I 
74 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 21. Limax. 
Berl, Magaz. 36. p. 345, tah.%, fig. 74. 
Blank. Ini, 151, tab. \l, fig. X. 
1. Entirely whitifti, immaculate, i 
2. Whitifti, with a yellowilh Ihicld. 1 
Tranfiacl. Linn.Soc. iv. p. 85, laL %, fig. l — 4. ' 
This variety, and probably many others, has the power of 
creting a large quantity of mucus from the under lurface, 
forming it into a thread, like a fpider’t web ; by this ine®‘'j 
it often fufpends itfelf, and defcends from the branches 
trees, or any heighth it had crawled up to. 
3. Whitifti, with a black head, 
4. Whitifti, with a cinereous back, 
3. Whitifti, with fcattcred black fpecks. 
Found in gardens, paftures and groves, from May till Deceinb^^' 
and is the fpecies which has been recommended to be fw*'| 
lowed by confumptive perfons; about half an inch lorS' 
when touched it Iticks as if dead to the fingers, 
Cinctus. Yellowilh, with a cinereous belt on the fliield and body. 
Mull, liitt. Verm. 2, p, g, n. 205. 
Found commonly in groves : z inches long. 
Btdy immaculate, beneath white. 
Margina- Cinereous ; Ihield with a dufley ftreak each fide ; body 
tut, blueilh. 
Mull. Hist. Verm. ii. p. 10, n, 206. , 
Found on the Beech : hack with a white ridge, each fide ® 
which it is blueifli-afti : abdomen fometiraes fpotted with bla^^' 
Rectkula* Brown, with black dots on the Ihield and lines on the bodf 
tus. Schceff. Verf. 1, tab. I, and tab. 2, fig. i — 3. 
Inhabits gardens in Denmark and Germany: ij^ inch long. 
Aureus. Yellow’, immaculate, with black feelers. 
Mull. Hist. Verm ii. p. 10, n. 208. 
Inhabits groves of Denmark and Nomuay: an inch and half lofl^' 
Body beneath white, with a black line between the feelers. 
Vu/cus. Reddilh, with a blackifh lateral line and back. 
Inhabits groves. Mull. Hist. Verm. \\. p. 11, «. 109. 
Body 8 lines long, beneath white : abdomen with a longitudil'* | 
brown fpot. 
^enellus, Greenifh, with black head and feelers. 
Mull. Hist./ Verm. ii. /, II, n. iio. 
