.Q LAMELLIBRANCHIATA. 



obtained it at tliree stations off the S. W. coast of Portugal, 292—718 fm. ("Fragments of old and 

 joung specimens. Semifossil?"). 



Next, it is mentioned by Dantzenberg and Fischer (I.e.) from the Azores, 595 — 900 fm. and 

 by Locard (I.e.) W. of Soudan, 335— 1380 fm.') 



It is found as postglacial fossil in Norway, up to a size of 160"'"'. ^l 



Lima gwyni Sykes. 

 PL II, figs. 4a — c. 



Livia rlliptica Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., II, 1863, p. 81; V, 1869, p. 169, PI. 25, fig. 2; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, 

 p. 563; Locard, Exped. scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman, Moll. Test. II, 1898, p. 418. - 

 Lima givyni Sykes, Journ. of Malacol., X, 1903, p. 104. 



The "Ingolf has taken this .species at: 



St. 6. S. of Iceland 90 fm. i valve. 



- 81. S. W. of Iceland 485 - i — 



Further, it has been taken at Iceland at the following places : 



63°i5'N.L,., 22°23'W.L, 114 — 170 fm. 11 valves. 



63°i8' — 2i°3o' — 94 - I valve. 



Vestmannaeyjar 68 — 70 - 2 valves. 



63°i772' N. L,., i7°39' W. L 87 - black sand with shells and stones. i valve. 



These localities all lie off the south coast. The largest shell measures 13.5 "'"'. One of the 

 shells from Vestmannaeyjar comes near to the variety Icvittsciila. the riljs being almost lacking. 

 At the Faeroes it has been taken at: 



6i°9' N. L., 7°54' W. L 180 fm. 2 valves. 



The largest of these valves is 11 "'"'. high. 



Distribution. This species reaches from Lofoten along the west coast of Europe into the 

 Mediterranean to the Aegean; according to Jeffreys it is also said to have been found at Newfound- 

 land and the northern Japan; the same author gives its vertical distribution as from 6 — 400 fm. 



Lima givym' \\a.s not earlier been recorded from Danish waters; in reality however it has been 

 taken in the Kattegat, namely, a specimen at Trindelen as also a specimen and a valve in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Fladen, 131/2 — 29 fm., but an erronous determination placed it under L.siibatiricti/afa Mtg.'^) 



Synonymy. With regard to the designation of the species the following information may be 

 quoted from vSykesi): "In 1863 Jeffreys described (Brit. Conch, vol.11, p. 81) a shell from the British 



■) At the place cited Jeffreys ;ilso ascribes it .n distribution to Patagonia aud Japan, but in Zool. Chall. E-^p., P.irt 

 XXXV, 1885, p. 290, K. .v. Smith refers the specimens in question to the nearly related species IJnta goliath Sow. 



2) P. A. yen, in Archiv f. Math, og Naturvidensk. Bd. XXX, Nr. 3, 1909, pp. 33— 37. 



3) C. G. Joh. Petersen: Om de skalbjerende Molluskers Udbredningsforhold i de danske Have indenfor Skagen, 

 188S, p. 122, and: Det videusk. Udbytte af Kanonbaaden "Hauch's Togter, 1893, p. 66. — Only one of the shells mentioned, 

 namely that from No 39, belongs to L. snbauriculata . 



■1) E.R. Sykes: On the Name Lima elliptica. The Journ. of Malacology, vol. X, 1903, p. 104. 



