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Occurrence of Cyclostoma elegans var. fasciata 

 Picard in England.— Mr. C. T. Musson, of Nottingham, has 

 kindly placed the whole of his fine collection of British land 

 and freshwater shells in my hands for examination, and in 

 looking over it I observed several specimens of the above 

 variety amongst some Cyclostoma elegans from Chatham in Kent, 

 and Tintern, Monmouthshire. This variety was noticed and 

 figured by Gualtieri, and afterwards by Draparnaud, who dis- 

 tinguished it as var. y and characterised it as Cinerea fasciis 

 duabus fuscis, iuterniptis. Picard, in 1840 ("Moll. Somm. in 

 Bull. Soc. Lin. Nord," I. p. 258) would seem to have been the 

 first to bestow a definite name upon it. This variety is described 

 by Moquin-Tandon as " Shell ash-coloured, with two interrupted 

 brown or violet bands." We have thus another variety added 

 to our native fauna, and from two widely separated localities. — 

 J. W. Taylor. 



Limax maximus var. Johnston! Moq. in East 

 Gloucestershire. — Among some very interesting slugs sent 

 me last October by Mr. E. J. Elliott, of Stroud, was one of 

 much interest which he found in East Gloucestershire near that 

 town. In its markings it was a characteristic specimen of the 

 variety Johnstoni, which has the shield spotted with black and 

 the back marked with points and with two fascise of the same 

 colour. But in its ground colour it differed most completely. 

 There was no trace whatever of the usual ash colour of the 

 species, but the animal, which was about two-thirds grown, was 

 entirely of a delicately clear and translucent lilac or lavender 

 tint, and so strikingly different in this respect that I venture 

 for the present to call it Limax fnaxhmis var. Johnstoni Moq., 

 sub-var. lilacina mihi. Mr. Elliott sent me many other interest- 

 ing specimens which I shall notice in print on another occasion. 

 — W. Denison Roebuck, Dec. 1884. 



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