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The sub-var. fusea of Bettoni is identical with sub-var. tri/ineolata except that 
the anterior end of the keel-line and also the whole length of the red lateral bands 
are interrupted by the brownish tint, and form three series of red spots. 
The sub-var. rubro-notata Less. & Poll. has a blackish body, the red keel-line 
continued up to the shield, and the red lateral band on each side resolved into spots. 
Not hitherto recorded for the British Isles. 
Italy—The var. dacampi s.st., according to Lessona, exists in Venetia, Lom- 
hardy, East Piedmont, and Emilia, but does not pass the Appenines, and is therefore 
absent from Tuscany. It does not range to so great an altitude as typical cinereo- 
niger, the most lofty locality being Prestine, Valle dell’ Oglio, 800 metres above the 
sea (about 2,710 feet) in Lombardy ; it has also been found at Varesotto and Valsas- 
sina. In Venetia it has been recorded from Verona, Peschiera, and Gorgo; and in 
Piedmont from Cigognola, Stradella, and Guasta. The sub-var. tri/ineolata is found 
at Bellagio, and near Portone, Lombardy, and in Piedmont, Liguria, and Tuscany ; 
the sub-var. rubro-notata at Bellagio in Lombardy, on the Hills of Turin, and at 
Busalla in Piedmont, in Liguria, and in Tuscany. ‘The sub-var. fusca Bettoni is 
found at Regoledo in Lombardy ; while the sub-var. fusca Less. & Poll. is from 
Liguria, and the Hills of Turin, and Busalla in Piedmont (Less. & Poll., op. cit.). 
Var. corsica Mogq.-Tand., Hist. Moll. France, 1855, 11., p. 26, pl. 3, ff. 10-13. 
Limax corsicus Moquin-Tandon, op. cit. 
Limax doriw Bourg., Spicil. Mal., 1862, p. 23, pl. 15. 
Limax cinereo-niger var. taccanti Pini, Moll. Esino, 1876, p. 91, pl. a, ff. 6-7. 
Limax cinereo-niger var. turatii Pini, op cit., p. 95. pl. B, ff. 7, 8. 
Limax dacampi /& pinii Less. & Poll., Monog. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 34. 
Limax corsicus dorie € lineatus Less. & Poll., op. cit., p. 39. 
Limax corsicus doriw § simplex Less. & Poll., op. cit. 
Limax corsicus doriw , pallescens Less. & Poll., op. cit. 
Limax corsicus doriw ¢ brunneus Less. & Poll., op. cit. 
KEEL and median line red; sides of body and SHIELD more or less unicolorous. 
The formula is (321) (123). 
The var. corsiea sensu stricto, being first described and therefore giving the name 
to this variety, is an aberrant example of the red-keeled form ; the keel, though red- 
dish, is not strongly coloured, and the sides of the body are ochreous-yellow tinged 
or overspread with grey ; this bleaching of the body colours is also shown by 
The sub-var. turatii of Pini, in which although the keel is bright red, the sides 
of the body are pale ashy-rufous, and the side areas of the sole are not darkened. 
The sub-var. dorize Bourg., which more characteristically represents this variety, 
has an almost uniformly black body and blood-red keel, a line of which colour extends 
quite to the shield ; the var. pinii Less. & Poll. is practically identical. 
The sub-var. lineata Less. & Poll. differs in the sides of the body being blackish. 
The sub-var. simplex Less. & Poll. is the same, but the red keel only extends 
half-way to the shield ; figured by Bourguignat, Spic. Mal., 1862, pl. 16, ff. 4, 5, 8. 
The sub-var. brunnea Less. & Poll. has the red keel and mid-line, but the body 
and shield are chestnut-brown ; also fignred by Bourguignat, l.e., f. 9. 
The sub-var. palleseens Less. & Poll. has the body and shield pale rufous- 
brown, with red keel and mid-line, and is also figured by Bourguignat, l.c., f. 7. 
The sub-var. taeceanii Pini only differs from characteristic sub-var. dori in the 
sides of the body and shield being of an earthy-brown colour and the suffusion of the 
mid-area of the sole with a yellowish-rosy tint. 
Not hitherto recorded for the British Isles. 
France—The sub-var. dori has been found in the environs of Nice and Menton, 
Alpes Maritimes (Bourg., Annales Mal., 1870, p. 135). 
Italy—The sub-var. dori has been recorded from beneath bushes on the east side 
of the Vorbergs, near Bellagio, in Lombardy (Poulsen, Nachbl., 1872, p. 23), Savona, 
Finale, about Genoa especially near Pegli, in Liguria, also at Montferrat, the hills 
about Turin, and the Val Serivia, at Busalla, in Piedmont; and as var. pinii from 
Valsassina, near Pasturo, in Lombardy. The sub-vars. simplex and lineata have 
been found at Busalla and on the Hills of Turin in Piedmont, in Liguria, and in 
Tuseany ; sub-vars. pallescens and sanguinea at Busalla and on the Hills of Turin 
in Piedmont, and in Liguria; sub-var. brwnnea in Liguria; and sub-vars. taccanti 
and turatii at Esino, Lombardy (Lessona & Pollonera, op. cit.). 
Sourguignat records as Limax dacampi var., a sub-variety with black sides, and 
greyish mid-line with red tubereulation, from Orbeletto, in the province of Rome. 
Corsica—The var. corsica sensu stricto, Bastelica, Sept. 1852 (Moquin-Tandon, 
l.e.), Orezza, Signor Bedriaga (Lessona & Pollonera, l.c.)., Corte, Toga, and Bastia, 
Signor Caziot (Pollonera, Bull. Mus. Comp. Anat., 1898, p. 2). 
Sardinia—The var. corsica, north of the island, Signor Gene (Less. & Poll., Lc.). 
