GLESSULA. 383 



" Long. 17, diam. 5 mill. Ap. oblique 4\ longa, 2f lata." 

 (Pfeiffer.) 



Hab. India : Deo Ghat, Poona (Evezard) ; Shevroy Hills 

 (Beddome) ; Dana Hills (Godwin-Austen) ; Pulney Hills (Fair- 

 bank)^ Koonoor Pass (Nevill) ; Mahableshwar (Beddome). 



"When first described by Pfeiffer he was unaware of the habitat 

 of the species, although the specimens were forwarded direct to 

 Cuming by Major Evezard. Two years after Blanford again 

 described the species, and, as his diagnosis is based on better and 

 more ample material, I append it. 



" Testa sub-cylindrico turrita, tennis, pallido-cornea, translucens, 

 polita, striatula; spira elevata, subtus sub-cylindrica, latetibus 

 versus apicem obtusum convexis ; sutura impressa. Anfr. 9-10^ 

 convexi, regulariter crescentes, ultimus brevis, | I- longitudinis 

 subaequans. Apertura ovato-oblongo, parum obliqua ; peristoma 

 tenue ; columella valde arcuata, antice oblique truncata. 



" Long. 17-22, diam. 5 mill. Ap. 4-4| longa, 2-3 lata. 



" The nearest ally to this species appears to be G. tamulica, "W. 

 and H. Blanf., from near Trichonopoli, which is distinguished 

 by greater diameter in proportion to the length, and a more 

 regularly tapering spire. Intermediate forms may hereafter be 

 found, however. 



" A specimen from the Shevroy Hills, near Salem in Southern 

 India, sent to me by Major Beddome, only differs from G. hebes in 

 being longer and slightly more attenuate towards the apex. It 

 has 13 whorls." (Blanford.) 



Beddome expressed considerable doubt as to its distinctness 

 from G. fairbanki, stating that all the specimens of G. hebes he had 

 seen were young, with unformed lip. He adds : " 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 Shevroys 

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

 appear rather to belong to fairbanki, if that species is distinct, 



which I doubt Hanley's figure of hebes has the tapering 



apex of young shiplayi and is unlike my type of hebes." 



Glessula hebes has the whorls more narrowly coiled than fair- 

 banki ; other differences are indicated under the latter. The 

 figure given by Blant'ord is rather poor, the striae being more pro- 

 nounced. Two specimens from the Shevroy Hills, in the Beddome 

 collection, possess 9 whorls, one measures only 12 mm. and the 

 other 13 mm. 



349. Grlessula fairbanki, Benson. 



Achatina fairbanki, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xv, 1805, p. 14 : 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 232. 

 Achatina (Electr a) fairbanki, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, 



pi. 18, fig. 3. 



