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Var. bicolor Moquin-T'andon, Hist. Moll., 1855, p. 11. 
Arion rufus var. bicolor Moquin-Tandon, l.c. 
Arion empiricorum var. t Férussac, Hist. Moll., 1819, p. 62, pl. 1, ff. 6-7. 
Arion subfuscus var. lateritius Collinge, Conchologist, 1892, p. 63. 
ANIMAL of a red or reddish colour, with darker dorsum, without darker lateral 
banding. 
The var. bicolor s.str., animal orange-red, with brown dorsum, foot-fringe 
orange with black lineolation. 
The sub-var. lateritia is of a deep brick-red, which is not due to mucus, lateral 
bands absent, foot-fringe light grey, lineolated with pale brown or chocolate. 
WALES 
Glamorgan—A sub-var. of a rich wine colour on banks of river Ely, St. eee Ss 
near Cardiff, March 1885 ! F. W. Wotton. 
SCOTLAND. 
Fife and Kinross—Sub-v. /ateritia, Mount Melville, St. Andrews (Collinge, I.c.). 
IRELAND. 
\ sub-variety found by Dr. Scharff in a small pine-wood, in Lord 
Howth’s demesne, Howth, in Sept. 1900, had a pale reddish-brown shield, and red- 
dish body rugze, a colouring not, as is usual, entirely due to slime, but to the 
presence of superficial pigment cells. 
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France—Environs of Paris (Férussac, op. cit., p. 63). 
Var. fuliginea Morelet, Moll. Port., 1845, p. 30, pl. 2, f. 1. 
Arion fuligineus Morelet, op. cit. 
Arion (Limax) cinctus var /uscescens Dum. & Mort., Moll. Savoie, 1857, p. 7. 
Arion brunneus Lehmann, Mal. Blatt., 1861, p. 166. 
Arion limacopus Westerlund, Exp. Crit. Moll., 1871, p. 36. 
Arion flagellus and var. phillipsi Collinge, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1893, p. 252, pl. 9. 
ANIMAL of a dark brown, sides paler, with or without darker lateral banding, 
fringe yellowish. 
The. var. fuliginea s.str., is of a rich brown, dorsum and shield very dark 
smoky-brown, foot-fringe yellow, reddish at the extremities. 
The sub-var. brunnea is coffee-brown, the dorsum darker brown or blackish, 
the sides of body and shield paler red-brown, lateral banding indistinct, fringe 
yellowish with black lineolation ; mucus colourless. 
The sub-var. limaeopa is dark fuscous above, paler on the sides ; mucus yellow. 
The sub-var. flagella is dark vandyke-brown along the back, light brown on 
the sides, upon which are the vandyke-brown lateral Dands; the foot- fringe and 
vicinity are pale brownish-white, the fringe with sepia lineoles ; sole pale yellow. 
The sub-var. phillipsi differs in the back and mantle being deep mahogany- 
brown, the sides of body white with black dashes. 
ENGLAND. 
Somerset S.—Sub-var. brunnea, Bridgwater, Aug. 1884! W. Vinson. 
Hants. N.—Sub-v. brunnea, Preston Candover, Nov. 1885 ! Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. 
Surrey—Sub-var. brunnea, Haslemere, E. W. Swanton (C. Pannell, Journ. of 
Conch., Jan. 1902). 
Middlesex—Sub-var. brunnea, Churchyard Bottom Wood, Highgate, May 1889 ! 
H. Wallis Kew. 
Warwick—A modified form of the sub-var. faged/a, Sutton Coldfield, H. Overton 
(W. E. Collinge, Journ. of Mal., Dee. 1904, p. 98). 
Salop—Sub-var. brunnea, Oswestry, June 1885 ! Baker Hudson. 
Pembroke—Sub-var. brunnea, near Pembroke, June 1885! Mrs. Trayler. 
Notts.—Sub-var. brunnea, garden, Tuxford, April 1885! W. A. Gain. 
Derby—Sub-var. brunnea, Clifton, 1889 ! Lionel E. Adams. 
Northumberland S.—Sub-var. brunnea, Stockstield-on-Tyne, May 1885! H. E. 
Craven. 
Cumberland—Sub-var. brunnea, Skiddaw Forest, Sept. 1890! Rev. J. Hawell. 
SCOTLAND. 
Perth Mid—Sub-var. brunnea, Dunkeld road on banks of river Tay, Sept. 1904 ! 
W. Evans. 
Aberdeen S.—Sub-var. brunnea, garden, Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Oct. 1904 !G. Sim. 
IRELAND. 
Armagh-—Sub-var. drwnnea, Armagh, June 1885 ! Rev. H. W. Lett. 
Monaghan—Snb-var. brunnea, Drumreaske, Sept. 1904! W. F. de Vismes Kane. 
Louth—Sub-var. brunnea, near Blackhall demesne, Sept. 1904! P. H. Grierson. 
