42 NORMAN : ON THE MOLLUSCA OF BERGEN FIORDS. 



Malletia obtusa, Metzger. Zoologische Ergebnisse der 

 Nordseefahrt, 1874, p. 233. 



The district examined by me is just that from which the 

 known examples of this fine shell have chiefly come. Here it 

 was first found by Dr. Koren, as mentioned in Sars' descrip- 

 tion, and here, too, the specimens recorded by Metzger were 

 dredged. It only inhabits the deepest water, 200 — 400 f., 

 on a fine mud bottom, and in such localities was procured in 

 Oster Fiord, Kors Fiord, and the Bukken district. 

 44. Limopsis minuta, Philippi. 



Pentimculiis (Limopsis) 7?iinutus, Philippi. Enum. Moll. 

 Sicil., 1836, p. 6z, pi. v., fig. 3. 



Limopsis borealis, Jeffreys. Brit. Conch., v., p. 174, pi. c, 



fig- 3- 



Living on a muddy bottom, in 100 — 200 fathoms, in 

 Kors Fiord. 

 46. Area nodulosa, Miiller. 



Area fiodulosa, Jeffreys. Brit. Conchol., iii., p. 180 ; v., 

 p. 176, pi. c, fig. 2. 



Rough ground in Bergen Fiord and Leerosin, 40 — 100 f., 

 on dead shells and stones ; nestling, wherever it can, in a 

 crevice. 

 50. Decipula ovata, Jeffreys. 



Decipula ovata, Jeffreys. MS., Friele, Bidrag til Vestlandets 

 Molluskfauna (in Chr. Videns-Selsk. Forhand., 1875, p. 57), 



Mr. Jeffreys and myself each found a single specimen of 

 this extremely rare and interesting bivalve in Oster Fiord, 

 his example being met with in 100 — 200 f. Station 2, and 

 mine in 400 f Station 9. It was in Oster Fiord also that my 

 friend Herr Herman Friele obtained the first Norwegian 

 specimen. Decipula ovata first became known to Dr. 

 Jeffreys among the products of the ' Porcupine ' Expedition 

 of 1869. 



J.C, ;:., Feb., 1879 



