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caying seaweed to be equally palatable. Its slime is 

 abundant ; and the animal^ on being touclied_, yields a 

 fluid like clear water. Professor E. Forbes found it 

 plentifully, creeping on bare stones and rocks, at an 

 elevation of above 1500 feet, near Connor Cliffs, above 

 Dingle, in Kerry. Mr. Lowe observes that it prefers 

 walnut-trees. Mr. Daniel informs me that he has seen 

 this slug in couples during the pairing-season suspended 

 by slimy threads from the branch of a tree. 



6. L. MAx'iMUS^, Linne. 



L. )7uiximus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 108. L. cinereus, F. & H. iv. 

 p. 15, pi. D.D.D. f. 1. 



Body rather slender, yellowish-grey, but varying m intensity 

 of colour and being sometimes quite black, with occasionally 

 streaks or spots of black or white, covered with numerous and 

 elongated tubercles, so as to appear strongly wrinkled : shield 

 oblong, very tumid, somewhat contracted or even pointed 

 behind, distinctly and regularly striate : tentacles (especially 

 the upper pair) long in comparison with those of other species, 

 yeUowish-brown : hack rounded, except close to the tail, where 

 there is a shght keel : foot edged with white : slime whitish. 

 L. 4-5. B. 0-75. 



Shell squarish -oblong, rather convex above and nearly flat 

 beneath, solid, irregularly crystalHne, rather glossy and na- 

 creous, with distinct lines of growth, obliquely strijite as in 

 the two last species : boss very small, placed near one end : mar- 

 gin thin and membranous. L. 0-5. B. 0-325. 



Habitat : Woods, gardens, hedges, under old logs of 

 wood, and nearly everywhere in town and country. Its 

 foreign range extends from Finland to Corsica and 

 Algeria, and (according to Mr. Lowe) Madeira. 



This is the largest species of Limax, and sometimes 

 exceeds six inches in length. It is inactive in its habits^ 

 not very prolific, and exudes a thick and glutinous slime, 



* Largest. 



