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GLESSULA CRASSILABRIS, Bs., var. NANA.. (Plate CLXII. fig. 23.) 
No. 1609 B.M. 
Locality. North Khasi (2 specimens) (Godwin- Austen). 
Shell oblong turreted, smooth and shiny; sculpture: a few 
incised lines; colour ochraceous with a green tinge; spire elongate, 
sides convex, apex blunt; suture impressed; whorls 7, slightly 
convex; aperture narrowly ovate; peristome outer lip thickened 
slightly ; columellar margin short, truncated, rather straight. 
Size: maj. diam. 3°8 ; loneth 8 mm. 
This shell, evidently fully grown, has much the form of G. erassi- 
labris, and the sculpture is of similar character, but it is so very 
much smaller. There being only two specimens it is better to 
consider them a dwarf variety than to give a specific title. A 
single specimen was also found in the Jatinga Valley, N. Cachar 
(No. 3412 B.M.), another on Koliaghur Hill on the L.B. of the 
Brahmaputra (No. 3567 B.M.), while yet another from the Dunsiri 
Valley, also at a low elevation (No. 3392 B.M.). 
GLEssULA PyRAMIs, Bs. (Plate CLX. fig. 24; Plate CLXIV. 
fig. 23, apex.) 
Locality. Teria Ghat, 3550 G.-A. coll. (Godwin-Austen). 
Achatina pyramis, Bs. 
Original description :—‘ Testa oblongo-turrita, soliduda, laevigata, 
striatula, nitida, luteo-corneo ; spira turrita, lutertbus conveatuseulis, 
apice obtusiusculo, sutura impressa ; anfractibus 8, convewiusculis, 
ultimo + teste equante, antice obsolete plicato ; apertura subverticali, 
elliptico-semiovali, columella arcuata, callosa, basi oblique truncata, 
peristomate recto obtuso, intus albido-labiato, 
“Long. 15, diam. 6 mill.; apert. 5 mill. longa, 23 lata. 
‘* Habitat ad Teria Ghat Montium Khasi. Detexit W. Theobald. 
** Allied to the smaller Ach. crassula, B., from Darjiling, but 
distinguished from it by its colour, smoother sculpture, more convex 
and numerous whorls, by the characters of the peristome, and by 
the convex and not planate sides of the spire. 
‘A large variety of Ach. crassula, collected by Mr. W. T. Blan- 
ford near Darjiling, is 12 mill. in length by 54 in breadth, and, 
like the type, possesses only seven whorls.” 
E. pyramis is very smooth and glassy. The largest specimen 
from Tiria Ghat figured measures 14:5 x 5-75, slightly smaller than 
the specimen described by Benson. 
In the Beddome collection I found a single specimen (No. 747) 
named pyramis by Colonel Beddome; he anes not refer to it in his 
notes on the genus, alihough its habitat is Ponsee. It measures 
17 x 6:3 mm. 
This is no doubt the Glessula pyramis, var. mejor, of ieee 
Nevill, 6 sp., Ponsee coil. Dr. J. Anderson, vide ‘ Hand-list,’ 
p. 169. In the copy which he gaye to me, Nevill has eee 
