ARION ATER. 179 
ar. plumbea Roebuck, Journ. of Conch., Jan. 1884, p. 146. 
Arion ater var. cinerea Roebuck, Nat., Sept. 1888, p. 284. 
Arion ater var. cinerascens Cockerell, Science Gossip, Feb. 1893, p. 23 
ANIMAL uniform lead colour, sides paler, fringe dull yellow. 
The sub-vars. cinerea and einerascens are strictly identical, and are described 
as uniformly dark cinereous in colour, a dull brewn foot- fringe with deep cinereous 
lineolation. The form may be regarded as including the pale plumbeous specimens 
discriminated by Mr, Roebuck under the name of plumbco- pallescens. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Cornwall W.—A sub-var. banded with a darker shade, Trevedoek road, St. 
Columb, May 1885! W. Vinson. 
Cornwall E.—St. Austell, Sept. 1904! C. P. Richards. 
Devon N.—Belstone, near a geal Sept. 1904! Rev. W. Wright Mason. 
Ilfracombe, Aug. 1903 (Beeston & Wright, J. of Conch., July 1904), 
Somerset S. . —Bridew ater, Sept. 1$84! W. Vinson. 
Surrey—Dorking, Sept. 1886!C. Oldham. Sub-var. cinerea, with orange fringe, 
Bletchingley near Reigate, Aug. 1903! L. E. Adams. 
Middlesex— Muswell Hill road, Highgate, July 1888! and Churchyard B auey 
Highgate, April 1889! H. W. Kew. Sub-var. cinerascens, Bedford Park (T. D. A. 
Cockerell, Science Gossip, 1885, p. 224). 
Oxford—Churehyard, Combe, abundant, July 1904! Rev. S. 5. Pearce. 
Bedford—General Cemetery, Luton, April 1889! J. Saunders. 
Glamorgan—Cardiff, Nov. 1889! F. W. Wotton. Sub-var. plimnbeo-pallescens, 
near Llanelly, Sept. 1904! J. Nevill. 
Pembroke—Tenby, Aug. 1884! J. Madison. 
Montgomery —Sub-var. cinerea, with yellow fringe, Welshpool, Aug. 1889 !> 
J. Biekerton Morgan. 
Carnarvon—Sub-var. cinerea, Llanrwst, July 1883! W. Denison Roebuck. 
Leicester—Bradeate Park, Leicester, June 1887! H. E. Quilter. 
Notts. —Pleasley id April 1884! C. T. Musson. Sub-var. cinerea, Tuxford 
A. Gain, Brit. Nat., 1893). 
Derby— Markland Grip, April 1884! C. T. Musson. Near Ashbourne, Aug. 1889! 
Lionel E. Adams. 
York N.E.—Eegton Bridge, Aug. 1885! Baker Hudson. Farwath Bridge, Aug, 
1886! and Skelton "Beck V alley, Saltburn, May 1887! W. Denison Roebnek. 
York S.W.—Shipley Glen (Soppitt and Carter, Naturalist, 1888, p. 97). 
York Mid W.—Road-side near Pool, Ane. 1883! W. Denison Roebuck. Wrane- 
thorn Churchvard, Leeds, Sept. 1890! A. N. Skipwith. 
York N.W.—Anegram, Swaledale Head, July 1884! W. Denison Roebuck. 
Durham—Durham, July 1884 ! Baker Hudson. 
Northumberland—Stockstield-on-Tyne, May 1885! H. E. Craven. 
Cumberlend—Brigham, Cockermouth, Sept. 1904! Mrs. Robinson, 
SCOTLAND 
Aberdeen N.—Haddo House, Nov. 1890! G. Muirhead. 
Sutherland E.—The Mound Rock above Loch Brora, Sept. 1884! W. Baillie. 
IRELAND. 
Derry—Creagh Meadows, Toome, June 1893, R: Praeger and R. Welch. 
Antrim—A sub-var. laterally banded with darker, a hitehall, Bronghshane, June 
1886! Rev. S. A. Brenan. Murlough, May 1897, L. E. Adams. Cave Hill, 1893, 
and Glenavy River, May 1900, R. Welch. Garden, Manse, Antrim, Sept. 1904! 
W.S. Smith. Ballyeastle, Oct. 1904 ! Miss O’Connor. 
Down—Garden, Oakleigh, Ormeau Park, Belfast, Oct. 1904 ! A. W. Stelfox. 
Beech Hill near Newry, July 1904! RK. J. Anderson. 
Monaghan—Drumreaske, Sept. 1904! W. F. de Vismes Kane. 
Donegal—Mulroy Bay near Milford, R. Welch. 
Meath—Sub-var. cinerea, Duleek, Nov. 1904! P. H. Grierson. 
Wicklow—A dark-grey form at Altidore, July 1891, R. F. Scharff. 
Wexford—Kilmanock, Sept. 1890, G. A. Barrett-Hamilton. 
Sligo—Rare about Sligo, July 1904, A. Stelfox and R. Made 
Mayo W.—Enniscoe demesne, Crossmolina, ees 1885! ue “de Vismes Kane. 
Tipperary N.—Shores of Lough Derg, ete., Sept. 1904! G. J tf overty. 
Cork S.—Sub-var. cinerea, with orange ene commonabout ¢ ‘ork, B larney, 
and Bantry, Sept. 1898, Lionel E. Adams. 
Kerry—Kenmare, July 1898 (R. Standen, Trish Nat., Sept. 1893). Valentia 
Island, Sept. 1904! Miss Delap. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—A grey variety is recorded from the Valley of Tremorgan in Finistere 
by Bourguignat. 
