LAME LLIBRAN CHIATA. 
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Genus Lima. 
L. Loscombii, Sow. 
Dredged very sparingly, alive, in the deeper portions of Belfast and 
Strangford Loughs, on sandy and shelly ground. Single valves of large 
size obtained in quantity from 23 fathoms, at the entrance to the former, 
by Mr. Hyndman. Obtained occasionally in the stomach of haddock 
taken on the North-East coast. In that fish and in gurnard Mr. Humphreys 
has found it at Cork. 
L. tenera, Turt. 
The Ordnance Museum contains upon a card a fresh-looking specimen 
of this shell, and one of Lima fragilis labelled with the latter name, as 
dredged from 7 fathoms in Belfast Bay. L. tenera has long been known 
to me as found by Dr. Wm. M‘Gee in a recent deposit of mud in Belfast 
Bay, close to the town. 
Near Sana Island, off the Mull of Cantire, Mr. Hyndman dredged single 
valves of this species in profusion. See Paper in Ann. N. H., vol. x. 
L. subauriculata, Mont. 
Extremely rare. Two odd valves dredged from about 8 fathoms — sand 
— in Strangford Lough, in 1837, by Mr. Hyndman and W. T. In the 
course of a day’s dredging in the following year I obtained a single valve 
in the same Lough. 
Dead shells from Belfast Bay are in the Ordnance Collection. A single 
valve"dredged from 23 fathoms — shelly sand — in this bay by Mr. Hynd- 
man, with quantities of single valves of L. fragilis of large size. 
Division Dimyaria. 
Family Aviculada:. 
Genus Avicula. 
A. Atlantica , Lam. 
“ It was first observed as a native by Miss Hutchins in Bantry Bay, 
and announced as British by Mr. Sowerby in his Min. Conch, i. 14.” 
Flem. Brit. Anim., p. 405. 
Dublin Bay, Dr. Turton ; by whom it was found there. 
Avicula hirundo is the name applied to the species in both instances. 
See Lam., vol. vii. p. 99, 2nd edit. In Mr. Warren’s collection I have seen 
a specimen in 1839, which was found in the latter locality by that gentle- 
man, and a second one in his possession was stated by the person from 
whom he obtained it to have been found there. 
who stated that he procured them from Lough _ Foyle, County Londonderry. 
This evidence, as Dr. Farran remarks, is not sufficient ; but it seems desirable to 
notice the circumstance, as the species, which inhabits the western coast of Scot- 
land, may probably occur on the neighbouring coast of Ireland. I have seen 
fine specimens from Lough Fyne, Argyleshire. Pecten glaber, Penn, and Mont., 
believed to be identical with this, has been obtained by Mr. Humphreys at Cork. 
(Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. v. p. 12.) 
