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scarcely be computed at more than five lines in breadth, 

 and three in length. 



The animal closely resembles that of Lima buttata. 

 The tentacula are of a pale pink colour, and the foot and 

 body are of a pale orange hue. We have never observed 

 it to make a nest. It lives for the most part on very 

 muddy ground . 



This is a rare shell and very seldom taken alive. A 

 single valve at Herm (S. H.). Pollkerar Cove (Miss Lavers). 

 Whitesand Bay (Jeffreys). Off Plymouth in twenty-five 

 fathoms, and Penzance in twenty fathoms (M'Andrew and 

 E. F.). Off Laxey, Isle of Man, in fifteen fathoms (E. F.). 

 At Oban in fifteen fathoms, mud ; off Cape Wrath in fifty 

 fathoms, and at the same depth in the Minch, and between 

 Fair Island and the Zetlands (M'Andrew and E. F.). 

 Lochs Alsh and Carron (Jeffreys). Eda Sound, Orkney, 

 among coral and broken shells (Thomas). Loughs of 

 Strangford and Belfast extremely rare (W. Thompson). 

 It ranges along all the coasts of Europe. 



L. Loscombii, Sowerby. 



Valves swollen, inequilateral, oblique, closed on one side, 

 gaping slightly at tbe other. 



Plate LIII. fig. 1, 2, 3. 



Pecten frayilis, Mont, (not Chemnitz) Test. Brit. Suppl. p. 62. 

 Ostrea fragilis, Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 131. 



Lima bullata, Turt. (not Ostrea bullata, Born) Dithyra Brit. p. 218, pi. 17, f. 

 4, 5. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 114. 

 „ Loscombii, Sowerby, Genera Shells, Lima, f. 4. — Macgilliv. Moll. 

 Aberd. p. 228.— Reeve, Conch. Systemat. pi. 112, f. 4.— 

 Sowerby, Thesaur. Conch, vol. i. p. 86, pi. 22, f. 20, 21, 

 22.— Hanl. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 267. 

 „ fragilis, Forbes, Magaz. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. p. 594, f. 65 ; Malac. 

 Monens. p. 40 — Brown, 111. Conch. G. B. p. 74, pi. 23, f. 6, 

 7, 7*. — S. V. Wood, in Mag. Nat. Hist, new series (Charles- 

 worth's), vol. iii. p. 235, pi. 3, f. 3. 



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