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limits. It is a favourite morsel with the Hedgehog, and furnishes 
food also to the Blindworm (Anguis fragilis). 
Limax maximus. The Great Slug.— Generally distributed, 
frequenting outhouses and cellars in damp situations. It has 
been known to enter larders and feed on raw meat.* In woods 
also it is not uncommon, and is fond of creeping on the trunks 
of trees on wet nights, and on sugar, when placed there to attract 
Lepidoptera.—B. 
It is somewhat curious that none of the Sussex conchologists 
have included in their lists the Shell Slug, Testacella haliotidea, 
which is apparently not found on the chalk soil or sand, although 
it is not very uncommon on the London clay. 
Fam HELICID. 
Succinea putris. The Amber Snail—so called from the colour 
of the shell—is to a great extent amphibious. It is not uncommon 
in ditches overgrown with herbage, and appears especially partial 
to the stems of Ginanthe crocata.—B. 
Succinea elegans. The Slender Amber Snail.—In similar 
situations, but rarer. Taken at Henfield, and dead specimens 
found amongst the rejectamenta of the floods in the level between 
Henfield and Steyning.—B. Included, under the name Succinea 
Pfeifferi, in a list of Mollusca found in the neighbourhood of 
Brighton (M), but not at Eastbourne (G). By some conchologists 
the two species have been considered to be mere varieties of the 
same species, great variability of form being observable in all the 
species of the genus Succinea ; but elegans differs from putris in 
the darker colour of its body, and the more slender shape of the 
shell, as well as in its longer and more pointed spire. In ‘ The 
Zoologist’ for 1862 (pp. 8138 and 8171), Capt. Bruce Hutton has 
recorded some interesting observations on S. elegans, which 
lead him to consider it a distinct species. He found it in some 
abundance on leaves of the yellow iris. 
Vitrina pellucida. The Transparent Glass Shell.—Abundant 
on the clay on and under dead sticks and leaves in hedge- 
bottoms and woods. Less common on the sand. It appears very 
indifferent to cold, often crawling about in the severest frost.—B. 
Specimens have been obtained at Ratham, near Chichester (J), 
* See ‘The Zoologist, 1861, p. 7819. 
