86 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
ARION FLAVUS, MULL. 
SHELL white, opaque, wrinkled. Animal pale yellowish- 
grey; head, neck, and tentacles dark grey or blackish ; 
mantle clearly granulated, more oblong than in A. ater, 
and marked with small white specks ; respiratory aperture 
near the centre of the right margin of the mantle; tail 
angulated ; slime yellow. 
Hatitat— Among dead leaves, and decaying vegetable 
matter. 
‘ARION HORTENSIS, FERUSSAC. 
SHELL composed of granules cemented together into an 
oval mass. Animal smaller and more slender than A. ater, 
marked with longitudinal grey bands ; mantle with a band 
round its margins, and one down its middle; edge of foot 
yellow, orange, or red-coloured; slime yellowish. Length, 
1-13 inches. 
Haiitat.—W oods, hedges and gardens. 
v. fasciata (Mog.): Animal grey, with black bands. 
v. rufescens (Moqg.); Animal reddish, black bands. 
v. grisea (Moq.): Animal pale grey, unicolor. 
ARION SUBFUSCUS, DRAPARNAUD. 
SHELL represented by a few isolated calcareous granules. 
Animal of a medium size and cylindrical in outline ; 
reddish brown, with two lateral faint blackish bands ; 
mantle very convex, slightly gibbous in front, paler than — 
back, with two lateral black bands; tentacles blackish ; 
back in its hinder portion subcarinated, and finely scaled ; 
respiratory aperture nearly median; foot grey, marked 
with small transverse black lneoles ; slime saffron-yellow. 
Length 40-60 mill.; width 60-10. 
Habitat.—W oods and damp places. 
