LIMAX. 205 



more granuliform, and differing in color which is ash-black, 

 lighter on the shield, the sole brownish. Length, 1-5 inches. 



Kulais, Mingrelia. 



Section IBYCUS, Heynemann, 1862. 

 L. FISSIDENS, Heynemann. PI. 54, fig. 76. 



Animal (in alcohol) not described, except that the shield 

 covers the anterior half of the body, the pulmonary orifice 

 appearing to be anterior. The shell was broken, but was horny- 

 leathery in texture, transparent, amber-colored, shining, with 

 growth-lines. 



Sikkim, Himalayas; alt. 5600 feet. 



Section AGRIOLIMAX, Malm, 1870. 



L. AGRESTIS, Linn. PL 50, figs. 90-94 ; PL 51, figs. 95-98. 



Rugose, rugae rounded ; elongate ; tail narrow, shortly cari- 

 nated ; shield large, posteriorly rounded, subangulated, concentri- 

 cally rugose; pulmonary orifice posterior, rounded, light mar- 

 gined ; neck longitudinally bisulcate, with oblique lateral grooves, 

 tentacles elongated, subcylindrical, with small ocular bulbs ; 

 color whitish, gray, yellowish brown or reddish brown, unicolored 

 or sparsely or closely maculated with brown, neck and head 

 reddish brown or blackish; sole pallid, grayish diaphanous in 

 the middle ; mucus milky. Length, 1-2-3 inches. 



Europe, Iceland, Azores, Madeira, Algiers, Caucasus, 



Eastern United States, ? Japan, New Zealand. 



"This slug," writes Jeffreys, is a. great pest in the kitchen- 

 garden, and does not even spare succulent leaves and roots of 

 flower-plants. Mr. Whiteaves says that it also feeds on earth- 

 worms. Its slime is abundant and viscous, feeling like a lump 

 of sticky fat. Miiller states that when it is touched it draws in 

 its horns and remains all day as if it were dead, but in the 

 evening it recovers itself. It is extremely prolific, producing 

 several families, averaging fifty each, in the course of the 

 breeding-season, viz., from April to November. According to 

 Leuch, a German naturalist, a pair of these slugs have been 

 known to lay 776 eggs. These eggs have retained their vitality 

 and the young have been developed from them after having been 

 dried eight times successively in a furnace. It has the same 



