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on the Northumbrian coast (Alder). Oban, Loch Carron, 

 Ullapool, and Lerwick (Jeffreys). Off Cape Wrath in 

 fifty fathoms, the Zetlands in fifteen and fifty fathoms, 

 Moray Firth in thirty-four fathoms (M'Andrew); Eda 

 Sound, Orkney, and off Aberdeen (Thomas). " Each side 

 of the Irish coasts ; dredged sparingly in the deeper parts 

 of the Loughs of Strangford and Belfast (Thompson). 1 '' It 

 ranges throughout the European seas. 



L. hians, Gmelin. 

 Valves shallow, gaping at both sides. 



Plate LII. fig. 3, 4, 5, and (Animal) plate R. (under the name of L. teneru). 



Die klajfende Kammuschel, (The gaping Pectcn) Schroter, Einleit. Conch, vol. 



iii. p. 332, pi. 9, f. 4. 

 Ostrea hians, Gmelin (from Schroter), Syst. Nat. p. 3332. — Dillw. Recent 



Shells, vol. i. p. 270.— Index Testaceol. pi. 1 1, f. 53. 



Lima tenera, Turt. (not Ostrea tenera of Chemn.) Zoolog. Journ. vol. ii. p. 362, 



pi. 13, f. 2. — Forbes, Malac. Monens. p. 41. — Brown, Illust. 



Conch. G. B. p. 74, pi. 23, f. 8, 9.— Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. 



p. 77, and vol p ii. p. 57, pi. 16, f. 3. 



„ bullata, Payraudeau, Moll. Corse, p. 70. — D'Orbignv, Moll. Canar. p. 



101. 

 „ vitri?ia, Brown, Conchol. Text- Book (1833), p. 113, pi. 15, f. 7 ; Illust. 



Conch. G. B. p. 74, pi. 23, f. 10, 10*, 11, 11*. 

 » fragMs, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 388 (in part). — Couch, Cornish 

 Fauna, pt. 2, p. 37. 

 Lima, Forbes, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. p. 593, 594, fig. 63, 64. 



„ inflata, Forbes, Malacolog. Monensis, p. 41. — Brown, 111. Conch. G. B. 



p. 74. 

 „ aperta, Sowerby, Thesaur. Conch, vol. i. p. 87, pi. 22, f. 26, 27, 28, 29. 

 — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 249. — Hanley, Recent Shells, vol. i. 

 p. 268. 

 „ Sarsii, Kroyer (fide Loven). 

 „ hians, Loven, Index Moll. Skandinaviae, p. 32. 

 „ exilis, S. V. Wood, Mag. Nat. Hist, new series, vol. iii. (Charlesworth's) 



p. 234, pi. 3, f. 1 ? (fossil). 

 „ oblonga, S. V. Wood, Mag. Nat. Hist, new series, vol. iii. p. 234, pi. 3, 

 f. 2 (fossil). 



The peculiar hiation of this widely-diffused species, which. 



