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Moli-morno at Limoges, Limaia at Montpellier, Livree 

 in the north, of France, and Carcrcolo in the Pyrenees/'* 



Helix pisana, which is a very local species with us, 

 and only found at Tenby (where I have seen it in 

 profusion), at Manorbeer, in Cornwall, Jersey, and 

 Ireland, is greatly prized as an article of food abroad, 

 and is larger than it is with us, indeed, almost as 

 large as Helix nemoralis. 



At Marseilles the average sale of Helix pisana and 

 Helix rhodostomdj is about 20,000 kilogrammes, at three 

 francs the fifty kilogrammes, which makes the sum of 

 1 200 francs. By the sale of our common garden snail 

 (Helix asperxa] the same price is realized, and that of 

 Helix vermiculaia amounts to 4800 francs. It is also 

 stated that in the market at Dijon is sold, annually, 

 about 6000 francs worth of the vine snail Helix 

 pomaiia (the escargot par excellence, and called also 

 2/umciy Gros luma, and le Moucle de vigne) at one franc 

 fifty centimes per hundred.f In Italy the vine snail is 

 known in some places by the name of Bovolo. In 

 Corsica the same species are eaten, as those above men- 

 tioned, and it is said that, in the Island of Re the sale 

 of these Heliddce amounts annually to 25,000 francs, 

 but probably this sum is exaggerated. 



In Burgundy, Champagne, and Tranche-Co rnte, a 

 great quantity of snails of all kinds are consumed, and 

 also sent to Paris; and Professor Simmonds mentions 

 that (in 1859) there were fifty restaurants, and more 

 than 1200 private tables in that city, where snails 

 were considered a delicacy by from 8000 to 10,000 

 consumers ; that the monthly consumption of this 

 mollusk was estimated at half a million ; again, that 

 the market value of the vineyard snail (vine snail, Helix 

 * Dr. jgbrard, ' Des Escargots.' f ld&m. 



