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5 LIMAX. 



Body oblong, creeping, with a flefliy kind of fliield 

 above, and a longitudinal flat diflc beneath: aperture 

 placed on the right fide within the fliield : feelers four, 

 fituatcd above the mouth, with an eye at the tip of each 

 of the larger ones. 



Thefe are what have been generally confidered as the 

 generic charafters of the Liniax, Slug, or Snail, and 

 feem to correfpond with the formation of thofe fpecies 

 which are found in a mollufca ftate ; but with refpefl to 

 the various animals which have been confidered as be- 

 longing to this genus, for the mofl part inhabiting the 

 turbinated univalve fliells, we fear too much latitude is 

 required to bring the whole, or even the greater part of 

 them, into the Limax genus. It is well known that moft, 

 if not all, frefli-water, as well as moft marine univalve 

 fhells, are inhabited by an animal polfefled of only two 

 feelers, or tentacula, deflitute of eyes at their tips, but 

 placed at their bafe, varying in fituation in different fub- 

 jefts : in fome alfo the tentacula are long, and fetaceous, 

 in others fhort, broad and flat.* It is alfo a queftion 

 whether the aperture on the right fide would take in 

 thofe animals which ha\'T^ every other charafter of the 

 true Limax, found to inhabit the heteroftrophe, or re- 

 verfed fliells,+ all of which have the foramen, or aper- 

 ture on the left fide. 



The 



* From the number and formation of the tentacula ; and the relative fituatior, 

 of the eyes, Mui.ler has formed many new genera oMXciihcLinuaan Limax, 



t For a definition of this appellation, fee page 351. 



