12 LIMACID^. 



G, MACULosus, Allmaii. 



Plate V. F. F. fig. 5. 

 Allman, on Animals, Nat. Hist. vol. -xvii. p. ii)?, pi. 9. 



This most remarkable and most interesting of our native 

 slugs, was discovered by an active and indefatigable 

 Irish naturalist, Mr. William Andrews, of Dublin, during 

 the autumn of 1842. He found it quiescently stretched 

 on rocks around Lough Carogh, to the south of Castle- 

 main Bay in the county of Kerry in Ireland. To quote 

 the words of Professor Allman, to whom it was com- 

 municated for examination and description by its dis- 

 coverer, " it is an exceedingly beautiful animal, measur- 

 ing, when creeping about, two inches in length ; the 

 colour of the shield and upper part of the body is black, 

 elegantly spotted with yellow ; the under surface of the 

 foot light yellow, and divided into three nearly equal 

 bands ; the edge of the foot is brown, with transverse 

 sulci." A white spotted variety also occurs. It can 

 elongate itself, so as to assume the appearance of a 

 worm, and thus enter exceedingly small apertures. It 

 is to be hoped that this curious creature may yet be 

 found in other localities. If we may venture a surmise, 

 we expect that it will prove hereafter to be an Asturian 

 as well as Irish slug. 



LIMAX, LiNN^os. 



Animal elongated or oblong, semicylindrical, rounded, 

 or carinated posteriorly, anteriorly furnished with an 

 oblong disk, in which is imbedded an unguiform shell. 

 Head with four ten taenia, the two upper ones furnished 

 with eyes; mouth, with a trilobed corneous tooth. No 



