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Show 1880.] LAND-SHELLS OF MENTON. 103 LIMAX, sp. ? Mr. Coombe Williams found a single specimen of a small black Limax on the Berceau at a great elevation. LIMAX (KRYNICKILLUS) NICIENSIS, Bourg. Creamy yellow, mottled with pale brown (not very closely) ; sole of foot and sides whitish ; head and neck concolor, fulvous yellow; orifice posterior; crest rather distinct, also posterior rugosities and circular striation of buckler, mucous white. Not uncommon near the village of Grimaldi. Mr. Williams also found it at 3000 feet on the Berceau Mountain. LIMAX (KRYNICKILLUS) MENTONICUS, n. sp. Sole of foot light brown; orifice posterior; head and tentacles dull claret-colour, very sparsely speckled with black; buckler unusually long, rich brown, closely and minutely speckled with black, circular striation apparently running in two contrary directions ; posteriorly nearly smooth ; extreme caudal end acutely pointed, of a brighter (speckled) brown colour. Common near Menton. This Slug is very active. MILAX GAGATES, Drap. A common Menton Slug. MlLAX CARINATA (?), RisSO. A rather uncommon species, from the Submaritime zone. MlLAX, Sp. W e found, subfossil, numerous specimens of various species of this genus in deposits. MILAX, n. sp. ? Concolor, fulvous-yellow, minutely speckled with grey; sole of foot faint yellowish, undivided ; tentacles inky black ; buckler bilobed posteriorly ; crest distinct; orifice sliglitly posterior; line of "limacelle" rather indistinct. Village of Grimaldi. ZONITES ALGIRUS, Linnaeus. Rather local near Menton; only found at a level of 2000 feet or so, especially in the neighbourhood of the higher-level road to Nice, round the village of Roquebrune &c. I also found a single perfect specimen on the side of the road round Cape St. Martin, buried a few feet below the surface ; I imagine it had been washed down from the mountains behind. I saw no trace of this species subfossil, not even in the upper stratum of Cape Mortela, where I should have expected to find it. The Menton form is more distinctly subangulate at the periphery than usual. |