limits. It is a favourite morsel with the Hedgehog, and furnishes food also to the Blindworm (Anguis fragilis).
Limax maximus. The Great Slug.—Generally distributed, frequenting outhouses and cellars in damp situations. It has been known to enter larders and feed on raw meat.[1] In woods also it is not uncommon, and is fond of creeping on the trunks of trees on wet nights, and on sugar, when placed there to attract Lepidoptera.—B.
It is somewhat curious that none of the Sussex conchologists have included in their lists the Shell Slug, Testacella haliotidea, which is apparently not found on the chalk soil or sand, although it is not very uncommon on the London clay.
Fam Helicidæ.
Succinea putris. The Amber Snail—so called from the colour of the shell—is to a great extent amphibious. It is not uncommon in ditches overgrown with herbage, and appears especially partial to the stems of Œnanthe crocata.—B.
Succinea elegans. The Slender Amber Snail.—In similar situations, but rarer. Taken at Henfield, and dead specimens found amongst the rejectamenta of the floods in the level between Henfield and Steyning.—B. Included, under the name Succinea Pfeifferi, in a list of Mollusca found in the neighbourhood of Brighton (M), but not at Eastbourne (G). By some conchologists the two species have been considered to be mere varieties of the same species, great variability of form being observable in all the species of the genus Succinea; but elegans differs from putris in the darker colour of its body, and the more slender shape of the shell, as well as in its longer and more pointed spire. In 'The Zoologist' for 1862 (pp. 8138 and 8171), Capt. Bruce Hutton has recorded some interesting observations on S. elegans, which lead him to consider it a distinct species. He found it in some abundance on leaves of the yellow iris.
Vitrina pellucida. The Transparent Glass Shell.—Abundant on the clay on and under dead sticks and leaves in hedgebottoms and woods. Less common on the sand. It appears very indifferent to cold, often crawling about in the severest frost.—B. Specimens have been obtained at Ratham, near Chichester (J),
- ↑ See 'The Zoologist,' 1861, p. 7819.
