1 6 NOTES. 



is accompanied by a label bearing the locality, Niningo (Burma?), 

 but I have failed to trace this name in any of the maps and gazetteers 

 to which I have access. 



The specimen figured, and the one in Miss Linter's collection, 

 have the measurements given in the diagnosis, but my second specimen 

 measures only i2'5 millimetres in diameter. Figs, joa-c show the 

 shell in three different aspects, natural size; fig-^. iod-fd.xe. enlarged; 



d, shows the parietal and palatal armatures from the posterior side ; 



e, the inside of the outer wall with the palatal folds and denticles ; 

 and/ the parietal wall with its plate and folds. — (Ibid., iv, p. 231.) 



NOTES. 



Literatupe on the Anatomy of the Solenidse. 



I should 1)0 extremely obliged for any information or references to the literature 

 treating of, or touching upon, the anatomy of the SolcnidiC. — H. Howard Bloomer, 

 35, Paradise Street, Ijirminghani. 



On the dimensions of some Arion empirieorum, Fer. 



In May last I collected near Sutton Coldfield two exceedingly large specimens 

 of a black Arion. Feeling doubtful, frf)m the size and prominent peripodial groove, 

 if these were examples of A. empirieorum, Fer., I submitted one to Mr. W. E. 

 Collinge, who has very kindly made a dissection of the same and pronounced it to 

 be a large example of that species. The rugce are large and prominent, the peri- 

 podial groove well marked by elongate rugre, and the foot-Si)le has a sepia-coloured 

 median plane, with rather lighter coloured lateral planes, with alternating brond 

 and narrcjw transverse stripes. The measurements, taken when alive, were : length 

 22'5 cm. ; foot-sole 3 cm. broad. — Guv Brkede.n, 304, St. Vincent Street, Lady- 

 wood, Birmingham. 



New Locality fop Hygpomia pevelata. 



Mr. Howard Fox, of Falmouth, informs me that he has recently taken a living 

 s]-)ecinien of Hyi^romia revclata at .St. Columb Minor, near Newquay, Cornwall. 

 This is, I think, a new locality for the species. — B. B. Woodward. 



Limax vapiegatus, Dpap., vap. pufescens, Moq., in Wapwiekshipe. 



A specimen of this somewhat uncommon variety was brouglit to me some few 

 weeks ago from the cellar of a house in Edgbaston, Birmingham. On being placed 

 in alcohol most of the red colour on the dorsum disapi:)eared leaving only a small 

 patch on the posterior end of the body. — Walter E. Collinge (Read before tlie 

 M. M. S., August 1 2th, iSgS). 



Slugs fpom Nopth Devon. 



I have recently received, through the kindness of Mr. F. J. Farlridge, fifty-six 

 specimens of Alitalia sowerbii, Fer., from different localities in Nth. Devon, which 

 are of interest as affording some idea of the great variation that exists in the external 

 colouring of this species. 



The following well-marked varieties were found : — 



Var. fuseoearinata, Ckll., two specimens from Barnstaple. Var. nigrescens, 

 Ckll. , one specimen from the same locality, also a specimen of the var. bieolor, 

 Ckll. There are numerous intermediate stages between the two last mentioned 

 varieties, and a form similar in colouring to the Irish bucagei-like variety of Arion 

 enipiricoruin, Fer. 



