GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 73 



37. PFR., Monogr., vi, 223. Glessula a., BEDDOME, 1. c., p. 

 164. 



" Though a good many of this fine, dark chocolate-colored 

 species were taken, none of them had a firm lip, and though 

 eggs were taken from some of them they are probably not full 

 grown. It is not very like any one species, the nearest to it 

 being perrotteti '' (Beddome}. 



33. G. SUBINORNATA Beddome. PI. 8, figs. 5, 6. 



Shell oblong-turrite, solid, closely striate, decussated with 

 very minute obsolete, spiral striae ; tawny, glossy, the apex a 

 little obtuse ; suture lightly impressed, very closely crenulate. 

 Whorls 8, rather flattened, the last two-fifths the total length, 

 a little convex; spire long-turrite. Columella arcuate, white- 

 calloused, obliquely abruptly truncate. Aperture triangular- 

 semi-ovate, whitish inside ; peristome simple, obtuse, 



Length 28, diam. 8, aperture 10x5 mm. (Bedd.). 



S. India: Sispara Ghat, on the Nilgiris. 



G. subinornata BEDDOME, P. Mai. Soc. Lond., vii, Sept., 

 1906, p. 164, pi. 15, f. 3, with var. minor. 



" Allied to the Ceylonese inornata and parabilis; smaller 

 and narrower than the former; larger and with a more 

 elongated spire than the latter." 



' ' Var. minor. Length 21, diam. 7 mm. ; aperture 8 mm. 

 long, 4 wide. Brunagherry Hills, Wynad. 



" Of a pale-steel color, otherwise only differing in size from 

 the type. Very near parabilis, but with rather longer spire 

 and smaller aperture ' (Beddome). 



34. G. BEDDOMEI (Blanford). PL 11, figs. 10, 11. 



" Shell turrite-ovate, solid, finely and closely sub-costu- 

 lately striated, dark-purplish brown, epidermis in parts hav- 

 ing a tendency to assume a dirty cream color, especially in 

 dead specimens. Spire convex below, slightly acuminate 

 above, apex obtuse, rather inclined to the right, suture im- 

 pressed. Whorls 7 1 /2->, convex, the last two-fifths of the 

 entire length, rounded at the base. Aperture nearly vertical, 

 sub-pyriform, milky within ; peristome thickened, white, outer 



