36 LIMACIDiE. 



It inhabits cellars and gardens in moist situations, 

 in the cities. It is considered noxious to vegetation. It 

 feeds upon the leaves of plants in kitchen gardens, and 

 upon the remains of the cooked vegetables, and bread, 

 thrown out from houses. Its most common habitat is 

 in cellars, where it makes its presence most disagreeable 

 by attacking articles of food, and especially by msinuat- 

 ing itself into vessels containing meal and flour. It is 

 common, but not so numerous as Limax agrestis. The 

 young suspend themselves by a thread of mucus. 



This species is of foreign origin, but the period of its 

 inti-oduction is not known. It was noticed by Mr. Say, 

 more than twenty years since. It is probable that it 

 inhabits all the cities of the sea-coast, and their vicinage, 

 but it has not been noticed in the interior, except at the 

 University of Virginia, at Charlottesville. 



2. LIMAX AGRESTIS, MtJLLER. 



Plate LXTV. Figure 2. 



L. corpore albo, griseo, cinereo, rufescente aut nigres- 

 cente, unicolore aut maculate, sub-cylindraceo, glandulis 

 elongatis et sulcis fuscis reticulatis instructo ; clypeo ante- 

 riori, ovali, gibboso, lineis concentricis striate ; carina brevi ; 

 apertura laterali postica. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Limax agreatis, Muller, Ioc. cit. 2d part, p. 8, No. 204. 



Iji^sSLVS, Syst. Nat. 2d edit. p. 10S2. 



Dkapaknaud, Ioc. cit. p. 126, pi. 9, fig. 9. 



Febussac, Hist. p. 73, pi. 5, fig. 7-10. Sup. 96. 



Lamarck, Ioc. cit. 2d edit. VII. p. 717. 



Boitchard-Chantereaux, Ioc. cit. p. 30. 



Binney, Limacidae, p. 6. 

 Umax funicata, Gould, Report, p. 3. 



