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captivity several times, but they would never touch a fern. The 

 favourite liidiug-place of Athoracophorichie in New Zcahind is beneath 

 and within rotten logs and in the leaf -sheaths of Pliormiiim, at the 

 base of which plant there is always a large amount of moist, dei^aying 

 vegetable matter. Examining the contents of the crop of A.paj)illafus 

 found under a rotten log, I found it to consist of a pulp of the rotten 

 Avood. I never saw these molluscs feeding, since they are nocturnal, 

 but I do not doubt that the majority of these slugs live on decaying 

 vegetable matter, with which fuugi, etc., are always largely mixed. 



Jlab. — North Island: Forty Mile Eush, small specimens only. 

 South Island : Dunedin, Ashburton, Riccarton Eush, Pelorus Valley. 

 Chatham Islands. Auckland Islands (Krone). 



Var. 7ii(jncans, Martens, 1889. 



Simroth, Nova Acta, etc., Ed. liv, p. 77. 



This variety seems to be very rare. The original locality is Auck- 

 land Islands, but I have specimens from Dunedin and Pelorus Valley, 

 South Island. 



Var. fasciata, Von Martens, 1889, em. {fuscata). 

 Simroth, t.c., p. 79. 



This is a more common foim, which, however, I have not seen from 

 the North Island. The arrangement of the dark-brown or black spots 

 on the back is very variable, but usually they form three bands. It is 

 sometimes as large as the typical form, but generally smaller. 



Hah. — Auckland Islands ; South Island ; Dunedin; Hooker Valley ; 

 Pelorus Valley. 



5. Athoeacophoeus Simeothi, Suter. 



At]ioraco2)horufi Siinrothi, Suter: Proc. Malac. Soe. London, Vol. ii 

 (1896), p. 34, pi. iv, figs. 3, 4. 



I have been unable to procure anymore specimens of tliis interesting 

 slug, and hence cannot add anything by way of supplement to my 

 first communication. 



6. Athoeacophoeus Dendti, n.sp. 



Eody (Figs. XII, XIII) broadly elongate, anterior part very broad, 

 narrowing gradually towards the tail. Eack flatly rounded, with 

 median and lateral grooves deep and conspicuous, median groove ex- 

 tending to the head, lateral grooves with one or two additional grooves 

 near the n\argin. Colour dark-grey, darker along the middle. The 

 whole of the back minutely graniilate, between the oblicj^ue grooves one 

 or two large raised round tubercles of mixch lighter colour, fonning 

 a single row on each side from the mantle-area to the head, double 

 from the mantle-area to a short distance from the tail. Mantle-area 

 triangular, sometimes (piadrangular, granulose ; the pulmonary orifice 



