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not the grime locality. They are ahout the same size, and had been 

 labelled G. teniiisporat by Klanford, but they are not like the 

 Teria Ghat examples wilh ^vllich 1 have compared them. 



Glessula (RisnRTiA?) s.vRrssA, Bs., var. No. 3566 li.il. 



Locality. liarowli Gorge, Durrang District, Assam {Godwin- 

 Austen). 



Shell as in hist; sculpture indistinct, fine longitudinal ribs 

 follow below the suture; colour pale dull ochraceous, two closely 

 )iarallel whitish bands below the suture ; suture impressed; whorls 

 8, regularly increasing : cnlumelliir margin concave. 



Size: niaj. diain. 6'0 : length IG'25 mm. 



Only a single specimen. 



Glessula (Hishf.tia ?) saeissa, Bs., var. 



From Koliaghur, Granite Tila, near Tezpur, on the left bank of 

 the Bralimaputra, a single specimen very close to this species was 

 found by me ; smooth, with little sculpture. No. '.i'tiJS B M 

 (Plate CLXI. fig. 8.) 



Apex (PI. CLXITI. fig. 19). 



From Gowhathi (No. 3383 B.;^[.), two specimens, the apex is yet 

 more acuminate (vide PI. CLXtll. fig. 17), but there is little 

 difference to be noted in the general shape. 



Glessula subhebes, Nevill MS., n. sp. (Plate CLXI fi" 6 ■ 

 Plate CLXIV. apex, fig. 1.) 



Local! fi/. Pichola nulla, Dafla Hills. No. 1618 B.M. Type. 

 Five examples {Godwin- Austen). No. 3341 B.M., Dafla, typical. 



Shell oblong turreted, thin, smooth, glassy; sculpture: rather 

 distant and fine striation, slight tendency to crenulation at suture ; 

 colour very pale ochraceous ; spire long, sides slightly convex, apex 

 blunt, 3 first whorls nearly equal; suture impressed ; whorls 10, 

 with well-marked flat convexity ; aperture narrowly ovate ; 

 columella with a very slight curve downward. 



Size : maj. diam. 5-0 ; length 15-75 mm. 



From the eggs in tube containing shells it is oviparous. 



This siiecies is entered by Nevill in the interleaved copy (facing 

 ]i. 167) he left to me shortly before his death, from the above 

 locality. He gives the dimensions of a specimen in the Indian 

 Museum which he received from me : " 15^ x 5 mm., anf'r. 0." 



It is the Achatina {Glessula) liehes in my paper on the Helicidae 

 of the Dafia Hills (Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlv. pt. 2, 1876, 

 p. 315), and was a common shell. 



Very fortunately I have received from the Indian Museum, for 

 which I have to thank Dr. N. Annandale, the specimens of Glessula 

 included under No. 80 of Nevill's ' Hand-list,' i. p. 170. They 

 comprise ten glass-tubes, numbered : — 



