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inch is the usual breadth of the largest. Mr. Edgar Smith 
has recorded it from deep water in the Indian Ocean. 
Var. minor Jeff.—The Minch off Loch Boisdale, 35—s0 f. 
(Somerville and J.T.M.). These are smaller than the 
Shetland form. 
L. borealis L.—Some specimens have twice as many riblets as 
others. The very young resemble the same stage of Lorifes 
/acteus; but this is angular on the smaller side, while Lorifes 
is rounded. The largest come from Scilly, and are nearly 
two inches in diameter. 
Mr. Dawson dredged a fresh valve of Z. pennsylvanica 
off Aberdeenshire, thirty miles from land. It is West 
Indian, and probably came from ballast. 
Axinus flexuosus Mont.—Young shells are proportionately 
Jess globular than the type, and have a squarish outline. 
A monstrosity from Jersey has a conspicuous double fold 
or sinus. 
Var. polygona Jeff.—Gairloch, 30 f. (Somerville and J.T.M.). 
Also Corea, 54 f. (‘Sylvia’) ! 
The var. gouldit Phil. has been taken between the 
Hebrides and Feerces. It is smaller, rounder, and flatter, 
without the longitudinal furrow. 
A. croulinensis Jeff.—1o to 140f. Ardlamont Point, 100 f. 
(Robertson) !; Machrie Bay in Arran, 29 f.; Strachur in 
Loch Fyne, 16—56 f.; and Onich in Loch Linnhe, 24 f. 
(Knight) !; Point of Ayr, 20f.; Kyles of Bute, 12—23 f.; 
Brodick Bay, 23—40 f.; Sound of Sleat, 40—95 f. ; Loch 
Hourn, 25 f.and 75 f.; and Gairloch, 12 f. and 30 f. 
(Somerville and J.1.M.); off Lossiemouth (Scotch Fishery 
Board Report, 1889); Lochranza, 18—7of.; Lamlash, 
15 f.; ‘Tarbert, 20f.; Loch Broom, 35—sof.; the 
Minch, 12—50 f.; Stornoway, 1of.; Doggerbank, 35 f. 
All the specimens from the foregoing localities were 
living, and it will be observed that Jeffreys’ record in 
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