THE 



JOURNAL OF MALACOLOGY. 



No. 6. JUNE 1ST, 1900. Vol. VII. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF 

 ANADENUS FROM CHINA. 



By WALTER E. COLLINGE, 



Mason University College, Birmingham. 



(Plate vi.) 



Some short time ago M. Ph. Dautzenberg very kindly sent me four 

 examples of a species of slug, collected at Qua Toun, Fo Kien, 

 China, which on examination I find belong to the genus Anademis, 

 Heyn. There are two immature specimens and two which appear to 

 be adult. It is interesting to find that this genus is distributed much 

 further eastward than was generally supposed^. Last year I described" 

 a very handsome species from Sechuen, and Dr. Mollendorff^ has 

 more recently described another species from the same province*. 



To M. Dautzenberg I wish to express my best thanks for these 

 interesting molluscs, with which I have much pleasure in associating 

 his name, and to the Council of the Birmingham Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society for defraying the artist's charges. 



1 Cockerell, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1S91, p. 221. 



2 Journ. of Malac, 1899, vol. vii, p. 78. 



3 Ann. Mus. Zool. I'Acad. Imp. d. Sci. St. Petersb., i£99, p. 4. 



4 Dr. Mijllendorff wrote me expressing the opinion that possibly his species {A. sinensis) 

 might be identical with the one I described, viz., A. sechiiencnsis. Since the above was written 

 he has very kindly favoured me wiih an opportunity of e.xamining the type of ^. sinensis, and 

 from an external e.\amination I am of opinion that it is a distinct species. 



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