PHILINE. 17 



P. PUNCTATA Clark. PL 4, fig. 69 ; pi. 9, fig. 9 (Colpodaspis). 



Shell oval, convex, but somewhat compressed in the middle, of 

 delicate texture, nearly transparent, and glossy; sculpture, ex- 

 tremely numerous and close set spiral rows of minute rings or im- 

 pressed circular dots, which are not united or chain-like, but appear 

 punctate ; edge of the mouth plain at its base and slightly scalloped 

 at the top of the outer lip ; color as in all the foregoing species ; 

 spire very small, but prominent ; whorls 2, similar to those of the 

 other species ; suture narrow, deep, and channelled; mouth regu- 

 larly oval, rounded at the base ; outer lip flexuous, widely indented 

 or slightly concave in the middle ; the top lies somewhat below the 

 spire ; outer corner bluntly angulated, and projecting ; inner corner 

 cloven and causing a disconnection of the outer whorl from the next ; 

 inner lip narrow, folding over the pillar, behind which is a depres- 

 sion or approach to an umbilicus. (Jeffr.). 



Alt. 2J, diam. 1-9 mill. 



British Seas (Jeffr.) ; Florben, etc., Norway (Sars) ; Algiers, 35 

 fms. (McAndrew) ; Suda Bay. Candia, Aegean Sea, 119 fms. 

 (Forbes) ; Cape S. Vito and Palermo (Monts.). 



Bullcea punctata CLARK, Zool. Journ. iii, 339. Pliiline punctata 

 FORBES & HANLEY, Hist. Br. Moll, iii, p. 547, pi. 114E, f. 8, 9 ; pi. 

 XJTJ, f. 5. JEFFREYS, Brit. Conch, iv, p. 455 ; v, pi. 96, f. 5. AD. 

 in Thes. Conch, p. 600, pi. 125, f. 161. SOWB., C. Icon. f. 9. Bullcea 

 alata FORBES Rep. JSgean Invert., Rep. Brit. Asso. Adv. Sci. 1843, 

 p. 187. Colpodaspis pusilla M. SARS, Bidrag til Kundskab om 

 Christianiafjordens Fauna, ii, p. 70-74, pi. 11, f. 1-6. G. O. SARS, 

 Moll. Reg. Arct.Norv. pi. xii, f. 15 (dentition). 



P. ANGULATA Jeffreys. PI. 3, figs. 41, 42. 



Shell rhomboidal, depressed, fragile, transparent and glossy; 

 sculpture, numerous rows of very fine spiral striae, composed of oval 

 and almost microscopic dots, and appearing punctate; the upper 

 part of the body-whorl is angulated or margined by a sharpish keel, 

 between which and the suture is a flattened space marked with 5 of 

 the spiral striae and sloping towards the spire; there is also a 

 tendency to angularity in other parts; edge of the mouth plain or 

 smooth ; color clear white, becoming opaque in dead specimens 

 which have been picked out of shell-sand ; occasionally one or two 

 transparent zones may be seen, as in the variety of P. catena; spire 

 extremely small, slightly prominent ; whorls 2-3, conspicuous ; the 

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