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Italy — Vav. tristis Less. & Poll., about Auronzon near Cadore in Venetia, at 

 Monte St. Elia in Calabria, and about Palermo in Sicily (Less. & Poll., op. cit.). 



Norway— Uniformly pale brown specimens abound at Tromso, 70° north lat. 

 (B. Esmark, Moll. Arct. Norw., 1882, p. 97). 



VARIATIONS IN MARKINGS OF ANIMAL. 



Var. punctata Picard, Moll. Somme, 1840, p. 164. 



LimcLX agresiis var. functulatus Dum. & Mort., Cat. Moll. Savoie, 1857, p. 10. 

 Limax veranyanus Bourg., Spic. Make, 1861, p. 30, pi. 13, f. 9. 

 Limax agrestis ^ Jiorentinus Less. & Poll., Mon. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 50. 

 Limax agrestis var. bimaculatd T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Animal greyish or whitish, sprinkled with fine black spots. 



The sub-var. punctulata is described as sprinkled with black. 



The sub-var. vepanyana Bourg. appears hardly to differ from typical punctata, 

 except in the greater number and smaller size of the spots. 



Tlie sub-var. florentina Less. & Poll, is described as eighty or more millimetres 

 in length, and adorned with blackish-brown spots. 



The sub-var. bimaeulata is described as possessing pale ochre-bro\\'n spots on 

 tlie shield, and greyish ones on the body, with pale-brown tentacles. 



Dorset — Siib-var. himaculata, Parkstone, T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Hants S.— Var. punctata, Christchurch, Nov. 188.3 ! C. Ashford. 



Worcester— Var. punctata, garden, Stourport, July 1888 (Williams, J. of Conch., 

 July 1889). 



Pembroke — Var. punctata, near Pembroke, June 188.5 ! Mrs. Trayler. 



Notts. — Var. punctata, garden, Tuxford, Sept. 1885 ] W. A. Gain. 



Dublin— Sub-var. himaculata, plentiful in garden, Leeson Park, Dublin, in 

 November (Scharff, Slugs of Ireland, 1891, p. 527). 



France— In the departments of the Ain, Haute Loire, and the Seine. Sub-var. 

 veranyana in shady places of the valleys throughout the mountain chain in the 

 Alpes Maritimes. 



Italy — Sub-var. florentina was found by Marchese Paulucci, at Castellonchio, at 

 Novoli, and at Legnaia near P'lorence (Less. & Poll., op. cit.). Sub-var. veranyana 

 is chiefly found about Genoa (Bourg., op. cit.). 



Var. reticulata MiiUer, Verm. Hist., 1774, ii., p. 10. 



Lintax reticulaius Miiller, op. cit. 



Limax agrestis var. 17 F^russac, Hist., 1819, pi. 5, f. 7. 



Limax agrestis \ sylvaticus Moq.-Tand., Hist. Moll. France, 1855, p. ii., p. 23, pi. 3, f. 2. 



Limax agrestis ^ ohscurus Moquin-Tandon, op. cit. 



Liviax agrestis v&r. sttbreticulatus Dum. & Mort., Cat. Moll. Sav., 1857, p. 10. 



Limax agrestis var. maculatus Dum. & Mort., Cat. Moll. Sav., 1857, p. 10. 



Agriolimax pallidus Q /usconotatus L. & P., Mon. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 51, pi. 1, f. 6. 



Animal with a variable ground tint, with irregular dark spots and interstitial 

 lineolation. 



The sub-var. sylvatiea is described by Moquin-Tandon as of variable ground 

 colour, with irregular spots, the head often of a clear brown. The var. 17 of Ferussac 

 is quoted as synonymous. 



The sub-var. maculata is described as irregularly spotted. 



The sub-var. subreticulata is described as having the interstitial lineolation 

 more diffuse. 



The sub-var. fusconotata Less. & Poll, has brown spots, or is subreticulate upon 

 a pale ground colour. 



The sub-var. nigricans Westerlund is described as grey, with somewhat coal- 

 escent black spots and dark tentacles. 



The sub-var. obSCUPa is described as reddish with brown spots. 



The var. reticulata and its sub-varieties really represent the most prevalent type, 

 being probably found in every locality where the species exists in the British Isles. 



Var. nigra Morelet, Moll. Port., 1845,'"p. 34. 



Limax agrestis a niger Morelet, op. cit. 



Limax agrestis var. nigrescens Colbeau, Mai. Eelg., 1859, p. 7. _ 



Agriolimax panorviitanus Less. & Poll., Mon. Limac. Ital., 1882, p. 52, pi. 1, f. 5. 

 Limax agrestis var. azorica Ckll. 



Animal entirely or almost entirely black, the colour sometimes invading the 

 side-areas of the sole, as in Limax cincreo-nigcr, hut the black pigment niay be 

 discharged by immersing the animal in liquor potassce, tlie body then becoming of a 

 rich brown colour. 



