à fpiming Limax. «885 
Perhaps the fhade of the fir-trees, and the wet foggy weather 
when I obferved it, may have rendered the Limax flavus of a paler 
colour; therefore I cannot pretend abfolutely to introduce this, as a 
“new fpecies, to the acquaintance of the Linnean Society. But if 
the foregoing account exhibits a new inftinét, or fomething that 
has not been heretofore obferved in the animal ceconomy, it may- 
perhaps not be below the notice of a Society inftituted for promot- 
ing the knowledge of natural hiftory. 
ADDITIONAL NOTE, 
By Dr. Shaw. 
IT is confiderably more than ten years fince I had an opportu- 
nity of obferving the phænomenon fo accurately defcribed by Mr. 
Hoy. Having never either before or fince obferved a fimilar ap- 
pearance, I was inclined to confider it as a circumftance merely ac- 
cidental; but as it is thus confirmed by Mr. Hoy, there feems no 
reafon to doubt that the animals of the genus Limax have a power 
of occafionally managing their glutinous excretion in fuch a manner 
as to ferve the purpofe of a thread in a direct defcent. 
The copy of my own Memorandum on this fubje& is as follows: 
September 27, 1776. 
* Sitting in an arbour about eight feet high, I was amufed with 
a very uncommon fpeétacle, which I at firft took for a Caterpillar 
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