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caying seaweed to be equally palatable. Its slime is 

 abundant ; and the animal, on being touched, 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'LMUS*, Linne*. 



L. maxirmis, 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 in in- 

 tensity 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, yellowish-brown : back rounded, ex- 

 cept close to the tail, where there is a slight 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 crystalline, rather glossy and 

 nacreous, with distinct lines of growth, obliquely striate as 

 in the two last species : boss very small, placed near one 

 end : margin 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. 



