SWANTON : LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 1 89 



Agriolimax agrestis L. — The most abundant of our slugs. 



Var. sylvatica Moq. — Bratton St. Maur. 



Var. nigra Morelet. — Bratton St. Maur ; Glastonbury. 1 



Var. grisea Ckll. — Shepton Montague. 



Var. punctata Picard. — Hatch Beauchamp (Bovvell). 

 *A. laevis MiilL, i774(=Limax brunneus Drap., 1801). — A 

 somewhat local species. " Among heaps of stones by the side of 

 the lane which runs parallel with the cliff from Walton to Portishead, 

 and among decaying vegetation by the side of a rhine in Portishead 

 Moor" (Norman) ; Coombe Down, Bath (Mrs. Oldroyd) ; in damp 

 situations, Bratton St. Maur ; " Not uncommon by a ditch, Hatch 

 Beauchamp" (Bowell). 



Testacella maugei Fe'r., 18 19. — Introduced with foreign 

 plants, therefore very local. There are examples in the Jenyns 

 Collection of land and freshwater mollusca in the Bath Museum; 

 doubtless these were taken in the district, and others in 

 the Bristol Museum, which Mr. Wilson tells me were taken 

 at Long Ashton. We have also had examples taken from a 

 nursery garden at Castle Cary. The remarks on this species 

 as given in Norman's list are so interesting that we here give 

 them in full:—" Forty-six years ago this most interesting mollusk was 

 found in what were then Messrs. Sweet and Miller's, but which are 

 now Messrs. Jaraway and May's, nursery grounds at Clifton. From 

 that time to the present it has thriven and propagated freely in its 

 original locality, and has likewise been introduced with plants into 

 many other gardens in the west of England. In this way it has estab- 

 lished itself at Bath, at Buslington, at Clevedon (in the gardens of Sir- 

 Arthur Elton and those of Lee), and at Taunton, and thus may be 

 considered to have made good its claim for admission into our list of 

 British mollusca." 



Vitrina pellucida Mull. — " Widely distributed but not abun- 

 dant " (Norman). Mr. Bowell writes : " Not very common at Hatch 

 Beauchamp, near Taunton. Largest specimen measured alt. 3 '8 mm., 

 breadth 67 mm., but the variation is not constant = var. major 

 Fer. ? " It is common and frequent in the Wincanton district. There 

 are typical specimens in the Jenyns Collection in the Bath Museum, 

 and others from Long Ashton in the Bristol Museum. 



Hyalinia polita Held. — A common species. " Common among 

 damp heaps of stones and moss in woods; very fine in Brockley 

 Coombe" (Norman). Possibly the 'very fine' specimens were Hya- 

 linia draparnaldi Beck, for this species occurs in the neighbourhood 



1 Invariably occurs under pieces of wood in damp situations, near to buildings, sheds, etc, 

 I have never observed it in any other habitat, 



