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are of great length, 'while the lower ones are short. 

 The mucus is colourless. 



The shell, or calcareous shield, is oblong and fragile j 

 the colour white, slightly stained with pink ; and the 

 size about six lines long, and from two and a half to 

 three lines broad. 



The eggs are cream-coloured, slightly ovate, and 

 about two lines in length. They are deposited during 

 the spring months, under stones, at the roots of grass, 

 and at the trunks of trees, being attached together in 



When the animal crawls, which it does slowly, it 

 leaves a slime upon whatever it passes over. 



Reaumur found this, and others of the Liraax tribe, 

 had insects on their bodies, which Gmelio Jias called 

 A cams Limacum. 



This species is best known to those unacquainted 

 with conchology as the black slug. 



M. Bouchard Chatereaux says they lay from fifty to 

 sixty eggs. 



The localities in this neighbourhood are Highfield 

 House, Branicote, Beeston, Chilwell, Savvley, Thrump- 

 ton, Nottingham, &c. 



It is generally dispersed throughout England ; found 

 in Scotland (Macgillivray), Ireland (Clarke), Isle of 

 Man (Forbes), Germany (Pfeiffer), Sweden (Nilson), 

 and France (Fe'-ussac). 



The following species have not as yet [been found 

 here : — 



Limax Brunneus. (Draparnaud). 



Limax gagates. (Draparnaud). 



Limax tenellus. (Muller). 



Limax Sowerbii. (Ferussac). 



Of these Limax Brunneus'^is found in the north of 

 England;^ Limax tenellus (which is very rare) in Nor- 



