288 APPENDIX—ARION HORTENSIS. 
GERMANY. 
Reported by Dr. von Martens for Dolmar, Reinhardsbrunn, ete., in Thuringia. 
FRANCE. 
Reeorded for the Lot-et-Garonne by Gassies, the Vaucluse by Commandant 
Caziot, and Puy-de-Déme by Dr. P. Fischer. 
Var. suceinea Bouillet. 
Cumberland —The sub-var. aurantiaca is the most prevalent form about Bassen- 
thwaite (W. J. Farrer, Journ. of Conch., Jan. 1896, p. 153). 
Galway E.—Sub-var. awrantiaca, Clare-Galway Abbey, July 1895 (Collier and 
Standen, Journ. of Conch., April 1896, p. 178). 
Arion hortensis Férussac. 
Food and Habits.—During Nept. 1906, at Moycullen and beside 
Ross Lake, W. Galway, Mr. R. Standen observed this usually strictly 
geophilous species ascending the trees to a considerable height, and in 
Aug. 1898 noted examples feeding upon Phallus impudicus and other 
fungi in Eggerslack Wood, Grange, Lancashire; while Mr. H. Beeston 
remarks that in autumn it has a strong preference for hidmg beneath and 
clinging to the fallen and decaying leaves of the sycamore. 
Geological History.—Calcareous particles, assumed to be the ves- 
tigial shells of this species, have been found in a Holocene deposit at 
Cleeve Hill, East Gloucestershire. 
ENGLAND AND JIWALES. 
Dorset—Stour Provost, Sept. 1904 (E. W. Swanton, J. of C., Jan. 1905, p. 286). 
Hants. S.— Common everywhere about Hambledon, C. 8. Coles. 
Kent E.—Maidstone (Elgar and Lamb, Journ. of Conch., Jan. 1893, p. 154). 
Essex S.—Wanstead and Barkingside, not common (W. Crouch, Essex Nat., 
Feb 1891, p. 208). 
SCOTLAND. 
Main Argyle—Pine woods, Ardbhan Craigs, also plentiful on Lismore, Sept. 
1892 (Standen and Hardy, Journ. of Conch., Oct. 1893, p. 268). 
Ross W.—Balmacarra House, Aug. 1906! Rev. R. Godfrey. 
IRELAND. 
Donegal— Not uncommon in wood, Portsalon, and in burial-ground at Fahan, 
May 1893 (R. Standen, Journ. of Conch., July 1893, p. 197). 
Cavan—Kingscourt, June 1904, P. H. Grierson. 
Meath—Nobber, March 1904, P. H. Grierson. 
Queen’s Co.—Durron, May 1903, P. H. Grierson. 
Galway W.—Moycullen and banks of Ross Lake, Sept. 1906, R. Standen. 
Galway E.—Very abundant at Ballindooly, Sept. 1906, R. Standen. 
GERMANY, 
Recorded by Dr. von Martens for Saalfeld, Liebenstein, ete., in Thuringia. 
FRANCE. 
Recorded for the Var and Lot-et-Garonne. 
SWITZERLAND. 
Recorded from the environs of Lucerne, and from Perroy in Canton Vaud. 
