116 AGRIOLIMAX AGRESTIS. 



The snbvar. panormltana L. & p. ditters externally only in the colouring tend- 

 ing to olive-brown, and internally is said to show a more digitate penial gland. 



Hants N.— Preston Candover, Oct. 1886 ! H. P. Fitzgerald. 



Sussex W.— Ratham, April 1889 ! W. Jeffery. 



Gloucester E.— Stroud, March 1884 ! E. J. Elliott. 



Gloucester W.— Stroud, Oct. 1883 ! E. J. Elliott. 



Notts.— Roadsides, Mapperley, May 1885 ! and Beauvale Abbey, Sept. 1884 ! 

 C. T. Musson. Garden, Tuxford, June 1888 ! W. A. Gain. 



Stafford— Gardens, Cheadle, April 1886 ! K. B. Webb. Croxden Abbey (J. R. B. 

 Jlasefield, Staffordshire List, 1902). 



Derby— Clifton, June 1889, L. E. Adams. 



Radnor— Pen-y-bont, Nov. 1903 ! F. Hall. 



Merioneth— Gardens, Pale, Corwen, May 1887 ! T. Ruddy. 



Pembroke— North Cliff, Tenljy (A. G. Stubbs, J. of Conch., Jnly 1900). 



Lancashire S. — Know.sley near Liverpool (W. E. Collinge, J. of Mai., June 1893).. 

 Farington, June 1890 ! W. H. Heatlicote. 



York S.E. — Pansy -beds in garden, Westwood, Beverley, May 1884 (J. D. But- 

 terell, J. of Conch., Jan. 1883). 



York N.E.— Egton Bridge, Aug. 188.5 ! Baker Hudson. Skel ton Beck Valley, 

 near Saltburn, May 1887 ! and roadsides, Kaskelf, Oct. 1882 ! W.D.R. 



York S.W.— Garden, HolniKrtli, Jan. 1885 ! H. E. Craven. Garden, AVakefield, 

 Jan. 1885 ! J.Wilcock. Bottoms, Heckmondwike, Mch. 1903 ! T. Castle. Apperley 

 Bridge, and in gardens near Peel Park, Bradford (Soppitt >.<: Carter, Nat., 1888, p. 97). 

 Penistone (L. E. Adams, Nat., Oct. 1893, p. 315). 



York Mid W. — Wood near Tadcaster, F. ti. Binnie (J. Darker Butterell, J. of 

 Conch., Jan. 1883). Near Manchester Hole, Nidderdale, July 1886 ! Kettlewell, 

 May 1886 ! and abundant at top of Greenhow Hill, Wharf edale, April 1887 ! AY.D.R. 



York N.W.— Bolton Castle, Wensleydale, jMay 1888 ! W.D.R. 



Durham— Durham, May 1887 ! Rev. H. E. F'ox. 



Wigtown— Springbank near Stranraer, Sept. 1890 ! W. Evans. 



Haddington— Dirleton Common, North Berwick, Sept. 1890 ! W. Evans. 



Antrim— Cave Hill, near Belfast, 1893, R. Welch. 



Leitrim— Drumshambo, Dec. 1901, J. Welch. 



■Waterford— Near Clonmel, April 1888, A. H. Delap. 



Belgium — Var. nigrescens, Brassels (Colbeau, Mai. Belg., 1859, p. 7). 



Spain — A'ar. panorniitana, Gibraltar (Simroth, op. cit. ). 



Portugal — Var. nigra, common in Estremadura, in the Alemtejo, and in Algarvo 

 (Morelet, Moll. Port., 1845, p. 34). 



Italy — Yax. panoi-mitana, Palermo, Sicily (Simroth, op. cit.). 



Spain — Gibraltar (Simroth, op. cit.). 



Greece — Yax. panormitana, Canea in Crete (Simroth, op. cit.). 



Azores — The black form of tliis species, the var. panormitrinn of Simroth, is 

 found above the zone of cultivation, and has been distinguished as var. asoriai by 

 Cockerell, to emphasize the ^^•idely distant place of its evolution, but as no differ- 

 ences are known, either externally or internally, I am unable to agree with the 

 application of a distinctive name to the Azorean individuals merely on account of 

 their remote insular locality. 



Geographical Distribution. — Agrioliina.r agrestis is very widely 

 distributed over the whole Palpearctic region, and has been carried by 

 commerce to North and South America, South Africa, Australia, Tas- 

 mania, New Zealand, and the Mauritius. 



In the United States this species is steadily spreading, owing to the great 

 amount of intercommunication between the different states, and it will 

 doubtless ultimately oust the aboriginal species with which it may come in 

 ciimpetition. ^ 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 



In the case of this species we are able to dispense with the necessity of 

 giving details for the various districts, inasmuch as throughout the whole 

 of England and Wales it is abundantly and generally diffused, from the 

 coast-level even to the summits of the hills, and there is probably not a 

 plot of cultivated ground on which it is not to be found, it being absent 



