78 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



crenulate. Whorls T 1 /^, somewhat convex, the last scarcely 

 two-fifths the total length, lightly and remotely plicate-striate 

 anteriorly. Aperture subvertical, semi-oval; 'Columella 

 shortly and deeply arcuate, callous, obliquely truncate at base. 

 Peristome unexpanded, thin, margins joined by a thin callus. 

 Length 18, diam. 8, aperture 7x4.5 mm. (Bens.). 



Nilgiris (T. Jerdon, type loc.) ; Pulney Hills; Nullay- 

 mallays; Kurnool; Jeypore Hills, east side of Madras (Bed- 

 dome). 



Achatina facula Bs., Ann. and Mag. N. H.(3), v, June, 1860, 

 p. 466. PFR., Monogr., vi, 224. H. & T., Conch. Ind., pi. 35. 

 f. 1 (not good). Glessula f., BEDDOME, P. Mai. Soe. Lond., 

 vii, 168. Achatina perotteti REEVE, Conch. Icon., v, pi. 21, 

 f. 102. Stenogyra (Glessula) facula NEVILL, J. A. S. B., vol. 

 50, 1881, p. 137, pi. 18, 18a (copy from Reeve). 



Cf. G. illustris, no. 69. 



" Intermediate in form between A. oreas and A. hilgeli Pfr., 

 this shell was, in the Conchologia Iconica, confounded with 

 A. perrotteti Pfr., which proved to be a more elongated form, 

 of which A. nilagirica B., fig. 87 of the same plate, is a length- 

 ened variety. Pfeiffer cites fig. 102, with a mark of doubt, 

 under A. perrotteti, in the third volume of his Manual " 

 (Benson). 



42. G. BOTELLUS (Benson). PI. 10, fig. 6. 



Shell oblong, rather solid, smooth, lightly striatulate, under 

 a lens distinctly, closely, spirally, very minutely scratched, 

 polished, tawny-chestnut. Spire ovate-oblong, the apex very 

 obtuse, suture impressed, slightly crenulate. Whorls 7, a 

 little convex, the last slightly wider. Aperture suboblique, 

 semi-oval, whitish within ; columella deeply arcuate, whitish- 

 calloused, subvertically truncate at the base. Peristome un- 

 expanded, the margins joined by a thin callus, right margin 

 slightly widened, flat, not thickened. Length 18, diam. 7.5, 

 aperture 7 x 3.66 mm. (Bens.). 



Nilgiris (T. Jerdon, type loc.) ; Pykara (Blanford). 



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

 1860, p. 465. PFR., Monogr., vi, 226. H. & T., Conch. Ind., 



