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EULIMAX (LIMAX) MAXIMUS, LINN. 
SuHEtt oblong, solid, flat, slightly concave; margin mem- 
branaceous; nucleus small, subterminal. Body large, 
varying in colour from ashy-grey to black, slightly car- 
inated towards the tail; tentacles long, vinous coloured ; 
mantle buckler-shaped, swollen, produced behind; slime 
whitish. Length 3-6 inches. 
Habitat. — Cellars, gardens, woods, hedgerows, &c. 
Widely distributed. 
v. cinerea (Moqg.): Animal ashy, spotless, mantle 
bluish-black. 
v. Ferrussaci (Mog.): Animal whitish, with four rows 
of black spots on mantle and body. 
v. cellaria (D’Argenville): Animal ashy, mantle spot- 
ted with black, back with bands of the same colour, inter- 
rupted, and presenting alternating lines and points. 
v. maculata (Picard, Mog.): Animal ashy, mantle and 
back with irregular black spots. 
v. Johnstoni (Moqg.): Animal ashy, mantle spotted 
with black; back marked with spots and two bands of the 
same colour. [Subvar lilacina (Roebuck): Animal re- 
_ sembling the type, except that the ground colour is lilac, 
instead of ashy. | 
v. fasciata (Mog.): Animal of a deep ash colour with | 
whitish bands, often five in number. 
v. obscura (Moqg.): Animal brown, unicolor. 
v. rufescens (Mog.): Animal reddish, unicolor. 
v. marmorata (7. D. A. Cockerell): Animal light 
greyish-brown ; mantle marbled and spotted, darker in the 
anterior, and lighter in the posterior part (where it shades 
into a grey); the bands are grey, ill-defined, but fairly 
distinct, and there are black spots scattered here and there. 
EULIMAX (LIMAX) CINEREO-NIGER, WOLE. 
RESEMBLES closely Eulimax maximus, with which it was 
