INDIAN DEEP-SEA BIVALVES. 



Fig. 78. — Lima iiidica, from off the Travancore coast, 430 fathoms. 

 This species is supposed by its author, Mr E. A, Smith, to be hardly 

 more than a variety of the Norwegian Lima cxcavata. 



Fig. 79. — Amussiu7n alcocki, from the Laccadive Sea, 740 fathoms. 

 The left-hand figure shows the outside, the right-hand figure the inside, 

 of this delicate shell. 



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