LIMA. 53 



Affinities. — In the churiictfi' of its onianieiitation this form ivse-iiihlos Lima unh- 

 .ri/uilaferalis, d'Orbigny (see p. I'Jj, fVoni the Cenonianian oi JjcMaiis, but tlie shell 

 is not so high, is less pointed in (he umbonal region, and has a longer hinge-line. 



In outline this form resembles the exaiii|ilc figiir(>d b_y Ravn ' as Liiiin Fmrli- 

 hammeri, von Hagenow, Imt possesses a miirh largei' iiumlHi' (if ribs. 



Beniarh. — I have seen one specimen only, which is in Di'. Blackinore's 

 collection. 



Dtstributioii. — Zone of Bdemiiiidla laucivnatu of Clarendon (Salisbury). 



Siih-ijciins — LlllKA, Tf. (1. Ih-iniit, is.')!. 



(' Italiens Tertiiir-GL'liililc uiid ilircii Uigauisehe Eiusuliliisse,' p. 115.^ 



Lima (IjImea?) ro.MrosiTA (Soiccrhi/), 18o(i. Plate VII, &gs. 2-ia, b, 2bii, b, 26. 



1836. Pecten compositus, /. de C. Sowerhy. Trans. Geol. Soc, ser. 2, vol. iv, 



l)p. 241, 342, pi. .xvii, fij,'. 20. 

 1847. LiUA cEHOMAHKasia, A. d'Orhitjny. Pal. Fran^. Terr. Crut., vol. iii, ji. 552, 



pi. ccccxxi, figs. 11 — 15. 

 1850. — — d'Orhujnij. Prodr. de Pal., vol. ii, p. 167. 



1867. — — E. Gui'nnuji-r. Albiiui Pak'ont. de la Sartliu, p. 19, 



pi. xxiv, figs. 4, P. 

 1870. — — F. J. PicM and G. Campkhe. Foss. Terr. Cri-t. Stc. 



Croix (Matt'r. Pal. Suisse, 

 ser. 5), pp. 161, 168. « 



F. Sf(iUci:l-a. Palicout. ludica, Crct. Fauna S. India, 



vol. iii, 1). 416. 

 li. Wuidinuller. Jahrb. d. k. proussisfb. geol. Landes- 

 anst. fiir 1881, pp. 24, 29. 



(3) (i) (5) (C) 



l(t 9 9 8 mm. 



II-:) l()-25 10 9-.5 „ 



(1, 3 — 6) Upper Greeusuud, Warminster. 

 (2) Rye Hill Sand, Maiden Bradley. 



Affinities. — This form is closely related to Lima ijranuhta (sin; hvlow). The 

 oi-namentation appears to have been similar in both cases, but in L. compusila the 

 scale-like spines on the ribs are much less perfectly preserved and usually appear 

 as tubercles only. In L. composita the shell appears to be rather less obli(|ue and 



1 ' MoUuskerue i Daumarks Kridtaflej. 1. Laiuellibr.' (1902), p. 97, pi. ii, fig. 12. 



