GLESSULA. 395 



Hob. India : South Canara Ghats (Kudra Mukh). 



"In its blunt oblong spire it resembles the large form of 

 amentum as figured by Hanley. It is a beautifully sculptured 

 shell."' (Beddome.) 



The species is somewhat variable in the length of spire for 

 some shells in the Beddome collection, with a diameter of 

 9'5 mm., measure 25 mm. in length, while others with the same 

 diameter only attain 213-5 mm. 



367. Glessula anamullica, Blanford. 



Achatina anamullica, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxv, 1866, p. 37 ; 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 223. 

 Glessula anamullica, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 1881, 



p. 329 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soo. London, vii, 1906, p. 164 ; 



Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 72. 



Original deselection : -"Shell turrito-ovate, thin, finely striated, 

 horny with high vitreous lustre. Spire turrited, sides convex, 

 apex obtuse, suture impressed. Whorls 8, scarcely convex, the 

 last rounded beneath. Aperture oblique, peristome thin, 

 columella moderately arcuate, obliquely truncated below. 



"Length 27, diam. 12 millim. Aperture 10 millimetres high, 

 6| broad." (Blanford.) 



Hob. India : Anarnullay Hills and Travancore Hills (Beddome). 



u Intermediate in character between A. nilagarica, Bens, and 

 the oblong ovate Acliatina of Ceylon." (Blanford.) 



"Though a good many of this fine dark chocolate -coloured 

 species were taken, none of them had a firm lip, and though eggs 

 taken from some of them, they are probably not full-grown. It 

 is not very like any one species, the nearest to it being per-rotteti." 

 (Beddome.) 



Two specimens in the Hungerford collection in the British 

 Museum are pale corneous, opaque, with narrow spiral bands ; 

 while possessing, like the type, eight whorls, they only measure 

 26'SxlO'S mm. Some Travancore specimens, presented in 1906 

 to the British Museum by the late Colonel Boddome, have the 

 peristome very thin ; they consist of 7^ whorls, the largest 

 measuring only 24x10 mm. The Beddome collection further 

 contains shells, also from Travancore, composed of eight whorls, 

 and which only measure 26 x 10*5 mm. 



368. Glessula inornata, Pfeiffer. 



Achatina inornata, Pfeiffer, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 259 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. 



Helic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 490 ; ibid., Conch.-Cab., Bulimus, I860, 



p. 322, pi. 26, figs. 8, 9 ; pi. 37, figs. 1, 2 (var.). 

 Okacina (Electra) inornata, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, 



p. 105. 

 Achatina (Electra) inornata, Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatt. ii, 1856, p. 168 ; 



Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1872, pi. 17, fig. 2, var. fig. 3. 

 Stenogyra (Glessula) inornata, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 171. 



