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mantle, which he thought might the better enable the 

 animal to resist the heat of warm climates ; it must, 

 however, in this genus at least, be intended for some 

 other purpose, for it is a northern rather than a southern 

 genus, inhabiting the most northern parts of the United 

 States, where the winters are long and severe. It is 

 also, by its habits, very much removed from the influence 

 of heat. An opinion the reverse of that of M. Ferussac, 

 namely, that it is an additional protection from cold, 

 seems to be more probable. 



1. TEBENNOPHORUS CAROLJNIENSIS, BOSC. 



PLATE LXIII. FIGURES 1, 2. 



T. corpore albido, fusco irrorato, fasciis tribus male- 

 circumscriptis longitudinalibus, et punctis nigris sparsis, 

 ornato, clypeo lato et elongate dorsum totum vestiente, 

 glandulis undulatis, confertis, instructo ; apertura communi 

 antica. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



M 



Limax Caroliniensis, Bosc, loc. cit. p. 80. 



FKRUSSAC, Hist. p. 77, pi. 6, fig. 3. 



DESHAYES, in Lamarck, 2d edit. VI. p. 719. 

 Limax Carolinianus, DE ROISSY, loc. cit. V. p. 183. 

 Limax togata, GOULD, Inverteb. of Mass. p. 3. 

 Philomycus Caroliniensis, FERUSSAC, Tab. Syst. p. 15. 

 Tebennophorus Caroliniensis, BINNEY, Limacidae, p. 11. 



ADAMS, Shells of Vermont, p. 13. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Color of upper surface whitish, or yellowish white, 

 variegated with clouds and spots of brownish and black- 

 ish, so arranged as to form three ill-defined longitudinal 



