150 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SLUG 



receptacles on separate plants on shorter peduncles, orbicular, 4- 

 lobed : lob. s crenate ; anthers in 8 radiating lines. 



Syn. Hep. 525. M. polymorpha, Fl .Antarct, 168 and 44G— 

 not of Linneus. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SLUG : 

 With Notes ox bTHER Terrestrial Mollubca' 



By C. Hedley. 



Limax queenslandicus, np. imv. Animal .'30 millimetres in 

 length, slender, subcylindrical, rounded in front, slightly diminish- 

 ing behind and tapering suddenly to an acute point. l>ack 

 keeled, tuberculated .by impressed reticulating lines, which flow 

 from the shield obscurely backwards and downwards till they reach 

 the margin of the foot. Colour generally uniform bronze, but 

 occasionally faintly spotted with small patches of darker hue. 

 Shield large, occupying a third of the dorsal area, rounded before 

 and behind, the front third free, anteriorly with concentric stria\ 

 posteriorly with longitudinal grooves continuous * with the im- 

 pressed lines of the back. Pulmonary orifice situated, at the 

 posterior fourth of the shield's length. The neck, which is lighter 

 in colour than the rest of the body, relatively smooth, with a 

 raised median longitudinal line extending from the shield to 

 between the tentacles ; about six small furrows run diagonally 

 downwards an 1 forwards on each side from the median line. 

 Tentacles black, the lower ones short, the upper moderately long, 

 cylindrical, finely tuberculated. Sole of foot whitish. Mucus 

 abundant, colourle^. Jaw smooth, arcuated, lateral horns project- 

 ing beyond the median limb of the inferior edge. Median tooth of 

 radula with a central lanciform cusp between two minute concavo- 

 convex inwardly directed marginal cusps. In the laterals the 

 median lanciform cusp enlarges, the marginal cusp on the rhachid- 



