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Amalia gagates v. plumbea Moq. Disley (K.H.J.). Plentiful 



in nursery-gardens at Sale. 



Amalia gagates v. rava Wlms. One specimen, Ashton-on- 



Mersey (Milne and Oldham). Plentiful in nursery-gardens at 

 Sale. 



Amalia sowerbyi (Fer.). Chester (Bellars). Near Jackson's Boat 



[Sale], on the Cheshire side of the river (Hardy). Gardens at 

 Sale (Milne and Oldham). Manley (Nixon Coll.). 



Limax maximus L. This variable slug is widely distributed 

 and common in woods and gardens, and upon old walls. 

 Specimens from Sale are referred by Mr. Roebuck to th*. 

 true type of the species = v. vulgaris of Moquin-Tandon. 



Limax maximus v. cinerea Moq. Two specimens from 



Bowdon (Milne and Oldham). 



Limax maximus v. fasciata Moq. Bowdon, Baguley (Milne 



and Oldham). Sale, Marple, Romiley. 



Limax maximus v. cellaria D'Arg. Bowdon, Wythenshawe 



near Northenden (Milne and Oldham). Sale, Romiley. 



Limax maximus V. miilleri Moq. Several specimens in a 

 nursery-garden at Sale. 



Limax cinereo-niger Wolf. During the summer of 1895 I took 



about a dozen examples of this slug in woods at Romiley, 

 Compstall, and Marple. 



Limax cinereo-niger v. luctuosa Moq. In the same localities 



as the type, and in about equal numbers. 



Limax flavus L. Not common. Chester (Bellars). Nursery- 

 garden at Sale (Milne and Oldham). Birkenhead (W.J.F.). 

 Manley (Nixon Coll.). 



Limax marginatus (MiiU.). Local, and not as a rule plentiful. 

 Numerous at Upton in 1852, upon beech trees (Byerley). Near 

 Congleton (T. D. A. Cockerel!, 'Naturalist,' 1886, p. 58). 

 Mere Park and Bowdon (Milne and Oldham). Marple, 

 Romiley. 



Limax marginatus v. nemorosa Baud. Three examples under 



the bark of a beech at Capesthorne. 



Limax marginatus v. bettonii SordellL Two on a tree-trunk 



in the Govt Valley near Errwood Hall ; one, Romiley. 

 Limax marginatus v. fulva Norm. Two in the Goyt Valley 

 with the last. 



Agriolimax agrestis L. This destructive species abounds 



every when 



April 1890 



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