LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA OF SCOTLAND 105 



I propose to continue my notes from time to time in The 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History \ regularly if possible, at 

 all events as often as the kindness of Scottish naturalists will 

 keep the recorder and referees of the Conchological Society 

 supplied with material for authentication. It is to be 

 understood that these papers will not deal (unless in very 

 exceptional cases) with any records except such as have 

 been authenticated by the submission of the actual specimens 

 to the society's referees. 



The present instalment is mainly devoted to slugs. I 

 have some testaceous species to report in a future paper, but 

 at present their examination is not completed. 



1. Limax flavus in Kirkcudbright shire. — On the 20th 

 July of 1 89 1 I received from Mr. Robert Service a nearly 

 adult example of Limax flavus, which is an additional species 

 for the county and brings up its authenticated total to 54. 

 He also sent a small example of Limax maximus vzx.ferussaci. 

 Both were from a damp cellar in his house at Maxwelltown, 

 where the two species occur very commonly. L. flavus is a 

 species which (although it occurs abundantly enough in cellars) 

 is very seldom sent me, and as yet I have seen it from but 

 five Scottish counties, viz., Kirkcudbright, Renfrew, Edinburgh, 

 Fife, and Elgin. 



2. Limax cinereo-niger, etc. in Elginshire. — I am 



indebted to Mr. William Evans for the sight of a couple of 

 examples of this rarity from Cromdale, Elginshire, on the 

 25 th August of this year. One was about three-fourths 

 grown and with the trifasciated footsole which is one of the 

 distinguishing characters of the species. The other was a 

 small one, and had not the coloured side-bands of the keel, 

 but it was nevertheless unmistakably of the same species. 

 From the same locality Mr. Evans sent me Limax arborum, 

 several of the typical form and pale in colour, an adult Arion 

 subfuscus, and A. ater i also adult, all of these being additions 

 to the authenticated county list, which now numbers 52 

 species. A fine adult A. ater from near the old heronry on 

 the Findhorn, was also sent me in verification of its existence 

 in the county by the Rev. Dr. Gordon, on the ;th September. 

 Mr. Evans's Cromdale gatherings also included an adult 



