90 . The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
EULIMAX (LIMAX) FLAVUS, LINN. 
SHELL oblong or quadrangular, thin, concave; margin 
membranaceous ; nucleus slightly prominent. Animal 
fleshy, yellow, tessellated with blackish-brown and white, 
coarsely tuberculated, keeled towards the end of its tail; 
mantle short, broadly rounded behind, concentrically 
striated ; head, neck, and tentacles slate-colour ; sole milk- 
white ; foot-margin pale yellow; slime yellow. 
Hatitat.—Cellars and damp places. 
v. grisea (Roebuck): Animal like the type, but with 
the ground-colour grey instead of yellow. 
v. suffusa (Roebuck): Animal grey, unicolor. 
v. virescens. (Fér.): Animal greenish, spots indistinct. 
v. colubrina (Pini.): “Flavus, clypeo dorsoque late ac 
irregulariter nigro-maculato interstitiis flavis maculas 
nigras sequantibus.” 
EULIMAX (LIMAX) AGRESTIS, LINN. 
SHELL small, oval, concave beneath, thin, rugose ; nucleus 
small, slightly excentric; margin membranaceous. Animal 
generally yellowish, mottled with dusky and whitish, but 
varying greatly in colour; mantle large, broadly rounded 
behind, concentrically striated; back with a short keel, 
which is always placed obliquely ; foot pale grey, or cream 
colour; slime milk white. Length ; to 3 inches. 
Habitat.—Fields, gardens, and woods. Widely distri- 
buted. 
v. nigra (Butterell): Animal jet black, tentacles bluish 
or brownish-black, with the sole pale. 
v. filans (Hoy): Animal greyish-white or ashy; mantle 
_ yellowish. 
v. punctata (Mog.): Animal greyish or white, with very 
small black spots. 
