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NOTES ON SOME BRITISH EULIMID. 
By E. R. Syxzs, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 
Read 8th May, 1903. 
PLATE XIV. 
For some time past I have found it exceedingly difficult satisfactorily to 
identify some of the smaller forms of Hw/ima found in the British 
seas, and I have therefore put together these notes and had the 
accompanying figures drawn in the hope of rendering some little help 
to others who may be in a similar position. It is not proposed here 
to deal with the shells known to British workers as HLulima polita 
and #. intermedia, nor to discuss the forms with colour-bands, but 
rather to specially consider the small, glassy, and transparent shells 
which are so liable to be mistaken for one another. 
So far back as the days of Montagu, collectors were aware that 
small specimens of Zulima were found, but they regarded them as 
being probably the young of the larger species. Forbes and Hanley 
gave Lf. distorta, Desh., and described a variety (?) gracilis. Jeffreys 
described £. stenostoma, and, equally, recorded /. distorta with its 
var. gracilis, and in 1883, when describing #. perminima, he cited it 
from the Shetlands. Further, in 1884, he added #. solida. In 1890 
Mr. Marshall recorded £. latipes, Watson, and £. ephamilla, Watson, 
but for reasons given later I do not think either belongs to the British 
fauna; the examples attributed to the former species belonging, as 
I pointed out in 1898, really to #. curva. In 1895 Mr. Jordan 
described #. Frielet and &£. Martyn-Jordani, and in 1901 Mr. Marshall 
described EF. anceps. 
Mr. Marshall, who had given most valuable notes on the British 
shells, summed up in 1901 the information he had accumulated, and 
gave the following list of species: Petitiana, anceps, curva, Philippit 
with vars. gracilis and Monterosatot, perminima, stenostoma, and ephamilla. 
The later list of the Conchological Society includes Martyn-Jordant, 
ephamilla, solida, curva, anceps, ineurva with var. tumidosa, stenostoma, 
gracilis, and Petitiana. It should be borne in mind, in comparing 
these two lists, that their authors’ respective views of the limits of 
the British seas were very different. I have followed the wider view. 
The localities given in these notes are only those which I have myself 
verified ; fuller details may be found in Mr. Marshall’s papers. 
1. Evtima anceps, Marshall. Pl. XIV, Fig. 11. 
Eulima anceps, Marshall: Journ. Conch., vol. x, p. 124 (Oct., 1901) ; 
Additions to British Conchology, pt. vil (May, 1903), p. 58. 
FTab.— Off Arran, in 31 fathoms. 
This species is figured from the ‘Palermo’ specimen, referred to 
by Mr. Marshall when describing the species. It is now in my 
