86 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
red specimens have been met with, though rarely.—B. Harting, 
near Petersfield—W. Brighton.—M. Common in the vicinity of 
Lewes.—U. “By many persons of easy belief,” says Mr. Weaver,* 
“this slug is thought to be endowed with a valuable property, in 
which may be found a slight compensation for its depredations. 
In the destruction of warts on the human skin, it has the credit 
locally of having been eminently successful long before the appli- 
cation of acetic acid to this purpose. The living slug, after having 
been carefully rubbed over the parts affected, is to be securely 
impaled on a thorn in some secluded place, and there left to die. 
If, from the commencement of the experiment, the warts do not 
gradually become fine by degrees and beautifully less, until they 
finally disappear, the operator has failed in one or other of the 
two conditions indispensable to success—implicit faith or strict 
secresy !” 
Arion hortensis. The Garden Slug.— Common everywhere. 
The eggs are phosphorescent for about a fortnight after they have 
been deposited, and may be seen in the evening on moist hedge- 
banks, giving out a pale light. 
Limax marginatus. Sowerby’s Slug.—Common in the Weald, 
and found also on the South Downs. Not uncommon about Hen- 
field, and at Hassock’s Gate, near Hurstpierpoint.—B. It may be 
looked for under stones, among dead leaves, and at the foot of old 
walls. It is of inactive habits, and secretes a thick slime. The 
Abbé Stabile has observed that it is much preyed upon by large 
carnivorous beetles, and Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys adds+ that in its turn 
it preys upon live worms and smaller slugs. 
Limaz flavus. The Yellow Slug.—Found occasionally at Chi- 
chester, Cowfold and Henfield (B); at Harting (W and H); at 
Brighton (M); and near Hailsham (H). Specimens have also 
been met with by the side of a ditch near the Priory, Lewes.—U. 
To be looked for in damp places, as cellars and drains, and under 
stones in moist situations and about decaying stumps in the 
woods. 
Limax agrestis. The Field Slug.—Abundant everywhere; the 
pest of the farmer as well as of the gardener. It may be met with 
in the cornfields in such abundance that even the willing Rooks 
and Pheasants find it no easy task to keep its numbers within safe 
* «History of Harting,’ p. 312. 
+ ‘British Conchology,’ vol. i., p. 132. 
