LS) 
Or 
HELICIDA. 
Var. conoidea, Westerlund. 
Leigh Woods, Bristol; Bristol Mus. Coll. 
Hedgebanks at Milton Clevedon, and the lower slopes of 
Creech Hill towards Bruton! Haslemere Mus. Coil. 
Var. fuscescens, Duchassing (=v. marmorata, Taylor). 
Milton Hill, near Bruton, and hedgebank, near Castle 
Cary ! 
Montacute; J. Ponsonby. 
Var. cincta, Taylor (=v. pallida, Taylor). 
Near Bruton, rare; C. D. Heginbotham. 
Milton Clevedon ! 
Var. flavescens, Moquin- Tandon. 
Near Bristol; Bristol Mus. Coll. 
Gant’s Mill, near Bruton, a conoidal form ! 
Montacute; J. Ponsonby. 
Milton Clevedon ! 
Var. albina, Moquin- Tandon. 
Bath; Bristol Mus. Coll. 
HELIX ASPERSA, Miller. 
The well-known common or garden snail, always abundant 
in the neighbourhood of human habitations, and often a great 
pest in gardens. It is sold in the Bristol markets, and else- 
where, as “ wall-fish,” and is an esteemed article of diet by the 
poor of Bristol, Swindon, and other towns. There are men 
who make a livelihood during the winter by collecting these 
snails from their hibernating places. In November, 1896, I 
met a “wall-fish” collector at Bratton St. Maur. He was 
collecting for a Bristol dealer, his home, however, was in Kent, 
where he worked as a carpenter in summer and autumn. He 
had visited Somerset regularly for many winters to collect 
these snails. He told me that the hybernaeulum usually faces 
the south-west, that the molluscs congregate in some numbers, 
and appear to have a predilection for certain spots. They 
seldom hibernate under oaks, and, though old walls are favourite 
retreats in summer (whence they probably owe the name of 
‘“‘wall-fish’’), they rarely winter in them. He carried an iron 
rod about two feet long, slightly crooked at one end, with 
which he probed likely nooks and corners. He had that morn- 
ing extracted a gallon and a half of these snails from a hyber- 
naculum near the village, but this was an unusual occurrence ; 
he asserted that his “takings” seldom exceeded a gallon per 
day. 
