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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



vindans,^ add the following note : — 

 " It is noteworthy that these — the only 



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Irish specimens of T. maugei that we 

 have seen — should differ completely in 

 colour from the English examples, and 

 should resemble the common form, 

 which, according to Morelet, occurs in 

 Portugal." This seems in favour of the 

 view that at any rate they have not 

 been introduced from England. 



LIMACIDAE. 

 Limax maximus Linne. 



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Geneially distributed, but only locally 

 common. Usually occurs luo.stabundantly 

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1 Proc. E.I.A. (2), iv. 673, 1888. 



but is also to be met with in the open 

 country, and lives in most of our old 

 native woods. Seems absent fi-om, or very 

 rare in, some districts in the western 

 counties, and the only islands from 

 which it has been reported are Achill, 

 in West Mayo, and Inishbofin, in West 

 Galway. On Clare Island, and on the 

 adjoining mainland of West Mayo, there 

 is a striped form of Lwiax arhorum, 

 which is almost indistinguishable from 

 a half grown specimen of the present 

 slug, but all the shells taken from these 

 striped specimens of L. arhorum have 

 been quite typical of that species. The 

 supposed Inishbofin examples of L. 

 maximus are more likely to have been 

 the above form of L. arhorum. 



Limax cinereo-niger Wolf. 



Limax maximus var. ?, Thompson, Cat. 

 L. and F. W. Moll, of Ireland, p. 47, 

 1840 ; var. cinereo-niger, Scharff, Irish 

 Nat., p. 88, 1892. 



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Generally distributed, but must be 

 considered a rare and local slug in Ire- 

 land. The type is particularly scarce, 

 and the forms usually met with are 

 striped or spotted, resembling the vars. 



