The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 89 
AMALIA (LIMAX) GAGATES, DRAPARNAUD. 
SHELL oval, rugous, thick from nucleus to centre; nucleus 
subterminal, blunt. Animal varying in colour from lead- 
grey and black to dark red, somewhat fusiform in shape; 
mantle granulated, oblong, bilobed, rounded behind, 
truncated somewhat anteriorily; dorsal tentacles dusty 
slate-colour, the ventral pair being paler; back distinctly 
carinated ; slime colourless, thick, glutinous. 
Habitat.—Gardens and hedgerows. Local. 
v. olivacea (Mog.): Animal deep grey ; olive-coloured. 
v. plumbens (Mog.): Animal blackish-grey, more 
or less lead-coloured. 
v. rava (Williams): Animal drab-coloured, slightly 
fuscous, with the mantle of a lighter colour than the 
back. 
AMALIA (LIMAX) MARGINATA, MULL. 
Suet elliptical, slightly concave, lines of growth well 
pronounced ; nucleus nearly terminal. Animal truncated 
in front, attenuated behind, reddish-brown or yellowish in 
colour; mantle of an elongated oval shape, granulated ; 
head and tentacles dusky; keel prominent, always of a 
lighter colour than the rest of the back; slime colourless, 
glutinous. 
Habitat.—Gardens and fields. 
v. rufula (Mog.): Animal yellowish-red. 
v. rustica (Millet): Animal greyish, mantle reddish, 
with a longitudinal black band on each side; mantle 
whitish. 
