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often far more easily described than the shell itself. In tlie South 

 African genera, Fellatus and Kerkophorus, it is a beautiful object 

 in the microscope. 



Under Gleasula tenuispira, Benson, Colonel Beddome in his notes 

 on Indian and Cej'lonese species of GlesKula in the ' Proceedings of 

 the llalacologicnl Society of London,' vol. vii., Sept. 19(»6, p. 160, 

 says : " Full grown ones collected in the Teesta Valley near 

 Darjiling and in North Canara measure 44 mm. in length (vide 

 Plato CLIX. fig. 1 ) and have fourteen whorls." The single exan]])le 

 recorded from N. Canara is now in the Natural Hi-^tory Museum 

 and is before me. This is a part of India which was well known 

 to Colonel Beddome — in fact, where his work as head of the Forest 

 Department lay. It is noticeable there should he no history, no 

 remark on the very remarkable occurrence of this species in 

 Southern India, and that only a single specimen was secured. 

 Until it is rediscovered very considerable doubt must attach to the 

 accuracy of the habitat. The specimen may even have been 

 purchased. 



Glussctla canaraensis, n. sp. (Plate CLIX. fig. 8.) No. 681 

 Bedd. Coll. B.M. 



Locality/. N. Canara, collector unknown. (A single specimen, 

 if found again.) 



Shell elongately turreted ; sculpture : irregular fine striation ; 

 colour pale ochracoous; spire long, apex rather blunt, rounded; 

 suture impressed, very slightly notched on lower margin by the 

 striation ; whorls 14, flatly convex ; aperture oblique, ovate ; 

 columellar margin slightl}' concave, truncate below. 



Size: maj. diam. 8'5; length 41-25 mm. 



After very careful comparison with all the specimens in the 

 Blanford and my own collection, I believe this to be a fine, 

 more attenuate example of G. longinpira, and that it really came 

 from the neighbourhood of Darjiling. It is a single specimen, and 

 its presence in Southern India has to be confirmed and the animal 

 examined. 



Glesstjla bactji.it«^a, H. F. Blanford, No. 9-9.iii.l5 B.il. (Plato 

 CLIX. fig. 7.) 



J. A. S. B. xL 1871, p. 43, pL ii. fig. 6. 



Original descri]ition : — " Testa elonr/ato-turriia, gracilis, ieniiis- 

 ciila, oblique striata, fiiseo vel fulvo cornea, epidermide rdtescenle 

 inditta. Spira turrita, apice ohtusidt. Anfractus 13, parum 

 convexi ; inferiores siibcequaUs; sutura impressa, minute denticulata. 

 Apertura obliqua, ovato-triangularis ; peristoma simplex, actum. 

 Columella abrupte arcuata, oblique prodvxta, ad basin verticaUter 

 trnncata. 



" Alt. 38 mm. ; diam. 6-5-7'5 mm. ; aperturse alt. 7, lat. 4 mm. 



" Ccpit Dr. F. Sloliczka apud Kbersiong Himalaya; Sikkinicnsis. 



