are more strongly 

 defined; the rest of the shell appears as it were frosted, and not so glossy, pos- 

 sessing a subumbilicus, and the outer margin of the aperture close to the body, is 

 winged or reflected a little, forming a depression or sulcus on that part. 



