glesstjla. 383 



"Long. 17, diam. 5 mill. Ap. oblique 41 longa, 2'^ lata." 

 {Pfeifer.) 



fJab. India: Deo Ghat, Poona (Etwzard) ; Shevroy Jlills 

 (Jkddome) ; Dafla Hills {Qodivin- Austen) ; Pulnoy Hills {Fair- 

 hanJc); Koonoor Pass (XeviU); Ma.hah\es\\\\ar (Beddome). 



Wlien tirst described by Pfeiffer he was unaware of the habitat 

 of the species, although the specimens ' were forwarded direct to 

 Cuming by Major Evezard. Two years after J31anford again 

 described the species, aud, as his diagnosis is based on better and 

 more ample material, I append it. 



" Testa sub-cylindricoturrita, tenuis, pallido-cornea, translucens, 

 polita, striatula; spira elevata, subtus sub-eylindrica, lateribus 

 versus apicem obtusum convexis ; sutura impressa. Anfr. 9-10| 

 convexi, regulariter crescentes, ultimus brevis, |-i longitudinis 

 subaequans. Apertura ovato-oblougo, parum obliqua ; peristoma 

 tenue ; columella valde arcuata, antice oblique truncata. 

 " Long. 17-22, diam. 5 mill. Ap. 4-4| longa, 2^-3 lata. 

 " The nearest ally to this species appears to be G. tamidica,Vl. 

 and H. Blanf., from near Trichonopoli, which is distinguished 

 by greater diameter in proportion to the length, aud a more 

 regularly tapering spire. Intermediate forms ma}' hereafter be 

 found, however. 



•' A specimen from the Shevroy Hills, near Salem in Southern 

 India, sent to me by Major Beddome, only differs from G. hehes in 

 being longer aud slightly more attenuate towards the apex. It 

 has 13 whorls." {Blanford.) 



Beddome expressed considerable doubt as to its distinctness 

 from G. fairbanki, stating that all the specimens of G. hehes he had 

 seen were young, with unformed lip. He adds : " If full grown, 

 or nearly so, it must be a nnich smaller species than shipJwji. It 

 runs the young of that species rather closely, but the apex is 

 generally blunter. Specimens collected by me on the Shevroys 

 are i-eferred here by Blanford ; they are, however, immature, and 

 appear rather to belong to fairhanhi, if that species is distinct, 



which I doubt Hanley's figure of liehes hns the tapering 



apex of young sliipla>ji and is unlike my type of hehes.'' 



Glessula hehes has the whorls more narrowly coiled than fair- 

 hanki ; other differences are indicated under the latter. The 

 figure given by Blanford is rather poor, the strite being more pro- 

 nounced. Two specimens from the Shevroy Hills, in the Beddome 

 collection, possess 9 o- whorls, one measures only 12 mm. and the 

 other 13 mm. 



349. Glessula fairhanki, Benson. 



Achatina fairban/./, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xv, ISG'), p. 14} 



Pfeiffer, Men. lleiic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 232. 

 Achatina {Eledni) fairbanki, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, 



pi. 18, fig. 3. 



