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GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



Someysur Hills (Theobald). 



Achatina I, BENS., Ann. and Mag. N. H. (3), xv, Jan. 

 1865, p. 14. H. & T., Conch. Ind. pi. 35, f. 2. PPR., Monogr. 

 vi, 233. . (G.) leptospira NEVILL, Handlist, p. 171 (Goo- 

 meysur Hill) . 



This species was probably based on immature shells. It 

 may prove to be a form of G. notigena. 



21. G. NOTIGENA (Benson). PI. 12, figs. 3, 4, 9. 



Shell long-conic, attenuate above, thin, subcostulate striate, 

 tawny corneous, glossy, pellucid. Spire turrited, attenuate 

 above, the apex obtuse; suture impressed, irregularly crenu- 

 late. Whorls 9 to 10, a little convex, the last less than one- 

 third the total length of the shell. Aperture subvertical; 

 narrowly semioval; columella slightly arcuate, subvertical, 

 rather obliquely truncate at the base ; peristome unexpanded, 

 thin, the margins joined by a thin callus. Length 20, diam. 

 7, aperture 6 mm. long, scarcely 4 wide. (Bens.) 



Mahableshwar Ghats (type loc., J. Chesson) ; Bombay Ghats 

 (W. Theobald). [Cherra Poonjee, Sylhet, teste Beddome]. 



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

 1860, p. 462. H. & T., Conch. Ind. pi. 35, f. 8, 9. PFR., 

 Monogr. vi, 229. BEDDOME, P. Mai. Soc. Lond. vii, 166. 

 Stenogyra (G.) notigera Blanf., NEVILL, Handlist Ind. Mus. 

 p. 167, no. 40 (Poona and Khandala). 



Benson records a variety which is more inflated, ovate- 

 turrite, 22 x 8 mm. No locality for it is mentioned. He 

 writes: "This shell has relations to A. chessoni in the attenu- 

 ation of the spire towards the summit, a feature observable 

 also in the northeastern A. tenuispira. It differs in form, 

 size, proportions, etc. In one specimen from Bombay the 

 attenuation of the spire is less conspicuous." Col. Beddome 

 states that the specimens he has seen are in no way separable 

 from tenuispira. 



The initial half whorl is smooth; then very fine, close, 

 regular vertical striae appear, continuing to the end of the 

 embryonic shell, which consists of two whorls (fig. 9). After 

 this, the striae are irregular, coarse ones appearing in groups, 



