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the Beddome collection) (Plate CLXIV. fig. 13) does not agree with 
the species from the typical locality, the Golconda Hills. It is, in 
my opinion, a large variety of Glessula crassula, Bs. 
Gimssuta sarissa, Benson. (No. 1596 B.M.) (Plate CLXI. 
fig. 10.) 
Faguirabanda, Jessore, Lower Bengal (Godwin - Austen) 
(270.06.2.2) Diamond Harbour, Hoogly River (IW. 7’. Glanford). 
Size: maj. diam. 6°8 ; length 18-8 mm. 
This is a finer specimen than the type described by Benson by 
nearly 3mm. I give enlarged figure of the apex (Plate CLXIII. 
fig. 18). 
Achatina sarissa, B. A.M. N.H. ser. 3, vol. v. p. 463 (1860). 
Original description :—“ Vesta elongato-conica, tenui, levigata, 
striatula, anfractibus ultimis sub lente confertim obsolete decussatis, 
nitidissima, olivaceo-cornea ; spira elongato-pyramidata, upice obtuso, 
sutura impressa ; anfractibus 72 convexiusculis, ultimo 2 teste super- 
ante ; apertura subverticali, ovato-elliptica, anal obliqua, leviter 
arcuata, albido-callosa, basi oblique truncata, peristomate recto, 
tenwe. 
“Long. 16, diam, 5} mill. ; apert. 5 mill. longa, 33 lata. 
‘“‘ Habitat prope Comercolly, Bengalia, ad ripas flaminis Gangis— 
Detexit Dr. Theodore Cantor.” 
GiEssuLa Gemma, Bs.; Reeve, Conch. Icon. Achatina, pl. 22. f. 125 
Original description :—* Testa ovato-oblonga, solidiuscula, levi- 
gata, nitida, pellucida, purpurascenti-cornea ; spira elato-conica, 
apice acutiuseula ; sutura profunda ; anfr. 6 convexrusculi ; ultimus 
2 longitudinis equans, basi rotundatus ; columella arcuata, subcallosa, 
perist, simplex, reclum, margine dextro et basali leviter arquatis. 
‘Long. 8-82, diam. 4 mill., ap. 3 mill., longa 2 lata.” 
As a subgenus of Cionella it was made the type by Von Martens. 
No. 3559, From Khoostia, Bengal. (Plate CLXI. fig. 26.) 
4. Hy. Bf. (9.1.15). From Bengal; authentic sp. (Plate 
CUXI. fig. 27. 
No. 3382. From Chandanagore. (Plate CLXI. fig. 28.) Re- 
ceived from Nevill. 
Hy. Bf. (9.ii1.15). From Chittagong, var. (Plate CLXI. 
fig. 29.) 
No. 3391. From Garo Hills. I have two specimens, much 
smaller and less tumid than the typical shell, measuring 
6x 3mm. Sixwhorls. This I distinguish as var. minuta, 
It is dark umber in colour. 
This species is thus spread over the whole front of the Delta of 
the Ganges and Brahmaputra. 
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