618 MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA, 
Distribution, 7 species. United States, Norway, Britain, 
Borneo, Mexico. 
Buccinvuuvs, Blanchard. 
Shell thick; columella with two plaits; aperture small, entire 
in front. 
Distribution, 10 species. South Seas. 
APLUSTRUM, Schumacher. 
Type, Bulla aplustre, Pl. XIV., Fig. 11. 
Htymology, aplustre, a ship’s flag. 
Synonyms, Bullina, Fér. Hydatina (physis), Schum. Bullinula 
(scabra), Beck. 
Shell oval, ventricose, highly coloured ; spire wide, depressed ; 
aperture truncated in front; outer lip sharp. 
Animal with a very large foot, extending beyond the shell all 
round, and capable of enveloping it; a posterior lobe reflected 
on the spire; mantle not investing ; tentacular lobes large, oval, 
ear-shaped; labial tentacles four; eyes small, black, sessile at 
the inner bases of the tentacles; lingual teeth (B. physis) 
13.0.13, serrated. 
Distribution, 10 species. United States, West Indies, Mauri- 
tius, Ceylon, China, Australia. 
ScAPHANDER, Montfort. 
Type, 8. lignarius, Pl. XIV., Fig. 12. 
Etymology, scaphe, boat, aner, man. 
Shell oblong, conyolute; spirally striated; aperture much 
expanded in front; spire concealed; epidermis thick; lngual 
teeth 1.0.1, crested. 
Animal with a large oblong head, destitute of eyes; foot 
short and broad ; lateral lobes reflected, but not enveloping the 
shell; gizzard with two large trigonal plates and a small narrow 
transverse plate (Fig. 17). It feeds on Dentaliwm entale. 
Distribution, 13 species. United States, Norway, Britain, 
Mediterranean on sandy ground; 50 fathoms. 
Jrossil, 8 species. Eocene—. Britain, France. 
PHILINE (Ascanius, 1762). 
Type, B. aperta, Pl. XIV., Fig. 13. 
Synonym. Bullea. Lamarck. 
Shell internal, white, translucent, oval, slightly convoluted, 
spire rudimentary. 
Animal pale, slug-like; mantle inyesting the shell; head 
