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cause in them there is shade, moisture, an abun- 

 dance of food and opportunity to conceal them- 

 selves. These are lacking in the pine woods, and 

 even if conditions were favorable the frequent for- 

 est fires would destroy them. I have seen Liguus 

 crawling through the pine lands on several occa- 

 sions during wet weather and at a considerable 

 distance from any hammock. I have also seen 

 specimens crawling directly away from my own 

 little hammock out into the pine forest! Once 

 while raining heavily I found a Liguus crawling 

 on the ground among the pine trees more than a 

 hundred feet from a hammock. I marked the 

 spot and the next day, which was fair, it had 

 crawled on several feet, climbed a weed and was 

 apparently inactive. Again I marked its location 

 and the following day, which was rainy, I found it 

 fully twenty-five feet farther on and away from 

 the hammock. At another time I found a Liguus 

 beside an abandoned road in the pine woods and 

 marked its position. In half an hour it had crossed 

 the road, a distance of eight feet, which is not bad 

 going for a snail. In the course of a rainy season 

 then a Liguus could cover the distance between 

 two quite widely separate hammocks. Of course 



