470 



463. Anadenus altivagus, Theobald. 



Limax altivagus, Theobald, J. A. S. B. xxi, 1862, p. 489. 



Anadenus altivagus, Theobald, Cat. Land and Fresh w. Shells Brit. 

 India, 1876, addenda, p. i ; Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 65 ; 

 Theobald, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 47 ; Godwin- Austen. Moll. India, 

 i, 1882, p. 49, pi. 6, fig. 1 (animal), figs. 2-7 (anatomy), pi. 7, 

 fig. 1 (shell), figs. 5, 6 (anatomy) ; Tryon, Man. Conch, ser. 2, i, 

 1885, p. 249, pi. 59, fig. 62 (animal) ; *Pilsbry, Proc. Malac. Soc. 

 London, iii, 1898, p. 95, pi. 7, figs. 1-3, 5-7 (anatomy). 



Anadenus (Altivagus) altivagus, Cockerell, The Conchologist, ii, 

 1893, p. 192. 



Original description : " Corpore limaciforini, pallio lente- 

 granuloso, dorso rugose reticulato, more frohdis brassicae, colore 

 virescente-fusco sive lutescente-fulvo, interduin nigrescente, et 

 rarissime pallide aurantiaco pallio, minus colorato corpore. 

 Tentaculis quatuor nigris, capite nigro, infra pallescente. Ano ad 

 dextrum latus pallii, prope marginem posito, ad inediam partem 

 vix attingente. 



" Longitudinis (corpore extenso), 9 unc." (Theobald.) 



Hob. Cissutlej Hills, near Fagu, Narkanda, Saraon, etc., 6000 

 to 9000 ft. 



" This Limax is rather variable in colour, and large specimens, 

 when in motion and extended, exceed 9 inches in length, though 

 their ordinary dimensions is about 6. It feeds on fungi." 



Fig. 146. Anadenus altivagus. 

 (Shell. Copied from Land, and Freshw. Moll. India.) 



This somewhat cursory description is amplified by the excellent 

 account given by Godwin-Austen as follows : 



External description of animal (from spirit specimen) collected at 

 Simla : " Slug-like, rounded above ; foot rather pointed behind ; 

 no gland, with a narrow segmented pedal margin. Mantle closely 

 fitted to the foot behind, only slightly overlapping on the sides ; 

 the neck-lobes only partially developed near the respiratory orifice, 

 with a fine papillate surface. The respiratory and anal orifices 



