506 PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



Dimensions. — L. 18 — 25 mm. B. 5 — 6 mm. 



Distrlhution. — Not known living. 



Fossil : Coralline Crag : Gedgrave. 



Miocene : France, Italy, Vienna basin, Belgium, Portugal. 



Lower Pliocene : Italy, France. 



Upper Pliocene : Italy — Orciano, Peccioli, Legoli, Bologna, Asti, Masserano, 

 Cornare. 



liemarJcs. — The specimen figm-ed under this name is one Mr. Bell received 

 from Mr. Kennard, who obtained it from the Broom Hill pit at Gedgrave. It 

 belongs to a species characteristic of the Miocene of Italy, Portugal, France, 

 Belgium and Vienna, but is found also in the Pliocene of Italy and France. Except 

 for the present specimen it is unknown from the English Crag. 



Genus OVULA, Bruguiere, 1789. 

 Ovula spelta (Linnc). Plate XLV, fig. 7. 



1766. Bulla spelta, Liuue, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1182. 



1822. Ovula spelta, Lamarck, Anim. saus Vert., vol. vii, p. 370. 



1824. Ovula Leathesii, J. Sowerby, Min. Conch., vol. v, p. 124, pi. cccclxxviii. 



1836—44. Ovula spelta, Philippi, Euum. Moll. Sic, vol. i, p. 233, ]^1. xii, fig. 13, 1836 ; vol. ii, p. 198, 



1844. 

 1842—48. Ovida Leathesii, S. V. Wood, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], vol. ix, p. 544, 1842; Mou. Crag 



Moll., pt. i, p. 14, pi. ii, fig. 1 a, 1848. 

 1843—81. Ovula Leathesii, Nyst,, Coq. foss. Terr. tert. Belg., p. 605, pi. xliii, fig. 19, 1843 ; 0. spelta, 



Couch. Terr. tert. Belg., p. 61, pi. v, fig. 4, 1881. 

 1864. Ovulum Leathesii, S. P. Woodward iu Grreeu's Hist, of Norfolk, ed. 3, p. 118. 

 1871. Bulla spelta, Jeffreys in Prestwicli, Quart. Jouru. Geol. Soc, vol. xxvii, pp. 144, 490. 



1871. Ovula adriatica, A. Bell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [4], vol. vii, p. 359; Geol. Mag., vol. viii, 

 p. 454. 



1872. Ovula spelta, A. and R. Bell, Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ii, pp. 203, 209, 213. 

 1875. Ovula spelta, Segueuza, Boll. R. Com. Geol. Ital., vol. vi, p. 153, no. 74. 



1883. Ovula {Simnia) spelta, Bucquoy, Dautzeuberg et Dollfus, Moll. mar. Rouss., vol. i, p. 134, 



pi. xvi, figs. 27, 28. 

 1886. Ovula (Simnia) spelta, Dollfus et Dautzenberg, Feuille des Jeuues Nat., vol. xvi, p. 104. 

 1890. Ovula spelta, C. Reid, Plioc Dep. Brit., p. 251. 

 1890—4. Ovula spelta, Sacco, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. ix, p. 191, uo. 2176, 1890; Neosimnia spelta^ 



Moll. Terr. Terz. Piem., pt. xv, p. 64, 1894. 

 1892. Ovula spelta, Locard, Coq. mar. Cotes de France, p. 35, fig. 22. 

 1908. AmpMperas (Neosimnia) spelta, Kobelt, Icon, schaleutrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. iv, p. 138, 



pi. cvii, figs. 14—17. 

 1911. Aniphiperas (Neosimnia)' spelta, CeruUi-Irelli, Palaeont. Ital., vol. xvii, p. 268, pi. xxvi, fig. 7. 



Specific Characters. — Shell slender, elongate, widened in the middle, attenuate 

 at each extremity ; mouth contracted at the summit, somewhat enlarged towards 



