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sequently give rise to an almost infinite number of sub-varieties, which will 
necessarily partake of or unite the characters of two or more of the more 
important varieties, and such varietal names as are applicable may be used 
in combination to indicate them. 
VARIATIONS IN COLOUR OF ANIMAL. 
Var. concolor Pini, Moll. Esino, 1876, p. 82. 
Limax unicolor var. concolor Pini, |.c. 
Limax untcolor var. bivone Less. & Poll., Mon. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 26. 
Limax maxinius var. lintbata Moquin-Tandon, Moll. France, 1855. 
ANIMAL almost uniformly ash-coloured ; foot-fringe, keel, and neck paler. 
The brownish-chestnut coloured Lemaz unicolor var. bivonee of Less. & Pollonera 
from Palermo in Sicily may be relegated to this form. The sub-variety limbata 
Moquin-Tandon is also this variety in which the foot-fringe is whiter than is usual. 
The var. cinerea of Moquin-Tandon does not belong to this species. 
Cornwall W.—Phillack, near Hayle, Oct. 1884! Miss S. Hockin. 
Hants S.—Christchureh, June 1884! C. Ashford. 
Sussex W.—Worthing, Aug. 1884! T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Kent W.—Chislehurst, Sept. 1884! 'T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Surrey—Charles Hill, Farnham, July 1883 ! 8. Spencer Pearce. 
Middlesex—Acton, Aug. 1884! Willesden, Jan. 1885! Bedford Park, Chiswick, 
Feb. 1885! T. D. A. Cockerell. Churehyard Bottom Wood, Highgate, June 1889 ! 
H. W. Kew. 
Northampton—Northampton, Sept. 1884 ! W. D. Crick. 
Stafford—Gardens, Cheadle, April 1896! F. B. Webb. 
Leicester—Hathern, Sept. 1884! C. T. Musson. Canal Side, Belgrave, July 
1885! H. E. Quilter. 
Lincoln N.—Louth, Sept. 1886! H. W. Kew. 
Cheshire—Bowdon ! (Milne & Oldham, J. of Coneh., Jan. 1894). 
Lancashire S.—Farington, locally common, May 1889! W. H. Heathcote. 
York S.W.—Haw Park, Sept. 1885, J. Wilcock. 
York Mid W.—Charleston, near Bingley (Soppitt & Carter, Nat., p. 97, 1888). 
Near Shipley Glen, Oct. 1887! J. A. Hargreaves. Boston Spa, May 1885! W.D.R. 
Westmorland and Lake Lancashire—Coniston, Oct. 1886! W.D.R. 
Renfrew—Shielhill Glen, Aug. 1886! W.D.R. Harelaw Burn, Gleniffer, Aug. 
1890! J. M. B. Taylor. 
Haddington—Falside, Aug. 1886 ! W.D.R. 
Stirling—Cambusbarron, near the mill, July 1894! A. McLellan. 
Aberdeen N.—Haddo House, Dee. 1890! Geo. Muirhead. 
Main Argyle—Dunoon, common, Aug. 1886! W.D.R. 
Sutherland E.—Golspie Burn, June 1886! W. Baillie. 
Dublin—Dublin, March 1886! J. R. Redding. 
Wexford—Kilmanock, Sept. 1888! G. Barrett-Hamilton. 
Westmeath—Killynon, Sept. 1886! W. F. de Vismes Kane. 
Galway E.—Killeran (B. J. Clarke, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1843). 
Clare—Ballyvaughan, July 1895 (Standen, Irish Nat., Sept. 1895). 
The var. concolor has also been observed in France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, 
Italy, Sicily, Anstro-Hungary, Balkan Peninsula, ete. 
Var. candida Less. & Poll., Monog. Limae. Ital., 1882, p. 26. 
ANIMAL pure white and slightly transparent, showing some of the viscera through 
the skin ; EYES pale brown. 
Limax unicolor var. candidus Lessona & Pollonera, I.c. 
Limax maximus var. alba Adams, J. of Conch., July 1896, p. 228. 
This or a closely-allied variety was named albus by Amstein and megaspidus by 
Blainville. 
Northampton—Rockingham Park, May 1896! (L. E. Adams, Journ. Northants. 
Soc., June 1896, p. 60). 
Italy—Novoli, near Florence, M. Paulucci (Lessona & Pollonera, ].c.). 
France—Savigny-sur-Orge, Seine et Oise (P Fischer, J. de C., Oct. 1880, p. 299). 
Var. vinosa Bandon, J. de Conch., July 1884, p. 204. 
ANIMAL purplish or vinous-brown. 
The sub-var. lilaeina of Roebuck, in which the ground colour is lilae or purplish, 
may be regarded as a form of this variety with the dark markings of var. krynickit. 
Gloucester E.—Sub-var. /i/acina, Stroud, Oct. 1883! E. J. Elliott. 
York S.E.—Beverley, Oct. 1884! J. Darker Butterell. 
France—Angy in the Oise and Arlane in the Puy-de-Déme, Breviere (Baudon, l.c.). 
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