210 EULIMID^E. 



L*f4-ro0. biUne^f* 



^ -T) 6. E. BILINEA'TA*, (Alder.) w ? 47 * . 



/ lineata (as probably of Sowerby, but proposed to be changed to bili- 

 neata), Aid. Cat. Moll. North. & Durh. in Trans. Tyn. Nat. Field Club, 

 p. 47. E. bilineata, F. & H. iii. p. 237, pi. xcii. f. 9, 10, and (animal) 

 pi. KK f. 5. 



BODY whitish, with a faint tinge of yellow: snout rather 

 narrow, seldom projecting beyond the foot : tentacles rather 

 long : eyes small and black, persistent after death, when they 

 are distinctly seen through the shell : foot having a slight ear- 

 shaped expansion at each corner in front, finely pointed behind. 



SHELL a miniature resemblance of E. subulata, with 10-11 

 whorls. It is proportionally more solid and not so slender ; 

 and the coloured bands are fewer and differently arranged. 

 The present species has a well-marked pair of bands round 

 the middle of the last whorl, besides sometimes an obscure 

 band just below the suture ; and the upper whorls are encircled 

 by a pair, or occasionally by a single band. The pair on the 

 body-whorl converge (instead of diverging) towards the mouth. 

 There is also in some specimens a tawny streak or blotch at 

 the base (apparently representing the lowermost set of bands 

 in the allied species), which stains the lower part of the pillar- 

 lip. The mouth is not so narrow, and the outer lip is more 

 flexuous. L. 0-3. B. 0-075. 



HABITAT : Locally but widely dispersed, from low- 

 water mark at Jersey under loose stones (Dodd), to 

 82 f. off the east coast of Shetland in muddy sand (J. 

 Gr. J.). Montagu and many other writers mistook it 

 for a small variety of the last species ; and the published 

 accounts of its distribution are therefore somewhat con- 

 fused. The present species has been taken by Loven, 

 Sars, M f Andrew, and Malm on the Scandinavian coasts, 

 at depths of from 15 to 200 f. ; and Martin found it among 

 the refuse of fishing-boats in the Gulf of Lyons. I have 

 verified all these instances of foreign localities. 



The animal crawls at a tolerably fast pace, and gets 

 out of the water whenever it is immersed. My largest 

 specimen is not quite fa of an inch long. The 



* Having two thread-like marks. 



