28 CRETACEOUS LAMELLIBRANCHTA. 



Affinities. — Lima subclypeiformis, Futterer, 1 is stated to be related to L. clypei- 

 formis. 



Remarks. — This is the largest species of Lima known in the Cretaceous of 

 England. I have seen two specimens only, one of which is in the Museum of the 

 Somersetshire Archosological and Natural History Society at Taunton, and the 

 other in the Exeter Museum. The occurrence of this species in England was first 

 recorded by Mr. Jukes-Browne. 2 



Type. — D'Orbigny's specimens came from the Cenomanian of Le Mans, etc. 



Distribution. — Topmost bed of the Upper Greensand of Chard. 



Sub-genus — Mantellum, J. F. Bolten, 1798. 



('Mus. Bolten.,' 2, p. 160.) 



Lima (Mantellum) paeallela (Sowerby) 1812. Plate V, figs. 14, 15 a — d. 



1812. Modiola parallela, J. de C. Sowerby. Min. Conch., vol. i, p. 31, pi. ix 



(right-hand top figure). 

 1842. Lima elegans, A. Leymerie. Mem. Soc. geol. de France, vol. v, p. 27, 



pi. vi, fig. 6. (Non Dujardin, non Nilsson.) 



1845. — elongata, E. Forbes. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. i, p. 248. 



1846. — elegans, A. Leymerie. Statist, geol. et min. de l'Aube, pi. vi, fig. 7. 



1847. — Cottaldina, A. d'Orbigny. Pal. Franc. Terr. Oct., vol. iii, p. 537, 



pi. ccccxvi, figs. 1 — 5. 

 1850. d'Orbigny. Prodr. de Pal, vol. ii, p. 119. 



1854. — parallela, J. Morris. Cat. Brit. Foss, ed. 2, p. 171. 



1855. Cottaldina, G. Cotteau. Moll. Foss. de l'Yonne, p. 101. 



1858. — J". Vilanova-y-Piera. Mem. geog.-agric. de Castellon, 



pi. ii, fig. 15. 

 — — parallela, F. J. Pidet and E. Eenevier. Foss. Terr. Aptien (Mater. 



Pal. Suisse, ser. 1), p. 126, 

 pi. xix, fig. 1. 

 1865. — — H. Coquand. Mon. Aptien de l'Espagne, p. 148. 



1869. — Cottaldina, F. J. Pidet and G. Campidie. Foss. Terr. Cret. Ste. 



Croix (Mater. Pal. Suisse, ser. 5), 

 p. 151, pi. clxvi, fig. 1. 



1883. — farringdonensis, W. Keeping. Foss, etc, Neoc. Upware and Brick- 



hill, p. 112, pi. v, fig. 12. 



1884. — Cottaldina, O. Weerth. Die Fauna des Neocom. im Teutoburg. 



Walde (Palseont. Abhandl, vol. ii), p. 52. 



1 ' Kreidebild. d. Santa Croce in den Venetianer Alpen' (Palaeont. Abhandl, vol. vi, 1892), 

 p. 78, fig. 23. 



2 ' Proc. Somerset Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc,' vol. xlix, 1903. 



