THE MOLLUSCA OF DORSETSHIRE. 3 
VITRINIDE. 
VITRINA, Draparnaud, 1801. 
Inhabits cold, temperate regions. 
Generally distributed. 
. V. pellucida, zi. 
Lives in moist situations, in loose earth and decayed timber, 
moss, and under stones. 
Ulwell ; Whatcombe Park wall; old trees, Clenston Wood, 
J.C. M.-P. 
LIMACIDA. 
AMALIA, 1855. 
. A. gagates (Draparnaud). Limax gagates, Drap. 
Hedges, roots of grass, under walls. 
Forbes and Hanley, Vol. iv., p. 25. 
Portland, under a stone, at the foot of a thorn hedge, 
R. D. Darbishire. 
Var. plumbea. Spettisbury, C. Ashford. 
Fossil : Portland, Pleistocene bed, near the Bill, Prestwich, 
. A. marginatus, Miller. 
This slug is predatory, Jiving especially on live worms and 
smaller slugs. 
Under old walls, stones, and among dead leaves. 
Generally distributed. 
LIMAX, L., 1758. 
mis havus, L 
Moist woods, cellars, damp _ places. 
Generally distributed. 
. L. agrestis, Z. 
Woods, fields, gardens. 
Moquin Tandon says this slug lays from 25 to 70 eggs at a 
time, and between the months of April and November it 
does not lay less than 200. The eggs are hatched from the 
seventeenth to the twentieth day. The young attain their 
full development within three months, 
Fossil ; Pliocene. 
