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“The eggs are globular, transparent, over two hundred in 
number, laid in a compact mass.’’* 
Distribution: Europe, Asia Minor, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia, 
Azores, Madeira, New Zealand and United States. (Intro- 
duced.) 
Habitat: Found principally in greenhouses under boards : 
and along the sides of the drains. In Rochester, N. Y., the 
species is found plentifully under board sidewalks and in cel- 
lars, in any part of the city. In Europe it is solitary in habit 
and is found chiefly in the woods, under fallen trees and stones 
and near the seashore.t 
Remarks: The present species is the largest of the genus 
and isa voraciouseater. Its food consists principally of fungi, 
or, if living in acellar, of meat and vegetables. It is said to 
rarely eat green plants (vide Scharff). Instances are known 
of its committing cannibalism, especially when very hungry and 
when several specimens are together. The writer has several 
times noted a peculiarity in the mucus of this slug, viz., that 
it is sticky and will entangle the legs of flies or other insects 
which alight upon the animal, and will act in the same manner 
as fly-paper. Several flies have been noted in this predicament. 
This species, as well as others of the genus, is principally noc- 
turnal inhabit. Like Vitvea draparnaldi it has been introduced 
from Europe. It has not been detected, as yet, outside of the 
greenhouses, where, however, it may be found in considerable 
numbers. 
76. Limax flavus Linné, pl. xxviii, fig. 27. 
Limax flavus LINNE, Syst. Nat., ed. X, Vol. I, p. 652, 1758. (non Miiller, 
1774. 
Limax sa DRAPARNAUD, Tab. Moll., p. 108 (1801). 
Shell: Rudimentary, oblong-oval, thin, concave below, 
convex above; upper surface covered with a delicate periostra- 
cum. The plate increases in thickness with age. 
Animal: Brownish or yellowish-brown in color, orna- 
mented by numerous oval or oblong spots without color; 
mantle rather large, oval, rounded before and behind, spotted 
with large rounded blotches, and marked with fine, concen- 
trical strie; eye-peduncles long, slender, tapering, blue in 
‘color and semi-transparent; head and neck of same color as 
eye-peduncles; tentacles short, white; general form of body 
* Binney, Man. Amer. Land Shells, p. 451. 
+ Scharff, The Slugs of Ireland, Sci. Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., Vol. 1V, Series II, No. 10, 1891. 
