LIMAX. 195 



Var. FUSCUS, Bettoni (fig. 55). Brownish red. with red carina 

 and an interrupted red zone on either side ; shield brownish ; 

 pulmonary orifice brown-margined ; sole obscurely margined. 



Var. TACCANII, Pini (fig. 56). Brown, the shield darker, cariua 

 and dorsal line blood-red ; pulmonary orifice dark-margined ; 

 sole with central zone pinkish, laterals dusky. 



Var. GUALTERII, Pini (fig, 54). Differs from var. Taccanii in 

 having a red zone additional on either flank. 



Var. MACULATUS, Lessona. Reddish brown, lighter on the back, 

 irregularly quadrifasciate with black maculations, carina 

 shortly red-striped. 



Var. PALLESCENS, Lessona. Light reddish brown, with six zones 

 of black macnlations, carina light reddish ; shield brownish, 

 with darker brown nebulous maculations, and two or three 

 black spots at the posterior margin. 



Var. RUFESCENS, Lessona. Reddish brown, lighter on the sides, 

 carinal stripe red, large ; with biseriate black spots. 



Var. MONOCROMUS, Lessona and Pollonera (var. erytrus, Pini, 

 non L. erytrus, Bonrg.). Red, imicolored ; disk brown- 

 zoned. 



Var. VILL^E, Pini (fig. 57). Reddish, the carina and rugosities 

 blood-red, irregularly quadrizonate with black spots ; shield 

 reddish brown, unspotted ; pulmonary orifice red-margined ; 

 sole with pink central and dusky lateral zones. 



Var. TURATII, Pini (fig. 58). Reddish ash, unspotted, with red 

 carination ; pulmonary orifice margined with bluish gray ; 

 sole }^ellowish white, unicolored. 



L. ERYTHRUS, Boui'g. PI. 49, figs. 64, 65. 



Carina acute ; brownish red, unspotted ; shield black-shaded 

 on either side, a little produced in front, more strongly angu- 

 lated behind ; tentacles dark ; sole with lateral darker zones. 



Length, 5 inches. 



Grande Chartreuse, Savoy. 



Lessona and Pollonera distinguish this from the L. erythrus 

 which Pini and themselves consider a var. of L. cinereo-niger. 

 I cannot see that it has much character. 



