276 APPENDIX—AGRIOLIMAX AGRESTIS. 
Queen’s Co.—Sub-var. carpatica, Stradbally, Sept. 1904! A. G. Stuart. 
King’s Co.—The gardens, Charleville Forest, Tullamore, Sep. 1904! R. McKenna. 
Roscommon—Loughglynn, Castlerea, Oct. 1904! Hugh Kennedy. 
Galway E.—Clonbrock, Sept. 1904! Hon. R. E. Dillon. 
Clare—Seariff, Sept. 1904 ! N. F. Hibbert. Dromoland Castle gardens near 
Newmarket-on-Fereus, Sept. 1904 ! John Carter. 
Tipperary N.—Road by Lough Derg nr. Derry Castle, Sep. 1904! G. J. Fogerty. 
Cork S.—Skibbereen, Sept. 1904! Jolin J. Wolfe. 
Kerry—Valentia Island, Sept. 1904 ! Miss M. J. Delap. With Geomalacus 
maculosus, on tree trunks, north of Lough Caragh, June 1904 ! W. West. 
Var. heynemanni Bielz. 
IRELAND. 
Derry—Sub-var. tigrina, Straidarran, July 1904! P. H. Grierson. 
Tyrone—Sub-var. maculata, Baronscourt gardens, Sept. 1904! R. Bell. 
Kilkenny—Sub-var. maculata, Piltown n, Sept. 1904 ! Earl of Bessborough. 
Queen’s Co.—Sub-var. maculata, Stradbally, Sept. 1904! A. G. Stuart. 
Clare—Sub-var. maculata, Lahinch, 1900, P. H. Grierson ; and in gardens of 
Dromoland Castle, Sept. 1904! J. Carter. 
Tipperary S.—Sub-var. maculata, St. Thomas’s Bridge and Glenabbey ; also 
sub-var. submaculata, Oaklands near Clonmel, Rev. A. H. Delap. 
Waterford—Sub-var. maculata, Morgan’s Glen, Waterford, Rev. A. H. Delap. 
Var. rupicola Less. & Poll. 
The few additional localities adduced for this form confirm it as a northern and 
western race, with a preference for places of some altitude. 
SCOTLAND. 
Aberdeen S.—Sub-v. alpestris, garden, Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Oct. 1904! G. Sim. 
Hebrides—Var. nigra, at back of Connacher, and at mouth of Avon Mhor, on 
the Island of Hirta, of the St. Kilda group, July 1905 ! J. Waterston. 
Shetlands —Sub-var. alpestris, Mossbank, Sept. 1904 ! T. Bowie. 
IRELAND. 
Monaghan—Snb-var. a/pestris, Drumreaske, Sep. 1904! W. F. de Vismes Kane. 
Louth—Sub-var. alpestris, east of Drogheda, Oct. 1904 ! P. H. Grierson. 
Waterford—Sub-var. rupicola occurs only on the very summit of the reeks ; the 
type is found a few hundred feet lower down the mountain, Rev. A. H. Delap. 
Agriolimax agrestis (L.). 
Food and Habits.—''he omnivorous appetite of this species is con- 
firmed by the observation of Recluz, who has recorded it on the poisonous 
Boletus luridus about Paris, while Mr. E. W. Swanton observed in 1904 
that this species in company with Milax sowerbii and Arion hortensis quite 
ruined the potato crop at Stour Provost, in Dorset, by burrowing within 
and devouring the tubers. 
In New Zealand, Australia, and Cape Colony, according to the experience 
of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, Agriolimar agrestis does not appear to have 
the characteristic milky- slime or very little of it, as the mucus seems clear 
and transparent until after considerable irritation. 
Geological History.—'l'he record by Mansel-Pleydell of this species 
as a Phocene fossil in Dorset is incorrect, the deposit at Blashenwell being 
according to Mr. Kennard, only of Holocene age. 
PLeIsTocENE.—Von Ihering records A. agrestis from the Pleistocene 
tufa in French Switzerland. 
In Germany Herr Clessin records it fossilized from the alluvial deposits 
at Piirklgut, the Loess at Kumpsfmiihl, and the Pleistocene tufaceous 
deposits about Regensburg. 
Horocene.—From quarry-tip, Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire ; and also 
from a section in Tooley street, Middlesex. 
