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first three whorls nearly same diameter ; suture impressed ; wliorls 

 12, flatly convex, body whorl and aperture ^ of total length ; 

 aperture ovate, small ; peristome thin ; columelja sharply curved, 

 truncate. 



Size (Damsang) : maj. diam. 5-5 ; length 24"75 mm. 

 (Kissom) : „ 57 „ 30-00 „ 



This is close to G. baculina, but the whorls are not so flat as in 

 thac species, and it is very much smaller. 



GtEssui.A (Eishetia) EissriMENsi.s, n. sp. (Plate CLIX. fig. 6 

 of a Damsang shell.) No. 3570 B.M. 



Locality. Rissom Peak and Damsang, east of the Teesta Valley 

 ( ir. liohert). 



Shell elongately turreted ; sculpture: close irregular striation 

 well marked; colour dull white with a pale ochre tint; spire: 

 a|iex blunt and rounded, sides nearly straight ; suture impressed ; 

 whorls 10, the embryonic large and rounded smooth, sides tlatly 

 eon vex; aperture ovate; outer lip with a good deal of convexity ; 

 coli.mellar margin very slightly convex. 



Size (Rissom Peak) : maj. diam. 6-25 ; alt. axis 24'5 mm. 



I have this preserved in spirit ; the animal is pale coloured 

 throughout. The specimens are not fully grown, the larger a)iex 

 distinguishes it at once from G. baculina. It apjuoaches 

 G. harnntttiensis of the Dafla Hills, but the apex of that shell is 

 finer, the embryonic whorls being closer together. Specimens 

 were also obtained on Rissom Peak. 



Glessula (Eishetia) hastula, Benson. (880.06.1.1.) (Plate CLXI. 

 fig. 16); (No. 16.9.iii.lo B.M.) (Plate CLXI. fig. 17); (for apex 

 enlarged, Plate CLXIII. figs. 9, 9 a, 10.) 



Achatina hastula, Benson, A. 31. N. H. ser. 3, vol. 5 (1860) p. 461. 



Original description : — " Testa turrito-suhulata, tenui, ohliqve 

 (■<ipiUaceo-striata,fasco-cornea, niiidula; sjrira sulndata, apice obtimo, 

 sidura i^rofundiuscula ; anfractibus 9, primis conve.vis, posiremis 

 convexiuscidis, ultimo -f testce attiiigeute ; apertura vix obliqua, 

 orato-elliptica, peristomalis marginibus caUo, tenui jimctis, dextraii 

 recto acuta columellari arcuato calloso albido, basi oblique truncata. 



" Long. 124, diam. SJ mill. ; long, apert. S,' mill. 



" Habitat ad Pankabari, prope DarjUing, raro. Teste W. T. 

 Blant. 



" Of a more slender form than the large Ach. tenuispira, B., the 

 whorls increasing very gradually, and not attenuate towards 

 tlie upper part of the spire as in that species." 



This species was originally found by W. T. Blanford at Puukabari 

 at the foot of the Darjiling Hills. 



It has been recorded by Theobald and Stoliczka as occurring in 

 Lurma, Kumah Hill and Mail, Sandway District, Arakan (repeated 



