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the Seine-ct-Marne ; Drouet from the Vosges ; Mo- 

 relet from Alsace ; Dumont and Mortillet from Savoy 

 and Haute- Savoie ; Locard from the Rhone and 

 the Ain ; Dubreuil from Herault ; and Lecoq from 

 Auvergne. 



Var. kucogastra, Morch. : animal brown, banded, 

 foot unicolor, white. French. 



Var. cinereo-ncbulosa, Malm. : animal whitish, 

 mantle and keel pale yellow, approaching to a cloudy 

 ash colour ; hinder portion of abdomen spotted ; foot 

 unicolor, whitish. French. 



Var. fasciata, Westerl. : animal ashy, with five 

 wide undulating black bands. Scandinavian. 



Var. Jlavescens, Westerl. ; animal yellowish uni- 

 color ; foot obsoletely bicolored. Scandinavian. 

 Var. alba, Paasch : animal white, unicolor. 

 Var. vera, Dumont and Mortillet : animal ashy- 

 black, with two black bands on each side. Found in 

 Savoy and Haute-Savoie, but rare. French. 



Var. subinterrapta, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 like the preceding, but with the bands interrupted. 

 French. Rare. Savoy and Haute-Savoie. 



Var. cfasciata, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 brown, bandless. French. Rare. 



Var. pallescens, Dumont and Mortillet : animal 

 whitish, more or less pale ( = var. alba, Paasch ?). 

 French. Savoy and Haute-Savoie. 



Var. albipes, Dumont and Mortillet : animal brown, 

 with the external and inferior side of the foot white. 

 French. Found in the environs of Bonneville. 



Var. hictuosa, Moq. : animal very black, with the 

 keel yellowish, differing from the type in the keel 

 being reduced to one-half or two-thirds. French. 

 Found near Grand-Chartreuse in Isere. 



Var. nigra, Moq. : anynal wholly black. Found 

 in France near Grand-Chartreuse, and in Savoy and 

 Haute-Savoie. ( = var. manra, Held.) (In Italy 

 this variety was found by Lessona in Piemonte. ) 



Var. Pavesii, Pini : animal dark chestnut with 

 lateral blackish-blue bands on the sides. Italian. 

 Pini found this in Lombardy, and Paulucci in Tus- 

 cany and Piedmonte. 



Var. Cameraiii, Lessona and Pollonera : animal 

 small, dark chestnut, with the keel and dorsal zone 

 dirty white. Length, 8-10 cent. Found by Lessona 

 at Maccugnagna. Italian. 



Limax arborum, B.-Ch.— This is a local slug in 

 England. In France, Bouchard-Chautereaux at Pas- 

 de-Calais ; Morguet in the Nord ; Servain in Aisne ; 

 Mabille and Jousseaume in Oise, Seine-et-Oise, 

 La Seine, and in Seine-et-Marne ; Fischer in Mont- 

 Dore ; Millet in Maine-et-Loire and Mayenne ; Fagot 

 in Lozere and Ariege ; Dubreuil in Herault ; and 

 Mabille near the North-Coast. In Italy it seems to 

 be moderately common, and Lessona describes, under 

 the name of Lehmannia mafginata, Mull., three new 

 varieties as occurring in that country. 



Var. ncmorosa, Baudon : animal like the type, but 



with two longitudinal blackish bands on the back, 

 and with the sides often spotted ; keel short. French, 

 Italian. 



Var. Bettomi*, Sordelli : animal ornamented on 

 the back with white and fuscous spots ; median band 

 white, with two accompanying fuscous bands ; median 

 band on mantle white, with two alternating white 

 and fuscous lateral bands ; keel short. Italian. 



Var. Alpestris, Less. : animal with the keel larger 

 up to one-half of back ; shield often with obscure 

 confused blackish bands ; back with a pale median 

 band. Italian. 



Var. fallens, Less.: "pallescens, dorso, zonula 

 pallida, et usque ad flongitudinis carinato ; clypeo 

 pallido, zonis obscuris subobsoletis." Italian. 



Var. mpicola, Less. : " minor, nigricans ; zonula 

 pallida, dorsali obsoletavel nulla, carina subtillissima 

 usque ad fdorsi producta, clypeo subuni-colore vel 

 omnino nigro." Italian. 



Testacella haliotidea, Drap. — Besides being 

 found in England, this snail-slug exists in a great 

 part of Europe, and more particularly in the central 

 mountainous regions, Corsica, Sicily, Spain, Portu- 

 gal, Algeria, Madeira, and the Canary Isles. 



Y&x.Jlaveseens, Moq. : animal canary-yellow, shell 

 a little larger anteriorly than posteriorly. French. 



Var. albina, Moq. : animal whitish or dirty white ; 

 shell larger in front than behind. French. Found 

 by Sarrat at Toulouse. 



Var. ovalis, Moq. : animal yellowish-grey, shell 

 subelliptical or oval. French. 



Var. scutulum *, Sowerby : animal yellowish ; shell 

 narrower in front than behind. 



Subvar. pallida '*, Cockerell : animal pale 

 yellowish, without markings. 



Subvar. aurea* , Cockerell: animal orange 

 with brown markings. 



Subvar. albida, Cockerell : animal pure white. 



Gibraltar. 



Var. Companyonii, Moq. : shell large, narrower 



in front than behind (vide Dup., The colour of 



this is not given. " Hist. Moll." 1S47). French. 



Companyo found this in the Oriental Pyrenees. 



Var. bisitlcata, Moq. : animal spotted with brown- 

 red above, yellow or orange on the sides ; shell 

 small, very depressed, narrower iu front than behind. 

 French. Found by Monton in the Var. 



Testacella Maugei, Fer. — This slug was prob- 

 ably imported with some exotic plants into England. 

 It was first found, where probably it was acclimatised, 

 in the Bristol Botanical Gardens in 1S30. A green 

 variety, viridans, has been recorded as British. 



There are two doubtful varieties recorded of Gea- 

 malacus maculosus, Allman, as Irish, but of which I 

 cannot find any descriptions. They are var. Allmani, 

 Heyn, and var. Verkrarciti, Heyn- Forbes and 



