The Conchologist 



J[ ^uarterlj) journal of /IRolacotocjj?. 



Vol. II. JUNE 24th, 1S92. No. 2. 



NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF 

 PLEUROPHYLLIDIA LOVENI IN BRITAIN. 



By W. C. MtNTOSH, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., 

 Professor of Natural History in the University of St. Andrews. 



When my late friend Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys published the fifth volume 

 of his "British Conchology" in 1869, Pkurophyllidia loveni, Bergh, 

 was considered an extremely rare British Mollusk, only two specimens, 

 indeed, having been procured, viz., one by Mr. Barlee in Shetland 

 in 1849, and a second by the Rev. R. C Abbes from the fishing 

 boats at Whitburn in Durham, as stated in the Appendix to Forbes 

 and Hanley's British Mollusca.t Nothing appears to have been 

 heard of it till the Trawling Expeditions of 1884, when a specimen 

 was procured E. by S. of Girdleness, Aberdeen. Since that period 

 Mr. Holt obtained two fine specimens from the fishermen's lines at 

 St. Andrews,** and Mr. Cunningham mentions^ that Mr. Garstang 

 recognised it last summer amongst material obtained from a shrimp- 

 trawl near Plymouth. 



In Scotland it is an inhabitant of the deeper offshore waters, and 

 ranges to the south-western coasts of Norway and Sweden. 



t Vol. IV., p. 290, and Vol. I. plate KKK., figs. 1-3. The species is the Diphyllidia lineata. 

 Otto, of these authors. 



** Ann. and Mag. N.H., August (1891). 



J Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc. (1891). 



Conchologist. Vol. ii., p. 21. 



