Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 38. (Budapest 1945)
Wagner, J.: New systematical researches on carnivorous slugs
54 about the middle. On the strong and thickly built penis several well defined parts can be distinguished. The shell is, for the greatest part, similar to the species of the subgenus Llbania. It is elongated, oval, eggshaped or elliptic, at the top evenly arched, fairly solidly built, reddish-yellow or brown, bright, transparent, sometimes softly, very finely, sometimes strongly or markedly striped. The number of the whorls is 2, one and a half of them increase slowly the last half rather suddenly, the suture is definitely deepened. Its aperture is quite skew and very wide. The embryonal shell is round, bright, milk-coloured. Distribution: the province of Szuchum on the west part of the Caucasus. According to the results of my investigations the subgenus Szuchumiella has three species, i. e., the Daudebardia (Szuchumiella ) Jetschini A. J. Wagner, the Daudebardia (Szuchumiella ) Kalischewslcii S i m r o t h, and the Daudebardia (Szuchumiella) Simrothi n. sp. The first was called Jetschini and was described by A. J. Wagner in 1895, afte^ a specimen originating from Psirsk (north from Szuchum Kale). The type I examined is in the possession of the Senckenberg-Museum of Frankfurt am Main for the present. In one of his late~ works Wagner remarks that the Daudebardia Jetschini was only classified among the Libanias on account of the shape of its shell (5, p. 15), the anatomic peculiarities of the typical representative of the Libinia group i. e. of the Daudebardia (Libanki ) Saulcyi are so very different from those of the other species, that without precise anatomic examinations other forms cannot be ranged there. Wagner was evidently unaware of the facts that S i m r o t h had studied the Daudebardia Jetschini anatomically already in 1912 (3, p. 87—88, Taf. X, Fig. 46 B.) and had fourd entirely different characteristics in the structure of the reproductive organs of this sprcies from what Wagner discovered on the reproductive organs of the Daudebardia Saulcyi which is the typical representative of the subgenus Libania (5, p. 14— 15, Taf. 3, Fig. 19—20). We have already referred to these peculiarities when characterising the subgenus Szuchumiella. They are equally typical of the three species which belong here, and of which two have only been described so far (Daudebardia Jetschini and D. Kalischewskii), the third was not given a name by Simroth though he precisely knew and delineated its anatomic characteristics (2, p. 551—552, Taf. VIII. Fig. 51—54, and 3, p. 87—88, Taf. X, Fig. 46 C). In honour of Simroth I call this third species of the subgenus Szuchumiella : Szuchumiella Simrothi and give its description in the following:
