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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. 1 eee cea 
ar. 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 (Linnzus). 
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. 
