  The spectrum of the $s\bar s$ mesons is studied performing a phenomenological
analysis of the Regge trajectories defined for the excitation energies. For the
$\phi(3 ^3S_1)$ state the mass $M(\phi(3S))=2100(20)$ MeV and the leptonic
width $\Gamma_{ee}(\phi(3S))=0.27(2)$ keV are obtained, while the mass of the
$2 ^3D_1$ state, $M(\phi(2 ^3D_3))=2180(5)$ MeV, appears to be in agreement
with the mass of the $\phi(2170)$ resonance, and its leptonic width,
$\Gamma_{ee}(2 ^3D_1)=0.20\pm 0.10$ keV, has a large theoretical uncertainty,
depending on the parameters of the flattened confining potential.
