ARION SUBFUSCUS. 199 



Var. bicolOP Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll., 1855, p. 11. 



Arion ru/us var. bicolor Moquin-Tandon, I.e. 



Avion empiricorunt vav. I KSrussac, Hist. Moll., 1819, p. 62, pi. 1, ff. B-7. 



Arion sub/uscus var. iateritius Coilinge, Conchologist, 1892, p. 63. 



.\NIMAL of a 1-ed or reddish colour, with darlver dorsiiin, without darlcer lateral 

 banding. 



Tlie var. biCOlor s.str., animal orange-red, with brown dorsum, foot-fringe 

 orange with black lineolation. 



The sub-var. latepitia is of a deep brick-red, which is not due to mucus, lateral 

 bands absent, foot-fringe light grey, lineolated with pale brown or cliocolate. 



WALES. 



Glamorgan— A sub-var. of a rich wine colour on banks of river Ely, St. Pagan's, 

 near Cardiff, March 1885 ! F. W. Wotton. 



SCOTLAND. 



Fife and Kinross— Suh-v. UitevHia, Mount Melville, St. Andrews (Coilinge, I.e.). 



IRELAND. 



Dublin— A sub-variety found by Dr. Scharfl in a small pine-wood, in Lord 

 Howth's demesne, Howth, in Sept. 1900, had a pale reddish-brown shield, and red- 

 dish body rugfe, a colouring not, as is usual, entirely due to slime, but to the 

 presence of superficial pigment cells. 



CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 



France- Environs of Paris {Ferussac, op. cit. , p. 63). 

 Var. fulig-inea Morelet, Moll. Port., 1845, p. 30, pi. 2, f. 1. 



Arion /uligineus Morelet, op. cit. 



Arion (^Limax) cinctus var fuscescens Dum. & Mort., Moll. Savoie, 1857, p- 7. 



Arion brunnens Lehinann, Mai. Blatt., 1861, p. 166. 



Arion tiinacopus Westerlund, Exp. Crit. Moll., 1871, p. 36. 



Arion Jlageilus and var. philiipsi Coilinge, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1893, p. 252, pi. 9. 



Animal of a dark brown, sides paler, with or without darker lateral banding, 

 fringe yellowish. 



The var. fuliginea s.str., is of a rich brown, dorsunj and shield very dark 

 smoky-brown, foot-fringe yellow, reddish at the extremities. 



The sub-var. brunnea is eoffee-brown, the dorsum darker brown or blackish, 

 the sides of body and shield paler red-brown, lateral banding indistinct, fringe 

 yellowish with black lineolation ; mucus colourless. 



The sub-var. limaeopa is dark fuscous above, paler on the sides ; mucus yellow. 



The sub-var. flagfella is dark vandyke-brown along the back, light brown on 

 the sides, upon which are the vandyke-brown lateral bands ; the foot-fringe and 

 vicinity are pale brownish-white, the fringe with sepia lineoles ; sole pale yellow. 



The sub-var. philiipsi differs in the back and mantle being deep mahogany- 

 brown, the sides of body white with black dashes. 



ENGLAND. 



Somerset S. — Sub-var. hrunnui, Bridgwater, Aug. 1884! W. Vinson. 



Hants. N. — Sub-v. ficiHrnf a,. Preston Candover, Nov. 1885 ! Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. 



Surrey— Sub-var. hrunnea, Haslemere, E. W. Swanton (C. Pannell, Journ. of 

 Conch., Jan. 1902). 



Middlesex— Sub-var. brunnea, Churchyard Bottom Wood, Highgate, May 1889 ! 

 H. Wallis Kew. 



Warwick — A modified form of the »\\h-\a,i:flagell(i, Sutton Coldfield, H. Overton 

 (W. E. Coilinge, Journ. of Mai., Dec. 1904, p. 98). 



Salop — Sub-var. brunnea, Oswestry, .Tune 1885 I Baker Hudson. 



Pembroke — Sub-var. brunncn, near Pembroke, June 1885 ! Mrs. Trayler. 



Notts. — Sub-var. brunnea, garden, Tuxford, April 1885 ! W. .\. Oaiu. 



Derby— Sub-var. brunnea, Clifton, 1889 ! Lionel ¥j. Adams. 



Northumberland S.— Sub-var. brunnea, Stocksfield-on-Tyne, May 1885 ! H. E. 

 Craven. 



Cumberland — Sub-var. brunnea, Skiddaw Forest, Sept. 1890 I Rev. J. Hawell. 



SCOTLAND. 



Perth Mid — Snb-var. brunnea, Dunkehl roiul on banks of river Tay, Sept. 1904 ! 

 W. Evans. 



Aberdeen S. — Sub-var. bnainea, garden, Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Oct. 1904 ! G. Sim. 



IRELAND. 



Armagh — Sub-var. brunnea, Armagh, June 1885 ! Rev. H. W. Lett. 



Monaghan— Snb-var. brunnea, Drumreaske, Sept. 1904 ! W. F. de Vismes Kane. 



Louth— Sub-var. brunnea, near .Blackball demesne, Sept. 1904 ! P. H. Grierson. 



