90 GLESSULA, NON-PENINSULAR INDIA TO INDO-CHINA. 



A much more slender species than A. tenuispira Bens., 

 (a variety of which also abounds in parts of Pegu), though 

 there are signs of a passage. The present appears to replace 

 A. tenuispira in Arakan and Bassein. Mr. Benson, to whom 

 I sent a specimen, observes that it is intermediate between 

 A. tenuispira and A. hastula Bens. (Blanf.) 



Col. Beddome gives the localities, Assam; Arakan; Garo 

 and Naga Hills; Burma. He remarks that " Blanf ord's 

 types and all the specimens I have seen of this, are young 

 shells, with fragile, unformed lips. They fit well with young 

 of tenuispira. Blanford himself mentions that there are 

 signs of a passage, and it would certainly not be advisable to 

 consider it a good species without seeing specimens with adult 

 lip." 



60. G. NAJA 'Blanford' n.sp. PI. 12, fig. 10. 



Shell slender, turrite, thin, yellow-corneous, glossy, 

 weekly striatulate, and having vertical grooves at unequal 

 intervals; this sculpture is most evenly developed just below 

 the suture. Under the compound microscope glimpses of ex- 

 cessively weak close spiral granule-lines may be seen in places. 

 Outlines of the spire nearly straight, a trifle contracted near 

 the apex. Whorls 9*4, moderately convex, separated by a 

 deeply impressed simple suture. Aperture a little oblique; 

 outer lip thin; columella rather long, regularly concave, 

 truncate at the base. Length 19, diam. 6.6, length of aper- 

 ture 6.5 mm. 



Assam. 



Glessula naja Blanf., in coll. A. N. S. P. 1 Stenogyra 

 (Glessula) n. sp., NEVILL, Handlist Ind. Mus. p. 170, no. 80. 



The later whorls are decidedly longer than in G. tenuispira 

 and its immediate allies. The specimens were received from 

 Nevill under the name used above; they may possibly be 

 Glessula no. 80 of his Handlist, since they seem related to 

 G. subfusiformis. 



61. G. NILAGARICA ('Benson' Reeve). PI. 9, fig. 5. 



Shell pyramidally turrited; whorls 10, convex, very finely 



