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" THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Family PHILINID^. 



P H I L I N E, Ascmiius. 



PHILINE TERES, sp. nov. 

 (Fig. 113.) 

 Stations 13, 49. 

 Shell small, thin, globose, much inflated. Whorls two, last 



Fig. 113. 



large, rather oblique, contracted below the vertex. Spire concave. 

 Sculpture : microscopic, dense, spiral strings of oval beads, inter- 

 rupted by growth lines. Colour white. Interior smooth, polished. 

 Columella edge curled, behind it an umbilical groove. Inner lip 

 broadly arched below, sharply recurved above. Outer lip above 

 detached from the whorl and reaching forward. Length, 3 mm. ; 

 breadth, 2*5 mm. 



The small size, rotundity, curvature of the inner lip and free 

 lobe of the outer one are features which distinguish this species. 



A few specimens from off Cape Three Points in 41-50 fathoms; 

 and from off Port Kembla in 63-75 fathoms. 



Class PTEROPODA. 



Fami/y LIMACINID^. 



L I M A C I N A, Cuvier. 

 LIMACINA I NFL ATA, L'Orbu/ui/, sp. 



Atlanta in/lata, D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Mcrid., v., 1836, p. 174, 

 pi. xii., f. 1(3, 17. 



