174 PULMONATA. 



32. LiMAX CARlNATUS. 



Body rounded in front, strongly keeled and acute behind; 

 uniform deep black ; epidermis blackish ; foot blackish grey. 



Limax carinatus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 56 (not D'Orb.). 

 Hab. South of Europe ; Nice. Spring and autumn. 



33. LiMAX LINEOLATUS. 



Body rugose, blackish, marked vnth grey lines, rounded in 

 front, gradually keeled behind ; upper tentacles bluish ; foot 

 edged with yellowish grey. 



Limax lineolatus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 57. 



Hab. S. Europe ; Nice. Under stones, December. 



2. MILAX. 



Back keeled from the end of the mantle. Mantle short, gra- 

 nular, truncated behind, with two small pores on its hinder edge. 



Shell oval, thick, convex beneath. 



Shield with two small pores on its hinder edge, and with a 

 deep groove roimd the shell ; vermiculated like the Arions : for 

 these reasons Ferussac thought it might make a particular sub- 

 genus. — Ferussac, Tab. Syst. 22. 



What is the genus Aspidoporus, Fitz. Verz. 90, 1833; Herm. 

 lud. i. 395, iii. 13 ? I have not been able to see the work : is it 

 intended for this genus — as the name probably imphes pores on 

 the shield ? 



1. MiLAX Gagates. B.M. 



Blackish, grey brown or greenish ; shield rounded behind, 

 granular or shagreened, suiTOunded by a deep marginal groove ; 

 back keeled the whole length from the back of the shield to the 

 tail. 



Shell elongate, small. — Ferussac, Hist. Moll. "JG. 



Limax gagates, Brap. Tail. 100; Hist. 122. t. 9. f. 1, 2. 



Ferussac, Tab. Syst. 22. 96 E ; Hist. Moll. 75. t. 6. f. 1, 2. 



Philippi, Mol. Sicil. ii. 1 02. 



Norman, Zoologist, 1853, Sept. p. 4048. 



Clark, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. xii. 339. t. 12. f. 16-21. 



Forbes Sf Hanley, Brit. Moll. iv. 24. t. D. D. D. f. 63. 

 L. cinereus, Blainv. D. S. N. xxvi. 430. 



