6-i LIMAX CINEREO-NIGER. 



Somerset N.— Cleeve Combe (Noniian, Soni. Moll., 1860, p. 139). 



Stafford—Shelbrook, Cannock Chase, June 1886! L. E. A.lanis. 



Merioneth— Bont-ddu, Dolgelly, July 18S6 (F. G. Fenn, J. of C, July 1887, Ji. 198). 



Carnarvon— Llanbedrog, May 1901 ! C. Oldham. 



York Mid W.— Shipley Glen, Sept. 1886! J. A. Hai-greaves. 



Germany— Fredrichsvoda, Thnilngia (E. von Martens, Jahrb. Deutsch. Mai. Ges., 

 1877, p. 214). Saxony, Dr. Collin (Malm. Skand. Limac, 1868, p. 60). Tlic sub-v'ar. 

 monfann, Itamsau, near Berchtesgaden ; Isle of Herren, Cliienisee; Milseburg on the 

 Rhine and Tubingen (Clessin. E.'cc. Moll. Fauna, 1881, p. 60). 



France — Haute Savoie (Dum. & Mortil., op. cit.). Gran<le Chartreuse in the 

 Is^re(Moquin-Tand(m, op. cit.). Plombieres-les- Bains in the Vosges (Bourg., Spic. 

 Mai., 1862, p. 20). Jura and Dauphiny (Bourg., Grande Chartreuse, 1862, p. 32). 



Belgium— The sub-var. maIaailogi)niiii, the ruins of Salni-Clifttcau, June 1867, 

 (Colbeau, op. cit.). 



Switzerland — Sub-var. atrn Rnz., Bad Leuk, anil on the Gemmi Pa.'iS, also at 

 Einfi.sclithal near Bad Leuk (Bottger, Nachtbl., 1885, p. nl). Jorat (Raz., I.e.). The 

 sub-var. encjadinemis aX St. Moritz, Grisons (Westerlund, Fauna Europ., 1876, p. 8). 



Italy — The var. mrnira inhabits the elevated region of the Alps ; the loftiest 

 known locality in Italy is in Piedmont on Monte Mucrone, at an altitude of 2,200 

 metres (about 7,210 feet) ; other lofty stations in the same province are on Monte 

 Cenisio; at Crissolo, in tlie Valle del Po; at Castelsee, and at Devero (Less. Sc Poll., 

 Mon. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 29). Thai von Thenaus, ne.ar Susa (Simon & Bottger, 

 N.achtbl., 188-1, p. 42). In Umbria, near Spoleto (Pantanelli, Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital, 

 1876). In Liguria, between Jlcnton and Genoa, May 1890! J. E. Somerville. The 

 sub-var. ^v/;-0)?fK on the Hill of Tenda and Monte Codena, also at Groscavallo, Valle 

 di Lanza, in Lombardy (Less. & Poll., op. cit., ji. 27). 



The specimens fiom Orvieto in Umbria (Marchese Paulucci) and from Chiara- 

 nionti, Sardinia (Dr. Falchi) had the foot-sole pale and merely margined witii blacli 

 (Lessona & Pollonera, I.e.). 



Austro-Hungary — Sub-var. cngadinensis, Transylvania (Westerlund, op. cit., p. 8). 



Norway — Very common in Christiania, Christiansand, and Hamar Stifts ; also 

 at Aafjorden, Vigten, Leko, and R6d6, in Trondjhem Stift ; and Grotii in Amt of 

 Nordland. Sub-var. leucoqaster, Laurvik and other places in Christiania Stift 

 (Esmark, J. of Conch., Oct.' 1886, p. 100). 



Sweden — Sub-var. iilger, Gunnebo and Ljungskile; Nerike (Hartmann), Stock- 

 holm (Thedenius) (JIalni, op. cit., p. 61). 



Russia — South FinlandandAlandIsles,Nordenskioldand Nylandcr(Malm,op. cit.) 



Var. eporediensis Lessona, Moll. Piemonte, 1880, p. 1, pi. 2, f. 18. 



Limax subalpinus Q eporcdiatsis Lessona, op. cit. 



Body uniformly black ; SHIELD blackish, sprinkle<l 

 with whitish spots. Formula (321 123). Internal shell 

 large, concave, and sinistral. 



This variety, of which apparently only one specimen 

 has been found, has, judging by its extremely abnormal 

 shell, been of sinistral organization, with the lespiratory 

 and other orifices on the left side. 



Not hitherto found in the British Isles. , f''t=- 81.-Iinernal shell of 



, , I .. 1 T -ii- 1 L ,T « T> ,1 Lima.x eporediensis Lessona 



Italy — Andrate above Ivrea, Piedmont (Less. & Poll., (after Lessona). 

 op. cit., p. 37). 



FUNDAilF.NTAL DODY-COLOUR CIXEREOVS. 



Var. einerea Moq.-Tand., Hist. Moll. France, 1855, ii., p. 29. 



Limaj: cinercus a Miiller, Verm. Hist., 1774, p. 5. 



Limax vtaxinms X einerea. IMoq.-Tand., op. cit. 



Limax strobeli Pini, Moli. Esino, 1876, p. 22, pi. u, ff. 1], 12. 



Animal entirely cinereous, or ash-coloured ; shield bluish-black. 



The snb-var. strobcll of Pini differs in the ash-colour of the body being tinged 

 v\'ith yellowish, and the keel paler. 



Galway— Killereran (B. J. Clarke, Ann. N.II., 1843, p. 333). 



France— Distributed throughout the country, and also reported from Bastia in 

 Corsica (Grateloup, Dist. Geog. Limac, IS.i.'i, p. 2). 



Italy— The sub-var. strobcH at Maccugnaga, Val Anzasca, Piedmont, at an alti- 

 tude of 1,.323 metres (about 4,340 feet) (Lessona & Pollonera, op. cit.). Not rare 

 about Esino, and in the Valle del Varone, near.Premana in Lombardy (Pini, op. cit.). 



