GLESSULA. 401 



curved, basal margin arcuate, columella truncate, slightly curving 

 forward. 



Length 33 - 5, diam. 13 mm. ; apert. 12 mm. high, 5 rum. wide. 



Hob. Ceylon. Type in the British Museum. 



This species is based upon a single specimen presented to the 

 British Museum in 1907 by Mr. H. B. Preston. Its nearest ally 

 is G. pollens, but it may readily be separated from that species 

 since the spire is less conoid, the whorls are less convex, fewer in 

 number, and increase more rapidly, the striae are less prominent 

 and more crowded, while finally the suture is quite different, being 

 very shallow and margined. 



375. Glessula bollampattiana, Hanley (em.). 



Achatina botttimpotana (Beddome), Hanley & Theobald, Conch. 



Ind. 1876, pi. 156, fig. 1. 

 Stenogyra (Glessula} bottampotana, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, 



p. 168. 

 Stenociyra (Glessula) bollampattiana, (em.) Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 



1881, p. 139. 

 Glessula bottampotana, Jousseaume, M<m. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 



1894, p. 293 ; Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 74, pi. 11 



fig. 12. 

 Glessula bolumpattiana, Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 



1906, p. 165. 



Shell ovate-conoid, rather solid, opaque, scarcely shining, finely 

 and closely costulate-striate, the stria3 cut into minute granules 

 by intersecting fine wavy spirals, varying from greenish corneous 

 to dark fuscous. Spire conoid, with straight sides ; suture 

 shallow, margined ; apex acute. Whorls 7|-8, flattened, increasing 

 slowly at first, the last two rather suddenly, the last whorl 

 equalling g the entire length of the shell. Aperture little oblique, 

 obovate, the margins united by a distinct callus on the parietal 

 wall ; peristome thickened, outer margin slightly curved, basal 

 margin arcuate, slightly curving forward ; columella deeply arcuate, 

 obliquely truncate. 



Length 22-25, diam. 9'5-10'5 mm.; apert. height 9, width 

 3-8 mm. 



Hab. India: Palghat Hills, Madras ; Bollampatty Hill (Beddome). 



Readily distinguished from all its allies by the finely decussate 

 sculpture, the costulse being cut into granules by the spirals, 



The name of this species has been variously spelt by different 

 authors. The one originally given by Hanley was due to a 

 misreading of the label, and in the amended form it was published 

 in 1881 by Nevill, who stated that Colonel Beddome informed 

 him that it is found on the Bollampatty Hill, near Coimbatore, at 

 7000 ft., and that the name should be spelt as now given. 



The species has never been described and I have drawn up the 

 foregoing diagnosis from a shell in the Beddome collection which 

 agrees fairly with Hanley 's figure. 



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