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Antrim—Cushendun, May 1886! 8. A. Brenan. 
Donegal—Carrablagh, Croaghross, near Letterkenny, May 1889 ! H. C. Hart. 
Louth—Piperstown, in greenhouse, Oct. 1889! Miss Sidney Smith. 
Dublin—Glen Druid, near Carrickmines, Oct. 1886! W. F. de V. Kane. 
Sligo—Collooney, Sept. 1885! W. F. de V. Kane. 
Mayo W.—Enniscoe demesne, near Crossmolina, Sept. 1885 ! W. F. de V. Kane. 
The var. fasciata has been recorded from Switzerland, Piedmont, and Eastern 
and Pyrenean France. 
Var. sylvatica Morelet, Moll. Port., 1845, p. 33. 
Limax sylvaticus Morelet, l.c. 
Limax antiquorum var. czernaévit Kaleniczenko, Bull. Mosc., 1851, xxiv., p. 123. 
Limax maxunus var. vulgaris Moq.-Tand., Hist. Moll. France, 1856, 1i., p. 28. 
Limax maximus var. serpentina Mogq.-Tand., l.c. 
Limax maximusvar. guadrifasciata Dum. & Mort., Cat. Moll. Savoie, 1857, p. 14. 
ANIMAL ash-coloured, with two continuous black bands on each side and a more 
indistinet or broken band beneath ; SHIELD spotted or marbled with black. 
The sub-var. serpentina of Moquin-Tandon only differs from characteristic var. 
sylvatica by the main or median band of each side being more sinuous and irregular. 
Channel Isles—Herm (Reeve, Brit. Moll., 1863, p. 26 and fig.). 
Cornwall W.—Pennion, Falmouth, April 1884! H. Fox. Scilly Isles, Rev. E. 
D. Roberts, Aug. 1890 (G. Sheriff Tye). 
Wilts S.—Vicarage Garden, Steeple Ashton, March 1887! E. P. Knubley. 
Oxon—Henley road, Watlington, and at Pyrton (Norman, Zool., 1853, p. 4127). 
Northampton—Garden, Northampton, May 1883! W. D. Crick. Rockingham 
Park, May 1896! L. E. Adams. 
Stafford—Stafford, June 1886, and Dec. 1897, L. E. Adams. 
Salop— Whittington Castle, Oswestry, June 1885 ! B. Hudson. 
Lincoln N.—Well Vale, April 1886! W.D.R. Broughton, near Brigg, Aug. 1902! 
Miss F. H. Woolward. : 
Lincoln S.—Near Boston, Sept. 1884! W.D.R. 
Leicester—Near Leicester, June 1885! H. E. Quilter. 
Notts.—Tuxford, July 1884! W. A. Gain. Pleasley Vale, April 1884! C. T. Musson. 
Cheshire—Holmes Chapel, Nov. 1896 ! C. Oldham. 
Lancashire S.—Victoria Park, Manchester, March 1884! R. D. Darbishire. 
York N.E.—Kirkleatham, Sept. 1886! W.D.R. Hayburn Wyke, Aug. 1894! 
F. W. Fierke. 
York Mid W.—Torquay terrace, Headingley, July 1884! W. E. Clarke. 
York S.E.—Garden, Pitt street, Barnsley, Oct. 1884! G. Rose. 
Westmorland, etc.—Grange, April 1884! Coniston, Oct. 1886! W.D.R. 
Berwick—F ans, near Earlston, Oct. 1883! R. Renton. 
Stirling—Cambusbarron, near the mill, July 1894! A. McLellan. 
Forfar—Near Montrose, July 1884! W. Duncan. 
Westerness—Glenborrodale, Dec. 1891 ! J. J. Dalgleish. 
Antrim—Cushendun and Whitehall, Broughshane, June 1886! 8S. A. Brenan. 
Queen’s County—La Bergerie (B. J. Clarke, Ann. N.H., 1840, p. 203). 
Galway—(B. J. Clarke, Ann. N.H., 1840, p. 203). 
Waterford—Near Waterford, Sept. 1883 ! J. H. Salter. 
This varietyis the most prevalent form in this country and abroad. 
Var. tetrazona ‘Taylor. 
ANIMAL ash-coloured, with only two bands on each side ; SHIELD maculate or 
marbled. 
The var. fasciata of Lessona, though also showing only two bands on each side, 
is different, being a three-banded form, the lowermost being compound and formed 
by the union of the main and outer bands. 
York S.E.—Beverley, Sept. 1884! J. Darker Butterell. 
Cheshire—Nursery gardens, Sale, Feb. 1895! C. Oldham. 
Var. krynickii Kaleniczenko, Bull. Moscow, 1851, p. 122. 
Limax antiquorum krynickii Kaleniczenko, l.c. 
Limax maximus var. gohnstont Moq.-Tand., Hist. Nat. France, 1855, p. 29. 
Limax maxinus var. bifasciatus Dum. & Mort., Cat. Moll. Savoie, 1857, p. 14. 
Limax maximus var. pallido-dorsalis Adams, Manual, 1896, p. 34. 
ANIMAL ash-coloured, mid-dorsal area paler, with a few black spots, inner band 
distinet and black, main and outer bands obsolete ; SHIELD maculate. 
The sub-var. bifaseiata D. & M. has also only one well-marked band on each 
side, the other being effaced. 
