NORTH SIDE OF THE BAY OF BISCAY, IN AUGUST, 1906. 363 



Zimopsis minuta, Jeffreys, 1879. Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 585, pi. xlvi, 

 fig. 9. 



This species has a very wide distribution. It has been recorded 

 from the North Atlantic, on the east side, from the Loffodens to the 

 Canary Islands, on the west from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 also from Barbados and in the Mediterranean. 



Station XII. 246 fathoms. Five odd valves. 



Glycymeris, da Costa. 

 Glycymeris glycymeris (Linne). 



Area glycy7neris, Linne, 1758. Syst. Nat., edit, x, p. 695. 



Glycymeris orhiculata, da Costa, 1778, p. 168, pi. xi, fig. 2. 



Pectunculns pilosus, etc., Turton, 1822. Conch. Insul. Brit., pp. 172-4, 

 pi. xii, figs. 2-6 (non Linne). 



Generally distributed in the European seas, though rare in the 

 Mediterranean ; also found on the Senegal coast, Madeira, and the 

 Canary Islands. Jeffreys records it from the north of Japan. 



Station I. 75 fathoms. Two living, one very young. 

 ,, V. 109 fathoms. One odd valve. 



Arca, Linne. 



(1) Area nodulosa, Miiller. 



Ai'ca nodulosa, Miiller, 1766. Zool. Danise Prodr., p. 247. 

 „ scabra, Poli, 1795. Test. utr. Sicilise, ii, pi. xxv, fig. 22. 



Barhatia scabra, Brusina, 1886. Contr. Fauna Dalmat., p. 101. 



Arca (Barbatia) scabra, Dautzenberg et H. Fischer, 1897. In Mem. 

 Soc. Zool. France, x, p. 199. 



Appears to be a widely distributed species in the Atlantic Ocean, 

 north of the equator, and is recorded from the Hebrides, Faroe Islands, 

 British coasts. Bay of Biscay, Portugal coast, Senegal, Canary Islands, 

 Gulf of Mexico, and the Florida coast ; it is also found throughout the 

 Mediterranean Sea. 



Station VII. 444 fathoms. Twelve of various ages and all living. 



„ XIII. 412 fathoms. Twenty -five of various ages, all living with 

 the exception of a couple of odd valves. 



(2) Arca obliqua, Philippi. 



Arca obliqua, Philippi, 1844. Enum. Moll. Sicil., vol. ii, p. 43, 

 pi. 15, fig. 2. 

 „ „ Jeffreys, 1863. Brit. Conch., vol. ii, p. 175 ; 



vol. v, p. 175, pi. XXX, fig. 4. 



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