GLESSULA. 437 



}Jah. India : Courtalluui, Tinnevelly (Beddome). Type iu the 

 British Museum. 



This uew si)ecies is nearly allied to G.iiusilla, Beddome, but is 

 more cylindrical, with more narrowly coiled AA'horls, a narrower 

 base, and a narrower aperture. Several shells were found in the 

 Beddome collection, labelled G. courtaUica, a name which has 

 never been ])ublished. The type has the periostracum of a milky 

 hue, the result, probably, of exposure, since the other specimens 

 are all of a dark fulvous colour. These, however, only possess 

 from 5 to 5^ whorls. One specimen, with the last whorl broken, 

 is composed of 7 whorls and measures 7 mm. in length. 



430. Glessula mullorum, Blanford. 



Achatina vmllorum, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 362, pi. 1, 



fig. 17; Pleitfer, Mou. Ilelic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 228; Hanley 



cfe Theobald, Conch. Iiid. 1875, pi. 102, tig. 5. 

 Steiwyyra (Glessula) mullorum, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 167. 

 Glessula mullorum, Pfeifl'er & Clessin, Nomeucl. Helic. Mv. 1881, 



p. 331 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 171 ; 



I'ilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 84, pi. 13, fig. 10. 



Oric/inal description : — " Testa turrito-oblonga, solidiuscula, 

 pallide cornea, diaphana, subremote leviter striata ; spira turrita, 

 apioe obtusa, sutura impressa. Anfr. 6 convexi ; ultimus ^ longi- 

 tudinis subsequans, basi rotundatus. Columella brevis, arcuata, 

 vix callosa, oblique truncata. Apertura fere semicircularis, verti- 

 calis ; peristoma rectum, obtusum, marginibus callo teiuii juuctis. 



" Long. 74, diam. vix 4 nun, Ap. 2| alta, 1| lata." (Blanford.) 



Huh. India : Madras (Blanford). 



" This is one of the group of small Indian Acliatinas comprising 

 A. gemma., Bens., and A. scrvtillns, B. From these two shells the 

 present species is distinguished by its conical spire with straight 

 and not convex sides, its paler colour and sculpture. Both 

 varieties were found abundantly cra^ ling on banks, in a garden 

 at Nungumbaukum, a suburb of Madras." (Blanford.) 



The two varieties to which ]31anford refers are the type and a 

 form he records as " var. a. anf ractus ultimus nitidior, tumidior," 

 but does not name. 



431. Glessula blanfordiana, XeviU. 



Glessula bkmfordiana, Nevill, J. A. S. B. xlvi, 1877, p. 26 ; ibid., 

 in Andersou, Zool. lies. Exp. W. Yuunaii, i, 1878, Mollusca, 

 p. 886 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 171 ; 

 PiLsbvy, Man. Couch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 98, pi. 13, fig. 11. 



Stemx/yra [Glessula) hlanfordiana, Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, 

 p. 138, pi. 5, fig. 12. 



" Shell ovately turreted, solid, of a dark brown colom-, two 

 apical whorls smooth, the others sculptured with raised, coarse, 

 longitudinal, nearly perpendicular strife, much crowded together 



