The Shell-Collector’'s Handbook. 8 
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ARION ATER, LINN. 
SHELL composed of loosely aggregated calcareous granules. 
Body varying in colour from black to brown, yellow, and 
yellowish-white, rounded in front, attenuated behind, and 
covered with coarse and prominent tubercles; mantle 
finely shagreened; tentacles black, with the bulbs much 
swollen; foot marked with transverse black lines; slime 
yellowish. Length 2-5 inches. 
Hahitat.—W oods, thickets, gardens, and hedge-banks. 
v. Draparnaudi (Moqg.): Animal dark-red, foot-fringe 
yellowish or reddish. 
v. succinea (Mull.): Animal yellowish, unicolor. 
v. bicolor (V. Brock) Mog.: Animal dark brown, or 
blackish, sides yellowish or orange. 
v. nigrescens (Moq.): Animal blackish, foot-fringe 
yellowish or reddish. 
v. marginata (Moqg.): Animal black, foot-fringe 
yellow, orange, or lead-coloured. 
v. pallescens (Mog.): Animal dirty-white, a little 
reddish or yellowish. 
v. rufa (Zinn.): Animal red or brownish, unicolor. 
(=L. rufus, Linn, Syst. Nat., Edit. x., 1758, p. 652). 
v. albolateralis (Ashford): Animal! dark-brown or 
blackish, with the sides white, and the foot-fringe orange ; 
the two last colours being sharply defined from one 
another 
v. pallescens (Roebuck): Animal light yellow. 
v. reticulata (Roebuck): The rugosities are very pale, 
dirty-yellow, or nearly white, and the interstices between 
them grey, giving the whole body a beautiful and distinct 
reticulated appearance. The mantle is uniform grey, and 
the foot-fringe is pale and rather orange-tawny, with the 
usual black lines. 
