Class VI. LIMAX. SLUG. 77 



lume of the Linncean Transactions, under the 

 name of Limax Jilans, has the faculty of form- 

 ing a thread like the spiders or caterpillars. 

 That gentleman observed* one hanging from 

 a Scotch fir four feet from the branch of the 

 tree, and four feet and an half from the ground, 

 to which it was approaching by the elongation 

 of the thread, at the rate of about an inch in 

 three minutes. Ed. 



* On the 11th of October 1811, I observed the same phaeno- 

 menon. This was suspended from a projecting part of a build- 

 ins. H. D. 



