LIMAX. 



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The shell is slight, and somewhat squarely ovate, inclining to the 

 more developed form of that of L. cinereus, the lines of growth 

 being added concentrically from an umbonal nucleus. 



8. Limax cinereus. Ash Limax. 



Animal ; body elongated, rounded on the back, tapering and keeled 

 towards the tail, yellow-ash, conspicuously streaked and leo- 

 pard-spotted with black, head pinkish-grey mottled, tentacles 

 yellowish-grey, long, slender ; shield ob- 

 long, rounded in front, inclined to trian- 

 gular behind ; respiratory orifice at the 

 posterior end of right margin, striated con- 

 centrically from an umbonal nucleus, outer 

 edge membranaceous. 



Shell ; oblong-square, large, depressly concave. 



Limax cinereus, Lister (1674.), Phil. Trans, vol. ix. p. 96. Hist. Anim. 



Angl. p. 131. pi. 2. f. 17. 

 Limax maximus, Linnaeus (1758), Syst. Nat. p. 108. 



