THE NAUTILUS. 



Vou XXVII. MAY, 1913. No. 1 



A SLUG OF THE GENUS VEEONICELLA FROM GUATEMALA. 



BY T. D. A. COCKEREL!.. 



At Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, Mr. E. Bethel recently found a 

 Veronicella, which he brought to me alive. Among the species re- 

 corded from Mexico and Central America, it closely resembles only 

 V. mexicana (Pfeffer), which occurs at Vera Cruz. It appears to 

 be distinguished by the broad sole, and female orifice well caudad of 

 the middle and very close to the sole. Internally, the accessory 

 glands are numerous and very long. On the whole, however, it is so 

 close to V. mexicana that I record it as a variety ; its status will only 

 be precisely determined when more material is available for compar- 

 ison. It is not impossible that V. mexicana was composite ; certainly 

 the example sent by Strebel to Semper seems doubtfully identical 

 with the animal figured in Strebel's work on the Molluscaof Mexico. 



One species of Veronice/la, V. stolli von Martens, has already been 

 described from Guatemala. Its anatomy is unknown, but it is read- 

 ily known from Mr. Bethel's slug by the presence of a narrow 

 median longitudinal yellow band. It may be that V. stolli is iden- 

 tical with V. olivacea Stearns from Nicaragua. An unnamed Veron- 

 icella from Honduras, briefly described in NAUTILUS, April, 1895, 

 p. 142, seems on the whole intermediate between our slug and V- 

 mexicana. It is most probably conspecific with our animal, but it 

 may represent a different, allied, species. Its anatomy i. -inknown. 



