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Vil. - Obfervation on the gael peli By Fobn Latham, M. D. 
Hing Laie Ss and L. S. Romfey. 
old, abd, 3 lod £ f Read Februaly 7 1797. 
HE Sab tults ats ite ‘Spinning, Lima feen and well defcribed by 
~ 1 MraHoy, inothe Firft, Volume. of. the. Tranfations of the; 
+h Ta Society, ‘and obferved fome years prior thereto, by Dr. Shaw, 
could not fail, torftrike the Notice. of. every. Naturalitt as a circum- 
ftance unlooked | for) in this tribe of beings. Amongft others mny, 
attentive: and. cobfervin 5 friend, and Fellow of this Society, Co- 
lonéb Montagu, has been, fortunate in. refiding 1 this fummer at Pen. 
rymin. Cornwall, where. this Limax. or flug was in confiderable plen- 
ty, by whicli means he has been, enabled, to draw. up notes of “many 
obfetvations thereon,, which, he has. communicated to me in various: 
: letters forithe purpofe.of laying them before the Society. 
,, The refult of the» Colonelis. obferyations, omitting what ‘Me. 4 
Hoy. has beforedaid op, the, fubject,, 4 is. nearly as follows :—The 
fpecimens which he met with, were in, general from, three-fourths. 
of /anl-inch: tosanyinch, in length, | .the,.general colour a, Brey- 
ifh white, landthe thield,.of a yellowifh or buff-colour, as. may | be 
feenin the coloured. drawing itherapfei,,Ta,, 8. fig. 1. fhews. the by 
Jide tha ftaterd£ xepofe oiniai leaf 3 fig. 2. that of ‘progteffive Motion, 
on the-ground3i7igy 3 awview,of,the upper furface,whilft fufpended 
byits thread from a bran¢hisand jig. 4. Baietean from beneath, , 
That it isia! ‘cufton not unufual, for ,this! SBehiES: of Limax to, pafs , 
ware I : from 
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