450 A MANUAL OF AMERICAN LAND SHELLS. 



The penis sac is long, tapering towards the apex, where it receives the 

 vas deferens and retractor muscle. The genital bladder is elongate- 

 oval, on a short duct. In this figure the caudal mucus pore is not shown. 

 The penis on the outside presents a row of minute, round, glandulai 

 bodies. 



LIITIAX. (Soep. 232.) 



JLimax iiiaximus. 



Color light brown or ashen, with alternate longitudinal rows of round 

 spots and uninterrupted stripes of black along the back and sides, re- 

 placed by irregular blotches on the mantle 5 lighter on the sides, dirty 

 white below; eye-peduncles and tentacles short, blackish. Body elon- 

 gated, terminating in a well-marked dorsal carina, covered with coarse, 

 elongated, longitudinal tubercles, constantly exuding mucus from its 

 whole surface, giving a vermicular, glistening efiect. Mantle large, 

 bluntly oval, with tuberosities more delicate and arranged concentric- 

 ally; orifice of respiration very large at its hinder lateral portion. 

 Foot with a narrow locomotive disk. Length about 4 inches. 



Limax maximus, Lin., Syst. Nat. Sci.— Gould and Bixney, luvert. of Mass., ed. 2, 

 408, fig. 669 (1870).— Tryon, Am. Jonm. Conch., iii, 31.j, pi. xvi, 2 (1867).— 

 W. G. BiNNEY, Terr. Moll, v. 



Limax antiquorum, Fi;RUSSAC, Podr., 20; Hist., 68, pi. 4, pi. 8, A, fig. 1. 



A specimen of this common European slug was found in Newport, 

 E. I., in a garden, by Mr. Samuel Powel (1868). It is figured below. 

 This species has also been recently noticed in Philadelphia, and in 

 Brooklyn, K Y. It is an introduced species. Its rich brown or black 



Fig. 495. 



L. maximus. 



stripes, giving it a leopard like api)earance, and its great size, at once 

 distinguish it from any species hitherto known to inhabit Eastern 

 North America. 



Jaw long, narrow, arcuate, strongly striated both vertically and 

 transversely, ends attenuated ; cutting edge with a prominent median 



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