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Blanford's types, and all the specimens I have seen of this, are 

 young shells, with fragile, unformed lips. They fit well with young 

 of tenuispira. Blanford himself mentions that there are signs of 

 a passage, and it would certainly not be advisable to consider it 

 a good species without seeing specimens with adult lip. 



4. Glessula Shiplayi (Pfeiffer). 

 Achatina Shiplayi, Pfr. : Mon. Hel., vol. iv, p. 612. 



Hab. — Nilgiris ; Anamallays; Shevaroys (South India). 



Adults up to 36 mm. long, whorls 14. Hanley's figure is from 

 quite a juvenile. 



Full-grown specimens were very rarely found by me, though young, 

 half-, and three-quarter grown ones are most abundant on the Nilgiris. 

 This and some other species certainly breed before the shell attains 

 full size or a hardened peristome, as I have taken eggs from such 

 shells. The peristome differs much in mature specimens, sometimes 

 being very thick and solid, sometimes quite thin, but, even then, firm, 

 and not breaking or becoming jagged at the least touch, which is the 

 sign that the shell has not finished its growth. Full-grown examples 

 of Shiplayi are very like, tenuispira, but smaller. It also runs 

 Nilagirica very closely, but the latter has a stronger sculpture, and is 

 broader at the base. 



5. Glessula Nilagirica (Benson), lleeve. 

 Achatina Nilagirica (Benson MSS.), Reeve; Nilagirica, var. 



Kurnoolensis, Nevill : Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 1 (1880), 



p. 136. 

 The shell I take to be this species is the one described by Nevill. 

 I collected it both on the Nilgiris and Nullaymallays (Kurnool). It 

 is of the same length and has the same number of whorls as Shiplayi, 

 and is very like the full-grown shell of that species, only it has 

 a more prominent striation, and is considerably broader towards the 

 base. The young shell is conical from a broad base, the young of 

 Shiplayi being much more cylindrical. If Reeve's figure, copied by 

 Nevill, is this species, it must be a small form of it. It is more 

 probably Perrotteti. 



6. Glessula hebes, Blanford. 



Glessula hebes, Blanford: Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxix (1870), 

 p. 21, pi. iii, fig. 21. 



Sab. — Poona ; Shevaroys (Blanford) ; Pulney Hills and Nilgiris 

 (Nevill). 



Ten specimens received from Blanford and Evizard, collected near 

 Poona, are all young, with quite unformed lip ; and all the types of 

 hebes in Blanford's collection, and the specimens in the Natural 

 History Museum and others that I have seen, are the same. If full- 

 grown, or nearly so, it must be a much smaller species than Shiplayi. 

 It runs the young of that species rather closely, but the apex is 

 generally blunter. Specimens collected by me on the Shevaroys are 

 referred here by Blanford ; they are, however, immature, and appear 



