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taken it and hatched it in a tub of water, keeping the young alive for some 

 weeks. — W. Macleay, Proc. Lin. Soc. New South Wales, July 17, 1883. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Slugs in Co. Waterford. — One of the most valuable consignments of 

 living slugs that I have lately received, in furtherance of my desire to 

 investigate the range and variation of this interesting group of mollusks, is 

 one that was sent me on the 21st September last, by my friend Mr. J. H. 

 Salter, of Newtown School, near Waterford, which included numerous 

 interesting varieties, two of them new to Britain. All the specimens sent 

 were collected in Co. Waterford, and within a couple of miles of the city 

 of Waterford. The two new British varieties are Testacella Maugei, var. 

 viridans, and Avion ater, var. bicolor. The Testacella, of which two speci- 

 mens were sent, was collected in a nursery -garden, and I believe that this 

 is the first occasion on which the species has been authoritatively and 

 certainly placed on record for Ireland. It is quite true that it has been 

 before reported, but there seems to have been room for doubt, and Thompson, 

 in his Irish Catalogue, stated that he had not been able to verify the reports. 

 Of course it had no doubt been imported from other stations. The variety 

 viridans, to which three specimens belonged, is the one which, according to 

 Morelet, is the prevalent form in Portugal, having the back a greenish brown 

 or bronzy hue and the foot brilliant orange. I have also great pleasure in 

 bringing forward, as an addition to the British list, the handsome variety 

 bicolor of Avion ater, of which there were numerous specimens. These 

 were collected in a very wet part of a small bog at Ballygunner. This 

 variety is analogous to the black-and-white form which Mr. Ashford and 

 I found near Trefriw and Bettws-y-Coed, and which I named albolateralis. 

 My var. has the sides snow-white and the back deep shining black, 

 the colours being sharply defined at their line of contact. In like 

 manner, the delicate primrose-yellow of the sides and handsome chocolate- 

 brown of the back of bicolor are sharply defined. In addition to these 

 interesting forms, Mr. Salter's slugs included very deep (almost black) 

 chocolate-brown examples of Arion ater, and a number of specimens of 

 Avion hortensis. Of Amalia marginata there were several, and this species 

 was of two forms of coloration, dark and light. The dark specimens, 

 Mr. Salter tells me, were from a garden ; the others from uuder stones by 

 the river. The specimens of Limacc maximus were of the typical form, and 

 so were the numerous adult specimens of L.flavus, but one of the juvenile 

 examples of this latter species was decidedly the blackest that Mr. Taylor 

 or I ever saw, with scarcely a trace of the yellow ground visible. One 

 specimen of L. arborum and numerous examples of L. agrestis complete the 

 enumeration of the slugs sent ; but I may also add that Mr. Salter included 

 a large number of examples of Zonites cellarius and one of Limnaa 



