ANNALS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. 



I. — On a Collection of Slugs from South Africa, tuith Descriptions 

 of some New Species. — By Walter E. Collinge, F.Z.S., 

 Assistant Lecturer in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Mason 

 University College, Birmingham. 



(Plates I. and II.) 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. H. Ponsonby, I have recently had 

 the opportunity of examining a small collection of slugs, the property 

 of the Trustees of the South African Museum, and I here wish to 

 express my best thanks to him for placing the same in my hands. 



The collection is an exceedingly interesting one, for in addition to 

 adding two well-known species to the South African fauna, there are 

 four new species, viz., 1 Amalia, 1 Apcra, and 2 Oopelta. 



I hope at no distant date to be able to examine the whole of the 

 slug collection in the South African Museum, which Mr. E. M. 

 Lightfoot has very kindly promised to forward to me for investigation. 



An examination of the published records of the moUuscan fauna 

 of this region shows a large number of genera and subgenera, and a 

 remarkable number of species in some particular genera. A very 

 large proportion of these have been described by Messrs. Melvili and 

 Ponsonby in a series of valuable papers published during the past 

 few 5'ears. In quite a recent paper * another 14 new species are 

 described, and probably many more await discovery. Dr. Sturany 

 in his valuable catalogue + enumerates 408 species. A recent 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1899 (ser. 7), vol. iv., pp. 192-200, pi. iii. 

 t Denk. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1898, Bd. Ixvii., pp. 537-642, 3 pis. 



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