. GLBSSULA, 415 



397. Glessula blanda, sp. n. 



Shell elongate-conoid, opaque, rathei* thin, pale yellow, glossy, 

 very finely striated. Spire narrow, scarcely convex ; suture 

 shallow, marginate ; apex a little obtuse. Whorls 8|, flattened, 

 increasing slowly at first, the last four rather suddenly, the last 

 whorl equalling in width nearly ^ of the entire length of the 

 shell. Aperture oblique, narrowly obovate, the margins united 

 by a thin callus on the parietal wall : peristome with acute mar- 

 gins ; outer margin scarcely curved, basal margin deeply curved ; 

 columella arcuate, obliquely truncate. 



Length 15-5, diam. 5 mm. ; apert., height 5, width 2-.5 nmi. 



Fii^. l31.-~-G/c^sula blanda. 



Ilah. India: Auamullays {Beddome). Type in the British 

 Museum. 



Several specimens without name in the Beddome collection 

 were fouiul to pertain to an undescribed form. The new species 

 somewhat resembles a miniature 6-'. bensoniana, but the outline is 

 a little more cylindrical, the spire is a little more convex, the 

 apex a little moi-e obtuse, the base narrower, while the shell is 

 more glossy and the striae are much finer. 



A single specimen occurs Avith narrower base and with more 

 convex whorls. Some of the shells are of a very pale yellow, 

 almost approaching white, while several are dark fuscous, and 

 others again pale fuscous and very translucent. 



398. Glessula bensoniana. Pfeiff't r. 



Achatina bensoniana, Pfeiffer, Zeits, Malak. viii, 1851, p. 27 ; ibid. 



Moil. Helic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 494 ; ibid., Conch. -Cab., Bulhmis, 



18()0, p, 825, pi. 2G, tios. 12, 13. 

 Oleaci/ia {Eledva) bensoniana, Adams, Gou. liec. 31oll. ii, 1855 



p. 105. 

 Achatina {Electro) bensoniana, PfeilTer, ^lalak. Blatt. ii, 1856, 



p. 168. 

 Stenoqyra (Glessula) bensoniana, Nevill, Hand Li.^t, i,1878. p 167; 



ibid., J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 137, pi. 5, tig. 16. 

 Glessula bensoniana, Pfeiffer >fc Clessiu, Nomencl. llelic. Viv. 1881, 



p. 330 ; Jousseaume, Mem. See. Zool. France, vii, 1894, p. 293 ; 



IJeddorae, Proc. Malac. See. London, vii, 1906, p. 167 ; Pilsbry, 



Man. Conch., ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 67, pi. 12, figs. 13, 14. 



Original description: — "T. oblongo-subulata, tenuis, vix stria- 

 tula, uitida, subpellucida, fulvo-cornea ; spira subturrita, apice 



