DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF SLUG 

 OF THE GENUS LIMAX, FROM IRELAND. 



By WALTER E. COLLINGE, F.Z.S., 



Dnnonstrator of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 

 Mason College, Birmingham. 



Some short time ago ' I liriefly described a specimen of Liiiiax 

 which I had received from Mr. James N. Milne, of Cuhnore, 

 Derry, Ireland, which I thought to be sufficiently distinct, 

 anatomically and otherwise, from any other known species, to 

 rank as a species. 



Mr. Milne has been good enough to procure for me another 

 example from the same locality — viz., Rathmullan — and one 

 from Walworth, Co. Derry, both of which confirm my previous 

 diagnoses. I now wish to describe and figure the same, which I 

 am naming Limax hcdieyi, after Mr. Charles Hedley, F.L.S., the 

 distinguished malacologist, of Sydney, N.S.W. 



Limax hedleyi, sp. no\-. 



Ground colour chocolate black, with a light or yellowish- 

 brown stripe on the keel, which is slightly interrupted anteriorly. 

 The tentacles and fore part of the liead are minutely spotted with 

 brown. The ventral edges of the mantle and the parts of the 

 body covered by the same are of a dirty white colour covered by 

 irregular sepia dashes. There are no traces of banding. The 

 region of the pulmonary orifice is distinct, standing out as a 

 faintly-marked circular margin. P'oot-fringe very dark sepia ; 

 foot-sole with lateral sepia-coloured planes and a white median 

 plane. Keel very prominent, posteriorly attenuated. Generative 

 orifice immediately below, and posterior to tlie right inferior 

 tentacle. 



Length 136 millimetres. 



Habitat. — Rathnuillan, Co. Derry, Ireland. (James N. 

 Milne). 



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I Joiirn. of Malacology, 1894. vol. iii.. p. 51, 



