216 ARION HORTENSIS. 



France— Vai-. limbata is reported by Baudon from gardens in the Oise ; by 

 Millet from Maine-et-Loire ; by Pascal fiom the Hante Loire, and environs of Paris 

 in the department Seine; and by Vaniot from the south of Amiens in the Somme ; 

 sub-var. anthracia from Eaux Bonnes in Basses Pyr6ne6s ; and sub-var. pelophila 

 is recorded from the north of France and Areueil in the environs of Paris. 



Spain— Var. liiuhata, Galicia (Macho t. Hidalgo). 



Var. g-risea Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, p. U. 



Arfon /nscus var. griseus Moquin-Tandon, op. cit. 



Arion fitscus var. nemoralis IJum. & Mort., Moll. Savoie, p. 8. 



iVNiMAL pale grey, more or less nnieolorons, and without lateral bands, foot-sole 

 yellowish. 



The sub-var. nemoraliS is pale, the sides scarcely tinted, and the shield often 

 palest towards the centre. 

 ^ ENGLAND. 



Wilts. N.— Abundant about Marll)orough, E. Meyrick. 



Kent W.— Chislehurst, Sept. 1884 ! T. D. A. Cookerell. 



Middlesex — Among garden refuse, Bedford Park, Chiswick, Dec. 1884 ! T. D. A. 

 Cookerell. 



Norfolk E.— Heigham, May 1891 ! A. Mayfield. 



Warwick — Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon, Sept. 1884 ! 11. J. Attye. 



York N.E.— Battersby, (ireat Avton, Dec. 1884 ! Baker Hudson. Thornaby 

 (id., J. of Conch., April 1886, p. 48). 



York S.W.— Campsall Woods, May 1880 ! W. Denison Roebuck. Penistone, 

 .July 1890 ! Lionel E. Adams. 



IRELAND. 



Antrim— A pale yellowish-grey sub-variety at Cushendun, May 1886 ! Rev. S. A. 

 Breiian. 



Louth — A pale form of var. i/fi^ra, Droglieda, ( let. 1904 ! P. H. Grierson. 

 Leitrim — A pale form of var. r/risea, Moliill, July 1904! P. H. Clrierson. 



CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 



Belgium — Common at Roiimont, Luxemburg. 



France — Recorded as common at Chatillon-sur-Seine, Cote d'Or ; common in 

 fields, etc. , when not elevated, in the Ain ; about Lj'ons in the Rhone ; in the Pas 

 de Calais ; Maine et Loire ; the Haute Loire and about Paris in the department 

 of the Seine ; sub-var. ncmorali'i in Savoy. 



Spain — Galicia (Macho t. Hidalgo). 



Var. ccerulea Collinge, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1897, p. 4-14, pi. 31, fl'. 18, 19. 



I^imax fasciatus vnr. 5 Nilsson, Moll. SveciiE, 1822, p. i. 

 Avion canileus Collinge, op. cit. 



Akimal described as blue or greyish-blue with dark-blue lateral bands, and pale 

 yellow between the bands and the foot-fringe, sole white or pale-yellow, with red or 

 yellowish slime, fringe white without lineoles. 



Tills form was originally described as a variety, but was afterwards raised to 

 specific rank by its author. It is perhaps the same as Nil.sson'si/'//io,f/owi'n<«.?var 5. 



ENGLAND. 



Middlesex— Garden, Ealing, B. B. Woodward (Collinge, J. of Mai., Dec. 1895). 

 Berks— (W. E. Collinge, Conchologist, 1892, p. 26). 



Oxford— Near Oxford, 1890 (A^'. E. Collinge, J. of Mai., Dec. KS9.5, p. 73). 

 Lancashire S. — Knowsley near Liverpool, 1893 (Collinge, J. of Mai., June 1893). 



IRELAND. 



Dublin— (W. E. Collinge, Conchologist, 1892, p. 2(i). 



CONTINENT. IL DISTRIBUTION. 



S-weden—L. fasc'iatvs var. d, Lund (Nilsson, Hist. Moll. Sveeia>, 1822, p. i). 

 Var. lutea Baudon, Mein. Limac. Oise, 1871, p. 6. 



Arion horteiisis var. tuiens Baudon, op. cit. 



Avion hovtensis var. auveus Lessona, Arion. Piem., 1881, p. 10, f. 3. 



Animal alnio.st uniformly yellow, lateral bands faint. 



The var. lutea s.str. is pale yellow, slightly tinged with greenish, greyish 

 dorsally, with indistinct lateral banding. 



The sub-var. aurea is yellow, pale on the Hanks, the shield, caudal end of the 

 body, 11)0 s(dc, and foot-fringe golden-yellow. Possibly this foini is really referable 

 to Ariim intermedin.^. 



ENGLAND. 



Mid W. York— I'ljol Bridge, April IS87 ! W. K. Skipwitli. 



