204 . LIMACID^ 



Genus : 3. MILAX, Gray. 



Etym. : — Anagram of Umax, a slug. 

 Type : — Limax gagates, Draparnaud. 

 (Li max, vett. auctt.) 



?1833. Aspidoporus : Fitzinger, Beitr. Landesk. Oeslerr., iii, 



p. 90. 



1851. KrynicTcillus [pars]: Kaleniczenko, Bidl. Soc. Nats. 



Moscow, xxiv, p. 219. 



1855 1 



. ' > Milax : Gray, Gat. Pidmonata Brit. Mus., i, p. 174. 



1855,\ Amalia, subg. I of Limax : Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll. 

 Sept.j France, ii, p. 19. 



1876. Amalia [as a genus] : Pini, Bidl. Soc. Malac. Ilal., ii, 

 p. 104. 



Sub-gen. : Milax, s.s. 



1855. Milax: Gray, Cat. Pidmon. Brit. Mus., i, p. 174. 

 1868. Lallemantia [n. gen.] : Mabille, Rev. & Mag. Zool., 



Ser. II, torn, xx, p. 143. 

 n876. Palizzolia : Bourguignat, Bull. Soc. Sci. phys. & 



nat. Toidouse, iii, p. 59. 

 1882. Pirainea : Lessona & Pollonera, Monog. Limacidi 



Ital., p. 57. (Mem,. Accad. Sci. Torino, 



Ser. II, torn, xxxv, 1884, p. 103.) 



Sub-gen. : Tandonia, Lessona & Pollonera. 

 Etym. : — Named in honour of Moquin-Tandon. 

 Ty2)e : — Milax sowerhii (Ferussac). 



1882. Tandonia : Lessona & Pollonera, Monog. 

 Limacidi Itcd., p. 54. (Mem. Accad. Sci. 

 Torino, Ser. II, torn, xxxv, 1884, p. 100.) 



1. Milax (s.s.) gagates (Draparnaud). 



Etym. : — Gr. yayar?;?, jet, brown coal, or lignite. 



1801. Limax gagates : Draparnaud, Tabl. Moll. France, p. 100. 

 1805. Limax gagates : D'rkta.v.^a.vd, Hist. Moll. France, ^.122, 



pi. ix, f. 1 & 2. 

 1824. Limax maurus, N. : Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 



Zool, p. 427. 

 1826. Limax gagates, Drap. : Risso, Hist. Nat. Europ. merid., 



iv, p. 55. 

 1839. Limax carenata, d'Orb. : Orbigny, in Webb & Berthelot, 



Hist. Nat. lies Canaries, ii, pt. 2, p. 47, 



pi. iii, f. 4-8. 



