LIMAX MAXIMUf 



crevice or clinik iii which it has established itself; as shown ])y their slime- 

 tracks, these^auimals iii^the course of their peregrinations often fnmi a lonp 



Fig. 5G, — Mucus-track, twenty feet or more in length, oi Liiiiax niaxiuins L., observed Iiy Mr. L. M. 

 Adams, upon tlie boundary wall of the Churchyard, Clifton, Derbyshire, July 8, 1898, illustrating the 

 homing propensity. 



or figure of 8, the return track crossing the outwarrl one at some point, 

 usually near to the chosen home. 



The oLFAOTOiiY sense is strongly developed in the Liniaces, the keen per- 

 ception of Liinax inK.rimus being established by the well-known experiment 

 of Mi.iquin-Tandon.^ Striking confirmation of this acuteuess (jf their olfac- 

 tory faculty is related by Mr. L. E. Adams, who, about ten o'clock, one dark, 

 windy, and wet evening in August, 1S97, at Clifton, Derbyshire, saw a Linnt.r 

 mn.rimug crawling directly towards a plate upon the lawn, containing the 

 remains of the dog's dinner ; when first observed the slug was about six 



X; 



Fig. 57.-r)iaKram of the route traversed by L:'„i,ix inaxiiitin L. , in following the changes 

 of position of a plate of food, as observed by Mr. L. E. Adams, at Clifton, Derbyshire. 



feet distant from the plate, but within thirty minutes hatl reached it ; the 

 plate was then nroved to a second position, about six feet away, but in 

 another direction ; the slug almost immediately changeil its course, and 



1 Monog. i., p. 229. 



