PHIL1NE. 21 



Utriculus lima BROWN, 111. Conch. G. Brit., p. 58, pi. 19, f. 39, 

 4Q. Philine lima SARS, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 300, pi. 18, f. 

 12a-/. Bulla lineolata COUTH., Bost. Journ. N. H., ii, p. 179, pi. 3, 

 f. 15, (1839) ; Amer. Jour. Sci., xxxvi, p. 389, (1839). GLD., Invert 

 Mass., i, p. 169, f. 99. DEKAY, N. Y. Moll., p. 16, pi. 35, f. 334. 

 Philine lineolata STIMP., New Engl. Shells, p. 51. GLD.-BINN., 

 Invert. Mass., p. 214, f. 504. LECHE, Kongl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 

 1878, p. 76. 



P. FLEXUOSA M. Sars. PI. 4, figs. 86, 87, 88, 89. 



Shell ovate, white, pellucid, thin, much contracted and slightly 

 sinuate above ; growth strise very dense, spiral stria obsolete and 

 distant. Spire minute; whorls 6, impressed, slightly umbilicate. 

 Aperture widest in the middle, produced and rounded below, nar- 

 rowed above; outer lip arcuate, slightly pressed inward and sinuous 

 above, then produced, projecting a little way above the vertex, sep- 

 arated by a narrow sinus from the columellar margin. Columella 

 sinuate-arched, rimate, covered with a thin callus. Alt. 10, diam. 

 7 mill. 



Aasgaardstrad,w. side Gulf of Christiania (Sars) ; Yucatan Strait, 

 640 fms. (Blake). 



Philine flexuosa M. SARS, Nyt. Mag. f. naturvidens. xvii, p. 181, 

 pi. 11, f. 23-26; Bidrag til Kundskab om Christianiafjordens 

 Fauna, pp. 69, 70, pi. 11, f. 23-26; Christ. vid.Selsk. Forh., 1858, 

 p. 85. G. O. SARS, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv. p. 303, pi. xii, f. 13 

 (dentition). DALL, Bull. M. C. Z., xviii, p. 59. 



P. VELUTINOIDES G. O. Sars. PL 5, figs. 26, 27, 28. 



Shell very thin and fragile, extremely pellucid, hyaline, of a 

 peculiar ovate triangular form, the length and breadth nearly equal, 

 narrowed and rounded towards the base, wider and truncated at 

 vertex ; spire distinct, obliquely impressed ; whorls 2J,the first half- 

 globular, suture deep. Aperture spreading, the outer lip much ex- 

 panded and arched, upwardly projecting above the vertex in an 

 obtuse, rounded lobe ; columella slightly concave, bearing a thin, 

 reflexed callus, spreading over part of the ventral surface and partly 

 covering the narrow umbilicus. Surface very smooth, shining, 

 without spiral strise, but with very delicate, arcuate growth-lines. 

 Alt. 2-7 mill. (Sars). 



Lofoten, Norway. 



