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NOTES ON KENTISH MOLLUSCA. 



By H. C. HUGGINS. 



(Read before the Society, September nth, 1918). 



In the past two years I have been collecting in the chalk down 

 districts of Kent, between Sittingbourne and Maidstone, and hope 

 the following records, some new to Kent, may prove of interest. 



Limax cinereo-niger. — In June this year Mr. Greville 

 Tempany pointed out a half-grown specimen of this species crawling 

 on the road between Hucking and Stockbury, about five miles from 

 Maidstone. Subsequent searching revealed the metropolis of the 

 species, a row of very old hollow ash and hornbeam stumps, covered 

 with fungi. In all, I saw about two dozen specimens, of which two 

 were of the typical jet-black form, with a white keel. The remainder 

 were nearly all of an ashy white colour, more or less spotted and 

 banded with black, while two had the ground colour of a warm 

 fulvous brown, and one was entirely ashy white with a single lateral 

 dark grey band. 



Limax arborum. — In April last I took three very large examples 

 of this species of a uniform pure white colour, with the exception of a 

 very faint grey stripe on each side of the shield, at Hollingbourne. 



Limax flavus. — I took a single specimen of the var. grisea, deep 

 greyish black with white spots and transparent colourless slime on the 

 side of a pond at Hollingbourne. 



Limax tenellus.^ — Three specimens on August 25th under a 

 fungus-covered log in the beech woods at Hucking. This appears to 

 be a very early date, possibly they were attracted to the surface by 

 a heavy rain then falling. 



Acanthinula lamellata. — T found a dead example of this 

 species in the same beech wood at Hucking, which produced Z. 

 cinereo-iiiger Siud L. tenellus. The woods are of comparatively recent 

 date, mostly of beech, ash, and false acacia, but evidently they were 

 planted on the site of an ancient piece of forest land. 



Helicella gigaxii var. albina. — Among a .large colony of 

 typical examples found near Hucking I picked out four examples of 

 this scarce variety. 



Helicella virgata. — At Charing I found a colony of var. 

 hxalozona in company with the var. radiata on the hill-side. Both 

 these forms appear to be littoral in Kent except here, and the species 

 at Charing is also of the small maritime high-spired race. 



Helicella eleg'ans. — While collecting this mollusc near Kearsney 

 I found a number of specimens of a form I have not seen described, 



