GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 69 



S. India: Mahableshwar Mts. (J. Chesson, type loc.); 

 North Canara forests; near Sircee (Beddome) ; Igapuri 

 (Stoliczka) ; Torna and Purandhar (Blanf.). 



Achatina chessoni BENS., Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), v, June, 

 1860, p. 462. PFR., Monogr. vi, 222. HANL. & THEOB., 

 Conch. Ind. pi. 17, f. 8. Glessula c., BEDDOME, P. Mai. Soc. 

 vii, 163. S. (G.) chessoni NEVILL, Handlist, p. 167. 



There is also a more slender variety 33 x 12 mm. noted 

 by Benson. 



26. G. TORNENSIS Blanford. PI. 11, figs. 3, 4. 



Shell ovate-oblong, rather thin, smooth, glossy, polished, 

 subobsoletely striatulate, tawny-corneous; spire long-conoid, 

 the sides convex ; apex very obtuse ; suture impressed, some- 

 what corrugated above. Whorls 7 to iy 2 , convex, the last 

 over two-fifths the total length, rounded beneath. Aperture 

 subvertical, oblong-semioval ; peristome unexpanded, thin, 

 the margins joined by a thin callus ; coluinella deeply arcuate, 

 whitish, almost vertically truncate in front. Length 25, 

 diam. 14, oblique alt. of aperture 12, width 7 mm. (Blanf.). 



S. and W. India: Torna Hills, near the town of Poona on 

 the west, (type loc.) ; Anamullays; Tinnevelly; Travancore 

 Ghats (Beddome). 



Glessula tornensis BLANF., Journ. A. S. B. vol. 39, 1870, p. 

 22, pi. 3, f. 22. BEDDOME, P. Mai. Soc. vii, 163. Achatina t., 

 Conch. Indica, pi. 78, f. 3. 



" In form it is remarkably similar to G. textilis W. Blanf., 

 from the Anamallay Hills, but it entirely wants the colored 

 markings of that species " (Blanf.). Col. Beddome remarks, 

 " My Travancore specimens were labelled siibtornensis by 

 Nevill, but I cannot see how they differ. I took a very beau- 

 tiful, dark chocolate-colored variety on the Calcad Hills in 

 Tinnevelly." Fig. 4 is the typical form from Torna Hills. A 

 specimen measures, length 26.5, diam. 13.5, aperture 12 mm., 

 with 714 whorls. Hanley figures a much more obese form 

 from the same place (fig. 3). 



27. G. TEXTILIS Blanford. PI. 11, figs. 6, 7. 



" Shell ovate-oblong, rather solid, translucent, striated near 



