314 



Dredged alive at all depths, from 9 to 30 fathoms ; em- 

 bedded ill sponge or attached inside dead Fitina inermis, etc. 

 Off Beachport and Cape Jaffa, valves only, at 49, 110, 130, 

 and 200 fathoms. One specimen, at 110 fathoms, off Beach- 

 port, has 45 ribs ; usually they have from 25 to 30. 



Lima bullata. Born. 



Ostrea hvUaid, Born., Miis. Caes. Vindobon, 1780, p. 110, pi. 

 vi.. f. 8; Dillwyn, Desc. Cat., 1817, p. 270. 



Lima baUata, Born., Sowerby, Thes. Conch., 1843, vol. i., p. 

 84, pi. XX., f. 32, 33; Hanley, Cat. Rec. Bivalve. Shells, 1843, 

 p. 266; Sowerby in Reeve's, Conch. Icon., 1872, vol. xviii., p. 1, f. 

 3 a and h; Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Austr., 1886, vol. ix., p. 109, 

 No. 162; Adoock, Handlist Aquatic Moll., S. Austr., 1893, p. 14. 

 No. 202; Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., vol. iv., part 5, 1902, p. 310. 



Baclvla (Limafulaj hiiUata, Born., Angas, Proc. Zool. Soe., 

 Lond., 1865, p. 656, No. 93. 



Lima (Limahda) hullata, Born., Tryon, Struct, and Syst. 

 Conch., 1884, vol. iii., p. 287, pi. 132, f. 93; E. A. Smith, Chall. 

 Zool., 1885, vol. xiii., p. 292; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc., 

 N.S. Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., part 3, p. 440; Pritchard and Gatliflf, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc, Vict., 1904, vol. xvii. (N.S.), part 1. p. 260. 



Lima strangei, Sowerby, in Reeve's Conch. Icon., 1872, vol. 

 xviii., pi. 1, f. 3a, h. 



Dredged alive at Port Lincoln in 9 fathoms, 1 very 

 small; in Backstairs Passage in 18 fathoms, 1, and in 20 

 fathoms, 4, so that it is very rare in deep water. Valves 

 have been taken off Beachport, Cape Jaffa, and off the Nep- 

 tune Islands at 40, 60, 90, 100, 150, and 200 fathoms, gene- 

 rally in poor condition, especially the larger examples. 



Lima an^ulata, Sowerby. 



Lima angulata, Sowerby, Thes. Conoh., 1843, vol. i.. p. 86, pi. 

 xxii., f. 39 and 4. Type locality. — Panama and Bay of 

 Caraccas, 10 to 12 fathoms. Sowerbv, in Reeve's Conch, 

 loon., 1872, vol. xviii., pi. iii., f. 13; Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc, S. 

 Austr., 1886, vol. ix., p. 109; Adoock's Handlist, 1893, p. 14, No. 

 201; Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., 1902, vol. iv., p. 310. 



liadula ( Mantellum ) anQulata, Sowerby, sp. Angas, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, Lond., 1865, p. 65(6, No. 92. 



In Hardwicke Bay, Spencer Gulf, they occur in enor- 

 mous numbers, from near shore to fifteen miles out, form- 

 ing nests of small shells and fragments of shell in dead Car- 

 diirni valves, etc., in about 15 fathoms. They have also been 

 dredged at all depths from 9 to 24 fathoms, alive, through- 

 out Spencer and St. Vincent Gulfs and Backstairs Passage. 

 Off Beachport 4 well-preserved valves were ta,ken in 110 

 fathoms, and 5 in 200 fathoms. It appears not to have been 

 secured in Victoria or Tasmania, though taken off the coast 

 of New South Wales in 50 and 75 fathoms, as valves. 



