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ABIOXIUili. 



463. Anadenus altivagus, TheohaW, 



Limax altivayus, Theobald, J. A. S. B. xxi, 1862, p. 489. 



Anadenus altivagtis, Theobald, Cat. Laud and Frej-hw. Shells Brit. 

 India, 1876, addenda, p. i ; Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 6o ; 

 Theobald, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 47 ; Godwin- Austen, Moll. India, 

 i, 1882, p. 49, pi. 6, tig-. 1 (animal), tigs. 2-7 (anatoni}-), pi. 7, 

 tig. 1 (shell), tigs. 5, 6 (anatomy) ; Trvon, Man. Conch, ser. 2, i, 

 1885, p. 249, pi. 59, tig. G2 (animal) : "Pilsbry, Proc. Make. Soc. 

 London, iii, 1898, p. 95, pi. 7, tigs. 1-3, 5-7 (anatomy). 



Anadenus (Altivagus) altivagus, Cockerell, The Conchologist, ii, 

 1893, p. 192. 



Original description : — " Corpore limaciformi, pallio lente- 

 granuloso, dorso x-ugose reticulato, more frondis brassicse, colore 

 virescente-fusco sive lutesceute-fulvo, interdum nigresceute, et 

 rarissinie pallide aurautiaco pallio, minus eolorato corpora. 

 Tentaculis qiiatuor iiigris, capite nigro, infra pallescente. Ano ad 

 dextrum latus pallii, prope marginem posito, ad mediam partem 

 vix attingente. 



" Lougitiidinis (corpore extenso), 9 unc." {Theobald.) 



Hah. CissLitlej Hills, near Tagu, Narkanda, Saraou, etc., 0000 

 to 9000 ft. 



" This Limax is rather variable in colour, and large specimens, 

 when in motion and extended, exceed 9 inches in length, though 

 their ordinary dimensions is about 6. It feeds on fungi." 



Fig. 14f). —Anadenus aftivagiis. 

 (Shell. Copied from Land, and Freshw. Moll. India.) 



This somewhat cursory description is amplified by the excellent 

 account given by Godwin-Austen as follows : — 



External description of animal (from spirit specimen') collected at 

 Simla : — " Slug-like, rounded above ; foot rather pointed behind ; 

 no gland, with a narrow segmented pedal margin. Mantle closely 

 fitted to tlie foot behind, only slightly overlapping on the sides ; 

 the neck-lobes only partially developed near the respiratory orifice, 

 M'ith a fine papillate surface. The respiratory and anal orifices 



