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parts having a teudeucy to assume a dirty cream colour, especially 

 in dead specimens. Spire convex below, slightly acuminate 

 above, apox obtuse, rather inclined to the right, suture impressed. 

 Wliorls 7.4-8, convex, the last | of the entire lengtli, rounded at 

 the base. ' Aperture nearly vertical, sub-pyriform, milky within ; 

 peristome thickened, white, outer margin rather straight, not 

 arcuate, columella deeply curved, lined with cahus, sub-obliquely 

 and rather broadly truncated at the base. 



"Length 30, diam. 11;^ millim. Aperture 10 millim. long, 

 G broad." (Blanford.) 



Hah. India: Anamullay Hills, 5000 to 7000 feet (Beddome). 



"This is a more solid form tlum any of the Nilgiri species, and 

 it differs from all of them, and also from the soHd Ceylonese 

 forms, in its sub-acuminate apex. It is a well-marked species." 

 (Blanford.) 



Beddome records the species from Ceylon, stating that specimens 

 from that island are slightly narrower but do not otherwise differ. 

 I have not seen any Cinghalese specimens which can be referred 

 to G. heddotnei, the only specimen so labelled in the Beddome 

 collection being a variety of G. reymlli {q. v.). 



373. Glessiila pallens, Beddome. 



Glessula beddomei, var. palkms, Beddome, Proc. Make. Sop. London, 

 vii, 1906, p. 165 ; Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 74. 



Shell ovate-conoid, somewhat thin, finely and closely striated, 

 pale straw-coloured with irregular fuscous transverse streak's, 

 variously spaced. Spire convex conoid, suture deep, apex acute. 



Fi". 1-5. — Gletisula 2:>(dlens. %. 



Whorls 8|, convex, the last equalling | the entire length of the 

 shell, convex at the base. Aperture a little oblique, obovate- 

 pyriform, pearly within, the margins united by a thin callus ; 

 peristome scarcely thickened, outer margin regularly curved, 



