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v.lilacina (Mog.): Animal lilac or brown-lilac, spot- 
ess, 
v. albida (Picard): Animal greyish-white, spotless, with 
sometimes two lateral greyish-bands (scarcely obvious) on 
the mantle. 
v. sylvatica (Drap.): Animal greyish, mottled. 
v. cineracea (Mogq.): Animal greyish-white, mantle ashy 
(=type). 
v. reticulata (Mull): Animal red or reddish-grey, with 
irregular blackish spots. 
v. nigricans ( Westerl): Animal grey, variegated with 
black spots crowded together; tentacles and neck with a 
black line on the sides. 
v.submaculata (Williams): Body greyish - white, 
streaked with seal-brown on the back, which extends on to 
the mantle and covers its posterior two-thirds; the sides 
of the body and the anterior third of the mantle are free 
from streaks and spotted with black. 
v. tristis (Moq.): Animal brownish, mantle with two 
lateral brown bands, and sometimes a third intermediate 
band. 
EULIMAX (LIMAX) LAEVIS, MULL. 
SHELL unguiform, convex above, flat beneath, glossy, solid ; 
margin sharp, slightly incurved, not membranous ; nucleus 
terminal. Animal very glossy, dark brown tinged with 
violet, slender; mantle very tumid behind, pale yellowish- 
brown, nearly transparent ; sole ash-coloured ; respiratory 
orifice near the centre of the right margin of the mantle; 
slime almost colourless. Length 3-3 inch. 
Hatitat.—In damp situations, under stones, and logs of 
wood. 
v. maculata (7. D. A. Cockerell): Animal differing 
from the typical form in being spotted with dark brown. 
