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favourite culinary snail (Fig. 195). This is the species which is 

 used as a speaking sign-board over the doors of the wine-shops and 



Fig. 193. — Helix aspersa (Miiller). 



Fig. 194. — Helix aspersa 

 (Var. Scalaris). 



small restaurants in the neighbourhood of the Halles, at Paris. Its 

 shell is globose and tun-shaped, very solid, marked with irregular 



Fig. 195. — Helix pomatia (Linnaeus). 



transverse stripes of a brownish rust colour, with bands, often nearly 

 effaced, of a deeper tint, and of the same colour. The animal is 

 large, of a yellowish grey, and covered with elongated irregular 

 tubercles. 



