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Var. submaculata *, Williams : body greyish-white, 

 streaked with seal-brown on the back, which extends 

 into the mantle and covers its posterior two-thirds ; 

 the sides of the body and the anterior third of the 

 mantle are free from streaks and spotted with black. 

 This new variety seems to me intermediate between 

 Moquin-Tandon's/K«^«A2 and Westerlund's varians. 

 It was sent to me by Miss M. E. Williams, from 

 Stourport. 



Var. atritentaculata, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 greyish-white, spotless, tentacles black. Savoy and 

 Haute- Savoie. (The same authors describe a var. 

 alhitcntaculata as " blanc-grisatre, sans taches, avec 

 les flancs parfois un peu plus clairs," but this seems 

 to me very much like playing with names.) 



Vzx.fasciata, Dumont and Mortillet : animal white, 

 with a black band on the sides. This variety is 

 common in the Alpine and subalpine regions of 

 France. 



Var. rufescens, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 yellowish, spotless, bandless. Common in the French 

 subalpine regions. 



Var. nigricans *, Westerl. : animal grey, variegated 

 with black spots crowded together ; tentacles and 

 neck with a black line on the sides. Scandinavian. 

 (Rests as British on doubtful grounds.) 



Var. Veranyani, Boettger : animal ashy, marked 

 with small black spots (= var. punctata, Moq. ?). 

 Italian. Found by Lessona in Liguria. 



Var. florentina, Lessona and Pollonera : animal 

 large, white, ornamented with blackish-brown spots. 

 Found in Tuscany near Florence, by Lessona. 



Var. aurata, Lessona : shield and back yellow, 

 unicolor ; tentacles black. Found at Groscavallo in 

 the valley of the Lanzo, by Lessona. Italian. 



LlMAX maximus, Linn. — Found in nearly all 

 France, and in a great part of central Europe, 

 Finland, Russia, Corsica, Madeira, and the Azores. 



Var. Ferrussaci*, Moq. : animal whitish, with four 

 rows of black spots on mantle and body. French. 

 In Italy it has been found in Lombardy by Pini, in 

 Tuscany and Calabria by Paulucci, and in Sardinia 

 by Gene. 



Var. cellaria *, D'Argenville : animal ashy, mantle 

 spotted with black, back with bands of the same 

 colour, interrupted, and presenting alternating lines 

 and points. Common everywhere, according to Lo- 

 card, in France, and according to Lessona common 

 in Italy. 



Var. quadrifasciata, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 ashy, with the superior bands entire ; the inferior 

 band presents some alternating lines or points. Found 

 in Savoy and Haute- Savoie, but rare. French. 



Var. continuata, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 ashy, with three entire black bands on each side. 

 Moderately common in Savoy and Haute-Savoie 

 (Locard). French. 



Var. maculata* (Picard), Moq. : animal ashy, 

 mantle and back with irregular black spots. Picard 



found this in the valley of the Somme, and according 

 to Locard it is common in the Savoy and in Isere. 

 Lessona and Pollonera describe it as occurring in all 

 Italy and in Sardinia. 



Var. nebulosa, Dumont and Mortillet: "Animal 

 cendre, les fascies se fondant dans une teinte generate 

 qui se rebrunit" (Locard, in his "Etudes sur les 

 variations malacologiques d'apres la faune vivante et 

 fossile de la partie australe du Bassin du Rhone"). 

 Found at Saint-Gervais in France, but very rare. 



Var. vulgaris *, Moq. : animal grey, shield spotted 

 with black ; back banded with the same colour 

 (— type). Common almost everywhere, both in 

 Britain and France. In Italy De Bette found it at 

 Veneto, Issel in Tuscany, and Paulucci in Calabria. 



Var. serpentina, Moq. : animal ashy, shield spotted 

 with black ; back with some bands of the same co- 

 lour, the two middle ones being straight and scarcely 

 bent, the two intermediate ones larger and in an 

 irregular zigzag, while the two marginal ones are 

 interrupted. Found by Locard, where it is mode- 

 rately common, in the environs of Lyons. Italian. 



Var. Johnstoni* ; , Moq. : animal ashy, mantle 

 spotted with black ; back marked with spots and two 

 bands of the same colour. French. Pini found it in 

 Lombardy. (Roebuck describes a subvar. lilacina 

 as British, which differs from the above only in the 

 ground-colour being lilac instead of ashy.) 



Var. Aldrovandi, Moq. : animal ashy, back with 

 some whitish spots. French. 



Var. fasciata *, Moq. : animal of a deep ash colour 

 with whitish bands, often five in number. Moquin 

 found this in the Pyrenees, and Lessona describes it 

 from Piedmont. 



Var. limbata, Moq. : animal ashy, foot-margin 

 white. French. 



Var. Miilkri : animal ashy, back with white bands, 

 and a double row of black spots. French. 



Var. cinerea *, Moq. : animal ashy, spotless, mantle 

 bluish-black. French. 



Var. obscura *, Moq. : animal wholly brown. 

 Moquin-Tandon found this in the environs of Paris. 



Var. rufescens *, Moq. : animal reddish, unicolor, 

 more or less pale. French. Environs of Paris. 



Var. Candida, Less. : animal white. Italian. Found 

 by Paulucci in Nivoli. 



Var. concolor, , Pini : animal pale ashy, sole and 

 keel paler, mantle grey. Pini found this in Esino 

 and Lombardy, and Paulucci in Tuscany. Italian. 



Var. bivonce, Lessona and Pollonera : animal fus- 

 cous, chestnut-coloured, unicolor. Found in Palermo 

 by Doderlein. Italian. 



Var, sordida, Less. : animal pale brown, back 

 fuscous ; keel and two pale bands often obsolete. 

 Found in Tuscany. Italian. 



Var. marmorata *, Cockerell : animal light greyish- 

 brown ; mantle marbled and spotted, darker in the 

 anterior and lighter in the posterior part (where it 

 shades into a grey) ; the bands are grey, ill-defined, 



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