AGRIOLIMAX AGRESTIS. LS 
This variety, which is the typical unicolorous form of the species, with the con- 
stituent subsidiary and scarcely separable forms cited above, is abundant and 
generally distributed throughout the British Islands, and probably occurs through- 
out the entire range of distribution of the species. 
Var. flavilatera Dum. & Mort., Moll. Savoie, 1857, p. 10. 
Limax agrestis var. succineus Westerlund, Faun. Europ., 1876, p. 11. 
Agriolimax agrestis Y aurata Less. & Poll., Monog. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 49. 
Limax agrestis var. xanthosoma Fischer, J. de Conchyl., 1880, p. 294. 
ANIMAL with body and shield yellowish. 
The var. flavilatera s.str. is described as having the sides of body yellowish. 
The sub-var. sueeinea is described as subrufous above and white beneath. 
The sub-var. aurata has an uniformly yellow shield and body and black 
ommatophores. 
The sub-var. xanthosoma is uniformly amber-yellow, tentacles bluish-brown. 
Lancashire S.—Tyldesley, Aug. 1886, Lionel E. Adams. 
France—Sub-var. zanthosoma, valley of Mont Dore, Puy-de-Dome (Fischer, op. c.). 
Italy—Sub-var. aurata, Groscovallo, Piedmont (Less. & Poll., op. cit.). 
Norway—Sub-var. succinea, Christiania (Esmark, Suppl. Norway List, 1880). 
United States—Sub-var. succinea, Portland, Oregon, H. F. Wickham (T. D. A. 
Cockerell, Nautilus, 1891). 
Var. eineracea Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, i1., p. 23. 
Limax agrestis 8B cineracea Moquin-Tandon, op. cit. 
Limax agrestis var. cinerascens Dum. & Mort., Moll. Sav., 1857, p. 10. 
Limax agrestis var. grisea T. D. A. Cockerell, Nautilus, Oct. 1891, p. 70. 
ANIMAL more or less entirely ash coloured or grey. 
The var. eineracea s.str. is described as greyish-white with ash-coloured shield. 
The sub-var. einerascens is described as grey. 
The sub-var. gpisea is of a somewhat dark grey. 
Lancashire S.—Sub-var. grisea, Knowsley near Liverpool, 1893 (W. E. Collinge, 
J. of Mal., June 1893). Near Prescot, Sept. 1885, T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Dublin—Sub-var. grisea, Rathfarnham (Scharff, Slugs of Ireland, 1891). 
France—Sub-var. cinerascens is recorded for Savoy; the var. cineracea is also 
found commonly almost throughout the department of the Ain; 1t is commoner than 
the type about Lyons in the department of the Rhone, and is also found in Haute 
Loire and the department of the Seine. 
Portugal—Common in Estremadura, in Alemtejo and in Algarve (Morelet, Moll. 
Port., 1845, p. 35). 
Greece—Sitia and Canea in the Isle of Crete (Simroth, op. cit.). 
Norway—About Tromso, Groto, and Grono (Esmark & Hoyer, Mal. BI., 1856). 
Asia Minor—Magnesia, Brussa, and shores of the Dardanelles (Simroth, op. cit.). 
Var. violacea Gassies, Moll. de  Agenais, 1849, p. 64. 
Limax agrestis § lilacina Moq.-Tand., Hist. Moll. France, 1855, ii., p. 22, pl. 2, f. 22. 
Limax agrestis var. plumbea Standen, Irish Nat., Sept. 1898. 
ANIMAL purplish, lilac or slate coloured. 
This is probably the Limaz sylvaticus of Draparnand, but some of the details of 
his description are not in perfect accord with the characteristics of the species. 
Somerset S.—Bridgwater, Aug. 1884! W. Vinson. 
Sussex W.—Midhurst, 1884, T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Middlesex— Bedford Park, Chiswick, Dec. 1884! T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Stafford—Stafford! L. E. Adams. Gardens, Cheadle, April 1886! F. B. Webb. 
Salop—St. Oswald’s Well and Whittington Castle, June 1885 ! Baker Hudson. 
Gloucester E.—Stroud, Oct. 1883! E. J. Elliott. 
Gloucester W.—Strond, Oct. 1883! E. J. Elliott. 
Monmouth—Shirenewton Hall, June 1886! E. J. Lowe. 
Glamorgan—Llandaff, on Dactylis glomerata, July 1885! F. W. Wotton. 
York N.E.—Egton Bridge, Aug. 1885! Baker Hudson. Coxwold and Byland, 
Sept. 1892 (Nat., 1892, p. 347). 
York Mid W.—Cracoe, June 1891! W.D.R. 
Ireland—Rey. B. J. Clarke records the not unfrequent occurrence of this variety 
in Ireland, but does not cite precise localities. 
Down—Graveyard, Downpatrick Cathedral, R. Welch. 
