AXINUS, CYAMIUM. 19 
AXINUS, J. Sowerby. 
* Axinus flexuosus, Montagu. 
Tellina flexuosa, Montagu; Lucina flexuosa, Flening ; 
Cryptodon flexuosum, T'uiton. 
Habitat—In muddy sand and mud, from 8 fathoms down- 
ward ; nearly everywhere. It is specially plentiful in 
Rothesay Bay, in 15 to 20 fathoms, muddy bottom. Single 
valves are everywhere common in deep water. 
British distribution —More or less common in all British 
and Irish seas on muddy ground. 
Foreign localities. —Iceland (Verkriizen), Spitzbergen 
(Torell), Massachusetts (Gould), Norway (Lovén, and others), 
Spain, Mogador, and Canary Islands (/‘Andrew), Mediter- 
ranean and Aigean (Forbes, and others). 
* Axinus ferruginosus, Forbes. 
Kellia ferruginosa, Forbes; Lucina ferruginosa, Forbes and 
Hanley. 
Habitat.—This insignificant shell is one of the dredger’s 
prizes. It frequents deepish water; and is exceedingly 
scarce, in the sense of local. I have taken it alive in 25 
fathoms in Loch Goil, about half a mile below Douglas Pier, 
on a bottom of muddy sand; also at Moll Dhu, Loch Fyne, 
on similar ground. My largest specimen is barely an eighth 
of an inch in breadth; it is from Loch Goil. Mr. Robertson 
has taken it in Loch Fyne, off Inveraray. 
British distribution—Loch Fyne, the Sound of Skye, the 
Hebrides, and Shetland are the only localities given by Mr. 
Jeffreys in “ British Conchology.” 
Foreign localities—Greenland (Torell), Norway (Lovén 
and Jeffreys), Spain (M‘Andrew), Mediterranean (Naves), 
Aigean (Forbes). 
FAmILy CARDITIDA, Gray. 
Cyamium, Philippi. 
* Cyamium minutum, 0. Fabricius. 
Venus minuta, Fabricius; Mya purpurea, Montagu; Erycina 
purpurea, Recluz; Leszea minuta, Moller; Turtonia minuta, 
Forbes and Hanley. 
Habitat—Rather common among the roots of Corallina 
officinalis and below stones, at low water mark and a little 
