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Var. pallescens, Moq. — Corporation Gardens, Nottingham, Dodd. 

 Avian hovtensis, Fer. — Far too common. 

 Var. subfusca, Pfr. — Occurs with the type. 

 Var. nigra j Moq. — Not rare around Tuxford. 



Avion intermedins, Norm. {—A. minimus, Simroth, =A. flavus, Jeff.) 

 Occurs in several localities among dead leaves in woods. 



Avion circumscviptus, Johnst. (=A. fasciatus, Nils. =A. bouvguinati, 

 Mab.) Plentiful in gardens and fields in Tuxford and neighbourhood. 



Avion celticus, Poll. Perhaps a variety of A. hovtensis. A slug 

 which I sent to Mr. Collinge, of Birmingham, last year was identified 

 by him as belonging to this form. This, he tells me, was the second 

 record for Great Britain. 



Avion lusitanicus, Mabille. — Perhaps a variety of A. empivicovum. A 

 slug sent by me, from Ossington, to Mr. Collinge was considered by 

 him as probably belonging to this form, future dissection will, perhaps, 

 determine this point. 



Family LIMACID^E. 



Genus Amalia, Moq. 



Amalia gagates, Drap.— Occurs in gardens at Tuxford. Examples 

 which I sent some years ago to Mr. Taylor, of Leeds, were said by 

 him to be the first recorded from a British inland county. All the 

 examples known belong to the var. plumbea, Moq. 

 Genus Limax, L. 



Limax maximus, L. — Generally distributed and common. 



Var. eellavia, D'Arg. — I have this form in my garden. 



Var. fasciata, Moq. — Corporation Gardens, Nottingham, Dodd. 



Var. cinevea, Moq. — Tuxford. 



Var. nmllevi, Moq. — Mapperly, Musson. 



Var. . — A few days ago an example was caught in my yard 



which I can refer to no variety known to me, unfortunately, having 

 been put aside for more minute examination, it has disappeared. The 

 animal seemed uniformly black at a little distance, on a closer view it 

 was found to be covered with black longitudinal lines, extending the 

 whole length, and though not broad, so closely approximate as scarcely 

 to show the ground colour at all, at the extremity quite coalescent. 

 Foot white. There is, I see, a var. atev, Raz., but I have not seen it 

 described. 



Sub-Genus Lehmannia, Heyn. 



Lehmannia vaviegata, Drap. (=Limax flavus, Aucc.) — Common. 



Var. cohbvina, Pini. — I once took an example of this beautiful 

 variety in the cellar of my house. 



