ElTLliMA ror.TTA. 587 



Genus EULIMA, Hisso, 182G. 

 Eulima polita (Linne). Plato L, fig', lo. 



1758. Turin polit us, Linnt', S_vst. Nat.., ed. 10, ]>. 7()7, no. 570. 



1836—44. MeJania JBo.^c//, Pliilippi, Euum. Moll. Sic, vol. i, p. 157,1830; Kiilinm polita, \ol. ii, 



p. 134, 1844. 

 1853. Eulima polita, Forbes and Haulev, Brit. Moll., vol. iii, p. 229, pi. xcii, figs. 1, 2. 

 1859. Eulima polita, G. B. Sowerby, 111. Ind. Brit. Sliells, pi. xv, fig-. 22. 

 1867—84. Eulima jwlita, Jeffreys, Brit. Couch., vol. iv, p. 201, 1867; vol. v, p. 214, pi. Ixxvii, fig. 3, 



1869 ; in Prestwich, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxvii, pp. 143, 488, 1871 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, p. 366, 1884. 

 1870—98. Eulima polita, A. Bell, Journ. de Couch., vol. xviii, p. 350, no. 335, 1870 ; Proc. Eoy. Phys. 



Soc. Ediub., vol. x, p. 296, 1890; Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. [3], vol. ii, p. 628, 1893; Trans. Roy. 



Geol. Soc. Cornwall, vol. xii, p. 146, 1898. 

 1872. Eulima polita, A. and R. Bell, Proc. Geol. A.ssoc, vol. ii, pp. 203, 209, 213. 

 1873—76. Eulima polita, Seguenza, Boll. R. Com. Geol. Ital., vol. iv, p. 352, no. 268, 1873 ; 



vol. vii, p. 12, no. 509, 1876. 

 1878. Eulima polita, G. O. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 360. 



1883. Eulima polita, Bucquoy, Dautzenberg et Dollfus, Moll. mar. Rouss., vol. i, p. 188, pi. xxi, 

 figs. 17, 18. 



1884. Eulima polit a, Monterosato, Noinen. Gen. e Spec. Conch. Medit., p. 100. 



1886. Eulima polita, Kendall and R. G. Bell, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlii, p. 212. 



1890—92. Eulima polita, Sacco, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. ix, p. 185, no. 2007, 1890; Moll. Terr. 



Terz. Piem., pt. xi, p. i, pi. i, fig. 1, 1892. 

 1892. Eulima polita, Locard, Coq. mar. Cotes de France, p. 133, fig. 117. 



1905. Eulima polita, Kobelt, Icon, schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch, vol. iii, p. 188, pi. Ixxvii, fig. 1. 

 1914. Eulima polita, Cerulli-Irelli, Palaeout. Ital., vol. xx, p. 244, pi. xxi, figs. 42-45. 



Specific Characters. — Shell strong, solid, and opaque, glossy, elongato-conical ; 

 whorls nearly flat, compact, gradually enlarging, the last about one-third the total 

 length, scul[)ture microscopical; spire long, cylindrical, regularly tapering, the 

 upper part occasionally curved ; suture linear, slightly oblique ; mouth ovate, 

 angulate above, rounded below, a trifle expanded; outer lip gently curved; inner 

 lip rather wide, thickened behind the pillar; base rounded, not angulate. 



Dimensions.- — L. 7 — 15 mm. B. 3 — 5 mm. 



Distribntion. — Recent : British seas, from Jersey to Unst, generally distributed. 

 Finmark, Norwegian coast to the Mediterranean, Adriatic and ..^gean. 



Fossil : St, Erth. Coralline Crag : Sutton, Boyton. Waltonian : 

 Walton-on-Naze, Little Oakley. Newbournian : Waldringfield, Sutton. Butleyan : 

 Butley. Icenian : Bramerton, Portrush. 



Lower Pliocene : Biot. 



Upper Pliocene : Astiano, Monte Mario, Val d'Era, Bologna, Livorno. 



Pleistocene : Messina, Ficarazzi, Livorno, Valle Biaia. Christiania — Isocardia 

 and I^ajses -banks. 



