PHILINE. 25 



P. SAGRA d'Orbigny. PL 4, figs. 61, 62, 63. 



Shell oblong, thin, fragile, loosely spiral, depressed, wide and 

 truncate below, rather narrowed and truncate above ; covered with 

 spiral lines of small oblong rings placed end to end, alternating 

 with a waved stria following the intervals of the rings, and giving 

 the appearance of a chain (fig. 62) ; spire embraced, not umbilica- 

 ted, but forming a projecting disk. Aperture very wide, the interior 

 of all the whorls visible therein ; lip thin, crenulated. Uniform 

 white. Alt. 3, diam. H mill. (Orb.}. 



Martinique on the strand (Cande) ; St. Thomas (Riise) ; off Hat- 

 teras 15 fins. (U. S. F. C.). 



Sulla sagra ORB. Moll. Cuba, i, p. 123, pi. 4, f. 5-8, (1841). 

 Philine sagra MORCH., Mai. BL, xxii, p. 175. VERRILL, Tr. Conn. 

 Acad., vi, p. 467, pi, 45, f. 16, 16a. DALL, Cat. Mar. Moll. 8.-E. 

 U. S., p. 88, pi. 41, f. 16, 16a. 



P. AMABILIS Verrill. Unfigured. 



Shell very thin, diaphanous, delicate and shining with bright iri- 

 descence; very large for the genus, and very open, showing the in- 

 terior of the spire, broad oblong, with rounded ends; outer lip 

 evenly rounded posteriorly and scarcely projecting beyond the spire; 

 apex occupied by a shallow pit. Sculpture, conspicuous wavy lines 

 of growth and microscopic wavy spiral striae over the whole sur- 

 face. Length of shell 15, breadth 10 mill. Odontophore with a 

 large hook-shaped inner lateral tooth on each side, and a slender 

 spiniform outer one. Gizzard large, with three calcareous plates. 

 Station 876, several living specimens. ( Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci. 

 [3], xx, p. 398). 



Off Martha's Vineyard, in 120 fms. 



P. CANDEANA d'Orbigny. PL 4, figs. 70, 71, 72. 



Shell uniform white, ovate, thin, fragile, much depressed, trans- 

 versely striate when viewed under a lens ; spire very obtuse ; whorls 

 2 ; columella dilated within, acute ; aperture very large, dilated 

 above and spreading. Alt. 12 mill. 



Guadeloupe (Cande). 



Bullaza candeana ORB., Moll. Cuba, i, p. 119, pi. 4, f. 1-4. Phi- 

 line candeana MORCH, Mai. BL, xxii, p. 175. 



