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Lima subauriculata, Mont. Crag Moll., vol. ii, p. 47, Tab. VII, figs. 3 a and 6. 



Lima subaukiculata, Forbes and Hanley. Brit. Moll., vol. ii, p. 2G3, tab. 53, figs. 



4—5. 



— elliptica, Jeff. Brit. Con., vol. ii, p. 81 ; and vol. v, pi. 25, fig. 2. 



Localities. Cor. Crag, Sutton. Recent, Mediterranean, British, and Scandinavian 

 Seas. 



There is much confusion in reference to this species and the following [elongata), 

 owing to the uncertainty as to which form Montague's figures were intended to represent 

 and his description to attach, the two figures of Montague (one of the interior and the 

 other of the exterior) being inconsistent with each other. Both were united by me in 

 the ' Crag Mollusca 5 under the name subauriculata, the following species [elongata) being 

 shown only as var. elongata (fig. 3 c). Mr. Jeffreys has, in 'Brit. Conch.,' given a new 

 specific name {elliptica) to one of the two forms, which, he says, is that one from which 

 Forbes and Hanley appear to have taken their description, and he has assigned 

 Montague's name of subauriculata to the following species (elongata) ; and he adds that the 

 species to which he thus assigns the name elliptica has not, in his belief, been found south 

 of the Hebrides. Mr. Hanley, however, assures me that the specimen from which the 

 figure and description in the ' Brit. Moll.' were taken came from the British Channel. As 

 the other form has long been described under other names, it seems to be adding to 

 complexity to introduce the name elliptica for either; and I have therefore retained 

 Montague's name for the least elongated of the two forms which occur in the Crag, and 

 in doing this I adhere to Forbes and Hanley 's view of the matter. 



Lima elongata, Forbes. Crag Moll., vol. ii, p. 47, Tab. VII, fig. 3 c (as L. sub- 

 auriculata, var. elongata). 



Lima elongata, Forbes. Rep. ^Egean Invertebrata, Brit. Ass., 1843. 



— sulculus, Leach. M.S. adopt. Loven. Ind. Moll. Scan., p. 32, 184G. 



— subaukiculata, Forbes and Hanley. Brit. Moll., vol. ii, p. 2G3 (not in 



figure) . 



— — Jeffreys. Brit. Conch., vol. ii, p. 82 ; vol. v, pi. 25, fig. 3. 



Localitg. Cor. Crag, Sutton. Recent, Arctic and British Seas, Mediterranean, 

 ./Egean, and Canaries. 



This elongated form, figured by me as a variety only in ' Crag Moll.,' must, I presume, 

 now be regarded as a distinct species, the only question being that of name. As it is clear 

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