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SUB-FAMILY PECTUNCULIN^. 



Genus Limopsis. 



synopsis of species. 

 Smooth or concentrically wrinkled, radial lines absent or 

 not prominent. 

 Elongate-ovate, no radial ornament. L. insolita. 



Ovate-orbicular ; thick, concentrically ridged, and finely 

 radiately striated. L. aurita, 



Eadial ornament jDrominent. 



Eadial ribs simple ; cancellate. L. BelcTieri, 



Eadial ribs bifurcate ; strong concentric folds. 



L. multiradiata 



Limopsis insolita, G. B. Soicerby. 



JReferences. — Trigonoccelia insolita, Sow. in Darwin's Geol. 

 Obs. on S. America, 184^6 ; p. 608, t. ii., figs. 20-21., 2nd ed. 

 Limopsis insoliin, Zittel in A"oy. Novara, Palseont., p. 48, 

 t. xiii., fig. 1, 1861; icL, Hutton, Cat. Tert. Moll, of New Zealand, 

 p. 28, 1873. 



Localities. — South Australia : in a black clayey sand at 

 the base of the sea cliff, half mile north of jetty in Aldinga 

 Bay, ver}' abundant ; in a similar bed, Adelaide bore. New 

 Zealand : Pareora Series, at Nelson, Kaniera, "Waikari 

 {Sutton)] also Santa Cruz, Patagonia {Darwin). 



Limopsis aurita, Brocchi. 



References. — Area aurita (Br.), Conch. Foss. Subapenninae,. 

 t. si., fig. 9. Limopsis aurita, McCoy, Pro dr. Pal. Victoria, 

 Dec. II., t. xix., figs 5-7 (1875). 



Synonym. — Limopsis Zealandica, Hutton, Cat. Tert. Moll., 

 N.Z., p. 28 (1873). 



Localities. — A'ictoeia: At Bird-rock Point, near Geelong; 

 at Schnapper Point and at Mornington, Port Phillip {McCoy) ; 

 Muddy Creek {B. T). Tasmania: Table Cape {B. M. John- 

 ston). Also fossil in European Miocene and Pliocene, and 

 recent in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. 



Limopsis Belcheri, Adams and Reeve. 



References. — Fectunculus Belcheri, Adams and Eeeve, in Toy- 

 of the Samaraug, t. xxii., f. 5, p. 76 (1850). Limopsis Belcheri, 

 McCoy, Prodv. Pal. Victoria, Dec. II., t. xix., figs. 8-9 (1875). 



Localities. — Victoria : Balcombe Bay ! ; Muddy Creek ! ; 

 Moorabbin ; Corio Bay ; and west of mouth of Gellibrand 

 Eiver {McCoy). South Australia: Calciferous sandstone 

 near Moriran on the Eiver Murray ; raggy limestone at Edith- 

 burg, Torke Peninsula. Eeceut off the Cape of Good Hope 



