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VII. Obfervations on the Spinning Limax. By John Latham, M. D. 



F.R. S. and L. S. Romfey* ' ' 



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Read February 7, 1797. 



^HE account of the Spinning Limax ken and well defcribed by 

 Mr. Hoy, in the Firft Volume of the Tranfa&ions of the 

 Unman Society, and obferved fome years prior thereto by Dr. Shaw,, 

 could not fail to flrike the notice of every Naturalift as a circum- 

 ftance unlocked for in this tribe of beings. Amongft others my 

 attentive and obferving friend, and Fellow of this Society, Co- 

 lonel Montagu, has been fortunate in refiding this fummer at Pen- 

 ryn in Cornwall, where this Limax or Jug was in confiderable plen- 

 ty by which means he has been enabled to draw up notes of many 

 obfervations thereon, which he has communicated to me in various 

 letters for the purpofe of laying them before the Society. 



The refult of the Colonel's obfervations, omitting what Mr. 

 Hoy has before faid on the fubjeA, is nearly as follows:— The 

 fpecimens which he met with were in general from three-fourths 

 of an inch to an inch in- length, the general colour a grey- 

 iih white and the fhield of a yellowifh or buff-colour, as may be 

 feen in the coloured drawing thereof. Tab. 8. fig. I. (hews the 

 Jlug in a ftate of repoie on a leaf : fig. 2. that of progreffive motion 



on the ground : fig. 3- a view ° f the u PP er furfaC6 wh r llft { ^ nd f 

 by its thread from a branch : and fig. 4. the lame feen trom beneath 

 That it is a-cuftom not unufual for this fpecies of Limax to pafs 



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