276 APPENDIX — AGRIOLIMAX AGRBSTIS. 



Queen's Co. — Sub-var. carpatica, Stradbally, Sept. 1904 ! A. 6. Stuart. 



King's Co. — Tlie gardens, Charleville Forest, Tullamore, Sep. 1904 ! R. McKenna. 



Roscommon — Loughglynn, Castlerea, Oct. 1904 ! Hugh Kennedy. 



Galway E.— Clonbrock, Sept. 1904 ! Hon. R. E. Dillon. 



Clare — Scariff, Sept. 1904 : N. V. Hil)bert. Dronioland Castle gardens near 

 Newinarket-on-Fergus, Sept. 1904 ! John Carter. 



Tipperary N. — Road by Lough Derg nr. Derry Castle, Sep. 1904 ! (J. J. Fogerty. 



Cork S.— Skibbereeii, Sept. 1904 ! Jolin J. Wolfe. 



Kerry — Valentia Island, Sept. 1904 ! Miss M. J. Delap. With Geomalacus 

 macidosius, on tree trunks, north of Lough Caragh, June 1904 ! W. West. 



Var. heynemanni Bielz. 



IRELAND. 



Derry — Sub-var. tigrina, Straidarran, July 1904 ! P. H. (Jrierson. 



Tyrone — Sub-var. maculata, Baronscourt gardens, Sept. 1904 ! R. Bell. 



Kilkenny — Sub-var. maculata, Piltown, Sept. 1904 ! Earl of Bessborough. 



Queen's Co. — Sub-var. maculata, Stradbally, Sept. 1904 ! A. G. Stuart. 



Clare — Sub-var. maculata, Lahinch, 1900, P. H. Grierson ; and in gardens of 

 Droraoland Castle, Sept. 1904 ! J. Carter. 



Tipperary S. — Sub-var. maculata, St. Thomas's Bridge and Glenabbey ; also 

 sub-var. submaculata, Oaklands near Clonmel, Rev. A. H. Delap. 



Waterford — Sub-var. maculata, Morgan's Glen, Waterford, Rev. A. H. Delap. 



Var. rupicola Less. & Poll. 

 The few additional localities adduced for this form confirm it as a northern and 

 western race, with a preference for places of some altitude. 



SCOTLAND. 

 Aberdeen S. — Sub-v. alpestris, garden, Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Oct. 1904 ! G. Sim. 

 Hebrides — Var. nigra, at back of Connacher, and at mouth of Avon Mhor, on 

 the Island of Hirta, of the St. Kilda group, July 1905 ! J. Waterston. 

 Shetlands— Sub-var. alpestris, Mossbank, Sept. 1904 ! T. Bowie. 



IRELAND. 

 Monaghan — Sub-var. alpestris, Drumreaske, Sep. 1904 ! W. F. de Vi.'^mes Kane. 

 Louth — Sub-var. alpestris, east of Drogheda, Oct. 1904 ! P. H. Grierson. 

 Waterford — Sub-var. rupicola occurs only on the very summit of tlie reeks ; the 

 type is found a few hundred feet lower down the mountain. Rev. A. H. Delap. 



Agriolimax agrestis (L.). 



Food and Habits. — The omuivorous appetite of this species is con- 

 firmed by the observation of Recluz, who has recorded it on the poisonous 

 Boletus luridus about Paris, while Mr. E. W. Swanton observed in 1904 

 that this species in company with Mllax sowerbii and Arioii kortensis quite 

 ruined the potato crop at Stour Provost, in Dorset, by burrowing within 

 and devouring tlie tubers. 



In New Zealand, Australia, and Cape Colony, according to the experience 

 of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, Agriolimax agrestis does not appear to have 

 the characteristic milky-slime or very little of it, as the mucus seems clear 

 and transparent until after considerable irritation. 



Geological History. — The record by Mansel-Pleydell of this species 

 as a Pliocene fossil in Dorset is incorrect, the deposit at Blashenwell being 

 according to Mr. Kennard, only of Holocene age. 



PiiEisTOCENE. — Von Ihering records ^1. agrestis from the Pleistocene 

 tufa in French Switzerland. 



In Germany Herr Clessin records it fossilized from the alluvial deposits 

 at PiirklK'ut, the Loess at Kumpsfmiihl, and the Pleistocene tufaceous 

 deposits about Regensburg. 



Holocene. — Prom quarry-tip, Oleeve Hill, Gloucestershire ; and also 

 from a section in Tooley street, Middlese.x. 



