180 ARION ATER. 



Var. hiberna Mabille, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1868, p. 134. 



Ariou ItibernHs Mabille, op. cit. 



Avion entpiricoruin var. violescetis Collinge, mss. 



Animal of n beautiful rusty purple, paler at the sides; in alooliol the brilliant 

 and velvety aspect is lost and the animal becomes of a purply-black. 



Edinburgh — A deep purple variety, Braidburn near Edinburgh, .Tuly 1888 ! W. 

 Eagle Clarke. 



Fife and Kinross — Var. violescens, St. Andrews, W. E. CoUinge. 



Dublin— An uniformly claret-coloured variety, amongst the fallen pine needles, 

 which tliey much resemble, in the pine-woods at Howth and Killakee, in the Dublin 

 Mountains, Sept. 1890, R. F. Scharff. 



France — Found in winter only in the Forests of Meudon and Bondy in the 

 Department of the Seine ; it has also been reported from the Aisne, Oise, Seine 

 et Marne, and Seine et Oise. 



Var. rufa L., Syst. Nat, 1758, ed. x., vol. i., p. 652. 



Limax nt/its L., op. cit. 



Limajc ru/jts B nigrescens Razoumowsky, Hist. Nat. Jorat, 1798, i-, p. 268. 



Ltntax coccineus Gistel, Natiirg. d. Thierreichs, 1848, p. 168. 



Avion e]7ipiricoruin jonstonii Kalenicz., Mosc. Bull., 1851, p. 113. 



Avion etnpivicovum lainavckii Kalenicz., op. cit., p. 11.3. 



Avion vufus a vuiffavis Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, ii., p. 10, pi. 1, f. 1. 



Avion vu/us y vubcv Moquin-Tandon, op. cit., pi. 1, f. 21. 



Avion ru/us e drapavnaudi Moquin-Tandon, op. cit., pi. 1, f. 23. 



Avion sewainiana Mabille, Ann. Malac, 1870, p. 109. 



Avion vli/us i° rufula Baudon, M^m. Limaciens de I'Oise, 1871, p. 4. 



Animal red or reddish, usually of a. ferrugineous tint, with generally a paler 

 and brighter fringe. 



The sub-vars. jonstonil, vulgaris, and sepvainiana are described as rufous 

 and are synonymous with the typical rufa. 



The sub- var. rufula is pale rufous, and is in part the var. pallescens Moq.-Tand. 



The sub-vars. coeelnea, lamarckii, and rubra have all been described as 

 bright veiinilion or deep red, and are adopted in that sense. 



The sub-var. draparnaudl is deep red with a yellow foot-fringe. 



The sub-var. nigreseens Kaz. is of deep red-brown, with red foot-fringe. 



This variety is the prevalent form in the dry and warm regions of Central Europe, 

 wliere it frequently attains a great size and a brilliant colour, far surpassing the 

 comparativelj^ small and dull-coloured examples of our own country. The var. nifa 

 usually occupies the plains and the lower mountain slopes, seldom ascending above 

 an altitude of 3,000 feet, while the black variety is most common in the outlying 

 countries, and also ascends to much higher elevations on the mountains. 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 



Channel Isles— Saint's Bay, Guernsey (Tomlin it Marquand, J. of Conch., Jan. 

 1903, p. 287). Fermain Bay, Guernsey, and on Sark, July 1886, B. Tomlin. 



Devon S.— Culverhole, Aug. 1892, L. E. Adams. 



Devon N.— Var. rufa-fascififa , Okelmmpton, Sept. 1904! Eev. W. W. Mason. 



Hants. S.— Frequent near Christchurch, 1886, C. Aahford. 



Hants. N.— Preston Candover, April 1884 ! Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. 



Kent E. — Sub-var. rubra, Shepherdswell, Aug. 1896 ! L. E. Adams. 



Kent W.— St. Mary Cray, July 1883 (Cockerell, N.H. Notes, 1883, p. 124). 



Middlesex— Sub-var. drapnrnaudi, Highgate, June 1888 ! H. Wallis Kew. 



Suffolk E.— Needham Market (A. Maylield, J. of Conch., April 1903, p. 295). 

 Blaxhall, July 1885 ! G. T. Rope. 



Norfolk E.— A sub-var. with scarlet foot-fringe common at Struinpshaw Hall, 

 July 1904 ! W. J. (). Holmes. 



Norfolk W.— King's Lynn, 1894, T. Fetch. 



Hereford— Nut infrequent (Boycott and Bowell, Moll. Hereford, 1899). 



Stafford— Cheadle (Masefield, Staff. List, 1902). Sub-var. drapnnmudi, near 

 Hartmgton, April 1890 ! L. E. Adams. 



Salop— Minsterley, May 1887 ! L. E. Adams. 



Glamorgan -Llandaft', ^Tuly 1885 ! F. W. Wotton. 



Pembroke— Near Pembroke, June 1885 ! Mrs. Trayler. 



Carnarvon— Sub var. rttfida, Bettws-y-Coed, Aug. 1865, C. Ashford. 



Lmcoln N. — Maltby Wood near Louth, Aug. 1888 ! H, ^Vallis Kew. 



.i°w'TP'^^'^''i"'' ^^'"' ^'^^^ Markham, April 1884! C. T. Mnsson. Stanton- 

 on the- Wolds E. J. Lowe. Wood, O.ssington (Gain, Brit. Nat., Nov. 1893, p. 224). 

 Hunger Hill Gardens, Nottingham (Dodd, Notts. List, 1893, p. 71) 



