LIMAX. 211 



Limax perlucidus of Quoy and Gaimarcl, is placed in this 

 group b}*- Heynemann. It belongs to the genus Hyalimax 

 (Succineidse). 



Section KRYNICKIA, Kaleniczenko, 1839. 

 (Group Malino, Gray). 



L. L^EVIS, Miiller. PL 52, fig. 21. 



Scarcely carinated, soft, brownish, black-dotted ; shield equal- 

 ing the dorsum in length, lightly concentricall}' striated, gibbous, 

 posteriorly rounded ; pulmonary orifice ver}- posterior ; head 

 blackish ; sole brownish ; mucus watery. Length, 20 mill. 



Middle and Northern Europe, Northern Italy. 



The synonyms are L. brunneus, Drap.; L. arenarius, Gassies ; 

 L. parvulus, Normand. 



Yar. MUCRONATUS, Westerlund. Yellowish brown, pallid on the 

 sides, sole white ; shield with a posterior conical process. 

 Length, 10 mill. Sweden. 



L. BRONDELIANUS, Bourguignat. PL 51, fig. 1. 



Elongated cj'lindrical, rather small, shortly carinate behind ; 

 blackish, j^ellowish gray below, elongately reticulated ; ocular 

 tentacles blackish, minutely tuberculated with black ; shield 

 large, long, not adhering in front, dilated, rounded before and 

 behind, concentrically striukite. Length, 1-7 inches. 



Algiers. 



Said to resemble the section Krynickia by its very posterior 

 orifice, and shield only adhering behind. The animal can thus 

 withdraw its head completely beneath the fore-part of the shield. 

 No differential characters are given from L. agrestis, of which it 

 may be a variety. 



L. LOMBRICOIDES, Morelet. PL 52, figs. 22, 23. 



Yellowish pink, with black dots, tail subcarinate ; mantle 

 long, very contractile in front, the front half concentrically, the 

 back part obliquely striate. Length, 1'5 inches. 



Portugal. 



This belongs to the group Malino, characterized by the striae 

 of the mantle, as given above. 



