70 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



the suture, smooth, polished, dark chestnut with close vertical 

 and horizontal lines of a greyish-yellow color, varying in 

 breadth and resembling the threads of an irregularly woven 

 cloth. Spire elongated, conoidal with convex sides, apex ob- 

 tuse, sutures impressed. Whorls 7, convex, the last about 

 two-fifths of the entire length, rounded beneath. Aperture 

 vertical, truncately semi-oval, milky within; peristome 

 slightly thickened, white, right margin slightly sinuate 

 towards the base, eolumella deeply curved, obliquely truncated 

 beneath, margins united by a thin callus. Length 26, diam. 

 13 mm. Aperture lO 1 /^ mm. long, 7 broad " (Blanf.). 



S. India: Anamullay Hills, 6000 ft., type loc. (Blanf.); 

 Pulney Hills (Fairbank) ; Tinnevelly and Travancore Ghats 

 (Beddome). 



Achatina textilis BLANF., J. A. S. B. xxxv, 1866, p. 41. 

 Conch. Ind., pi. 17, f. 10. PFR., Monogr. vi, 220. Glessula t., 

 BEDDOME, I. c., p. 163. 8. (G.) textilis NEVILL, Handlist p. 

 168. 



" This is the only indigenous Indian Achatina with which 

 I am acquainted possessing colored markings. In form it 

 approaches some of the Ceylon Achatina, and also an unde- 

 scribed Deccan species" (Blanf.). 



" Varies in diameter from 10 to 14 mm. I have specimens 

 from the Tinnevelly Ghats in which the textile coloring is 

 reduced to a single narrow band on each of the three lower 

 whorls, or is entirely obsolete " (Beddome). 



Besides the numerous reddish lines and bands on a pale- 

 yellow ground, it is sometimes sprinkled with buff dots. A 

 small specimen from the Pulney Hills figured measures, 

 length 21, diam. 9.9, length of aperture 9.8 mm. (fig. 7). 



28. G. SENATOR (Hanley). PL 11, fig. 8. 



Shell subovate-conoid, sometimes narrower, thin, glossy, 

 smooth; chocolate, conspicuously ornamented with a yellow- 

 ish or pale stripe. Whorls convex, much wider than high 

 (61/2 in an imperfect example), rapidly increasing, marked 

 below the deeply-impressed suture with a very narrow band 

 and above it with a wide one, which continues on the last 



