;ii 



Mi'Xi'illi \ril OF HKITISIl LANli ANli FKESllWATKU MiiLLUSCA. 



Limax maximus Linnc. 



lliTS l.iifiK.r liii, r, (IS, iiHiruiiiis. strnillis d- iiincil/i'/ il.s l,ister, Hist. Allilll. Allj;!., 



]i. iL'T. til. himI IIlt. l.'i. 

 I7:i7 Cnrhl,,, iiiiJn il,iitirsti,;i Swaniiii., l!il.l. Nat., i , fU. i:!, ]■. 15.S, tal.. S, tf. 7, S, 9. 

 17411 l.i,,,,,.,' ,;ll„ri,i D'Aip.iiville, Ccnicli., ji. .S.sti, j.l. l'S, f. :U. 

 17.">li I. II J.iniiii'f iriiilni-, s/riir rl Uirliif di: niiir ft (If lifiiii (Jiiet., Mriii. Ac. Sc., p. 147. 



1 7.">s 

 1774 

 17SII 

 l.sl'.l 

 is:i7 

 is:! 7 



1 S4.". 

 isl,-, 

 1S76 

 isiis 



Limax maximus ],., Syst. Nat., l'iI. \.. i., p. O.iii. 



— fiiii'ffiis Mull., \'eriii. Hist., ii.. p. ."), nii. i2n-_'. 



— fiisiiiihis- RazouiiKmskv, Hist, .lorat. vol. i. , ]>. '267. 



— 'iiii/ii/iii,fi,„i Fit., Hist'. Moll., p. lis. pi 4. ff. 1-S. 



— i-i/ffiiii IIS ('anipanvii. Hull. I'liil. l'ei'pia;nan, iii., p. SS. 



— liiiifiiliihis Nuunrl:'\-, Trans. I'liil. S„c:' Leo.ls. i., p, 4G, [il. 1. f. i2. 



— .sii/nifiriis M,, relet, '.Moll. Port., p. :^3. 

 I.niiiif.'ll.i i.iifiiiii j;raril, ( 'oii. Paris, p. Ill), pi. 4, If. I, -2, 0, 10. 



— mil fiiiiii .lens>eaunie, liiill. Soc. Zo-il. i'rain-e, |i. 117. 



Eiilniiiix iiiii.fiiiiHs Malm, Lim. Seaml,, pp. 54-.'i7, pi 4, tl'. lOlUt. 



I u-v^ f _ d^L o-c-^. 



.ISTORY. — Lirna.r mu.rimns (mft.rimttf, great- 

 est : is, as its name implies, one of the lareest 

 species of the uemis, and has been known in 

 i?-' tlii.s counti-y for nmre than two eentnries. 

 Alerret, in IGiiT, first enumerated it as one tif 

 (inr native species, and Lister, in 1G78, figured 

 and ably described it nnder a polynomial ap- 

 pellation, the fir.st part of which — Lirna.r 

 cinertUK — h;is frecpientl}' been disassociated 

 from the rest of tlie epithets and used as a 

 liinomial term. 



Uptm the erroneous assumption that tliis 



s])ecies does not occur in Sweden, Pr. Wester- 



lund concludes tliat LliDn.r ciiu-rfo-niijer is 



" the true Linin.v mii.r/iiiii^ of Linnc, and on this 



ground he ajiplies the term niii.riniii.': to cineirn-niiji r. and uses the word 



riiii-rrn.< to designate the jiresent species. 



Diag-nosis, — Exterx.u.ly, Li/mi.r ni'i.rimiis may be distinguished from 

 L. riiii'rni-iiiijrr by the body lieing tyjiically pale and longitudinally zoned 

 with Mack ; the shield maculate or marbled by dark colouring : the sole 

 unif irmly jiale : the keel conhned to the caudal end of the b "idy, and the 

 rugosities small, fine, and (|nite closely set. 



Interxallv, the shell is distinctly narrower and more elongate : the penis 

 sheath is distally swollen, \-ery rigidly tie.xed, and its retractor said to have 

 a, ditterent jioint of H.x.atiou ; the lingual teeth differ fnuu those of r/^cnv)- 

 iinirr by tlii'ir more aculeate cliaracter, and by their cntting-points more 

 Muirkly ;dterii;itiiig with tliose of the adjacent rows ; and the mandible is 

 lai-gci-, stroimcv, and distinctly rectangular in shape at the ends. 



It is also iijoiv sluggish in habit, has not so widt^ .a r.ange in altitude or 

 sp.acc, and is more closely associated with man and liis habitations than the 

 closely-allied A. ci in rin-iiiiji r , \\\\\\ which it has been so often united. 



from Liiiiii.r iininj'iiiiit iik, lietler kiiou n ,as L iiiUnni in . it is distinguished 

 ''V il- noicli |,,nger ,and m.av slend.a- leiilades, and b\- its spoil. al shield, 

 \\vA\ ^i\ iiiiinfniiitn:: liiang in\',ari,ably longil udiiiall v bandeil ; while iuteru- 

 ally it IS sh.arply iliriia'ciil i.aled liy the presence in iiiiiygiiintiis of a short 

 eoiiical Hagelliiiii to ||i|. |ienis-sheatli and ,a cecal ,appendag(> to (he rectum. 



