86 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



Glessula filosa BLANF., J. A. S. B., vol. 39, 1870, p. 19, pi. 

 3, f. 16. BEDDOME, 1. c., p. 171. Achatina filosa PFR., 

 Monogr., viii, p. 279. H. & T., Conch. Ind., pi. 36, f. 10. 



" A peculiar form, easily distinguished by its strong sculp- 

 ture, abrupt, subconical apex, and by the columella standing 

 out from the last whorl, so as to have a groove running along 

 its side " (Blanf.). 



56. G. SUBFILOSA Beddome. PL 8, figs. 15, 16. 



Shell elongate-turrite, thin, tawny-corneous, distinctly 

 plicate-striate. Spire long, subobtuse at the apex, long-conic. 

 Suture impressed. Whorls 10, rather flat, the last sub- 

 carinate, scarcely one-third the total length. Aperture lun- 

 ate-suboval; peristome thin; columella deeply arcuate, ab- 

 ruptly obliquely truncate. Length 16, diam. 5, aperture 

 5 x 3 mm. (Beddome). 



South India : Sirumallay Hills, Dindigul. 



Glessula sulfilosa BEDD., Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond. vii, Sept. 

 1906, p. 171, pi. 15, f. 8, 8a. 



"The prominent sculpture is like that of filosa, but it is a 

 very much smaller shell, with a much more elongated apex." 



57. G. LYRATA Blanford. PI. 13, fig. 15. 



Shell ovate-turrite, rather solid, corneous, a little shining, 

 vertically costulate-plicate, under the lens decussated with 

 very minute, close spiral lines, often obsolete. Spire pyra- 

 midal, the sides slightly convex; apex rather obtuse; suture 

 deep. Whorls 7y 2 , convex, obsoletely subangular below the 

 suture, the last a little ascending in front. Aperture vertical, 

 truncate, semioval; peristome obtuse; columella moderately 

 arcuate, obliquely truncate in front. Length 12, diam. 5.5, 

 aperture 4 x 2% mm. (Blanf.) 



Mahableshwar (type loc.) ; Khandala, western Ghats 

 (Blanford). 



Glessula lyrata BLANF., J. A. S. B. vol. 39, 1870, p. 20, with 

 var matheranica, p. 21, pi. 3, f. 19. Achatina lyrata H. & T., 

 Conch. Indica pi. 18, f. 9. S. (G.) lyrata NEVILL, Handlist, 

 p. 167. 



