74 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 21. Limax. 



BerU Magaz. 36. p. 345, tab, 8, fig. 74. 

 Blank Inj % 151, tab. 1 3, fig. X. 



1. Entirely whitifh, immaculate. 



2. Whitifh, with a yellowifh fhield. 



Tranfacl. Linn.Soc.iv p. 85, tab. %> fig> I — 4. 



This variety, and probably many others, has the power of fe- 

 creting a large quantity of mucus from the under furface, and 

 formirg it into a thread, like a fpider's web ; by this means 

 it often fufpends ltfelf, and defcends from the branches of 

 trees, or any heighth it had crawled up to. 



3. Whitifh, with a black head. 



4. Whitifh, with a cinereous back. 



5. Whitifh, with fcattered black fpecks. 



Found in gardens, paftures and groves, from May till December, 

 and is the fpecies which has been recommended to be fwal- 

 lowed by confumptive perfons ; about half an inch long ? 

 when touched it Hicks as if dead to the fingers, 



Cinctus. Yellowifh, with a cinereous belt on the fhield and body. 

 Mull. I list. Verm. 2, p, 9, n. 205. 

 Found commonly in groves : 2 inches long. 

 Bedy immaculate, beneath white. 



Margina- Cinereous ; fhield with a dufky ftreak each fide : body pale 

 tm % blueifh. 



Mull. Hist. Venn. \u p, 10, », 206. 



Found on the Beech : back with a white ridge, each fide of 

 which it is blueifh-afh : abdomen fometimes fpotted with black. 



Recticulan Brown, with black dots on the fhield and lines on the body* 

 tus. Schceff. Verf. 1, tab. 1, and tab. 2, fig, I — 3. 



Inhabits gardens in Denmark and Germany: if inch long. 



Aureus, Yellow, immaculate, with black feelers. 

 Mull. Hist. Verm ii. p. 10, n. 208, 



Inhabits groves of Denmark and Norway: an inch and half long. 

 Body beneath white, with a black line between the feelers. 



Fufcus. ' Reddifh, with a blackifh lateral line and back. 



Inhabits groves. Mull. Hist. Verm. ii. p. 11, n. 109. 



Body 8 lines long, beneath white : abdomen with a longitudinal 

 brown fpot, 



Tenelluu Greenifh, with black head and feelers. 

 Mull. Hist. Verm. ii. p % I 1, n. 1 10. 



Found 



