GLESSULA. 415 



397. Glessula blanda, sp. n. 



Shell elongate-conoid, opaque, rather thin, pale yellow, glossy, 

 very finely striated. Spire narrow, scarcely convex ; suture 

 shallow, inarginate ; apex a little obtuse. Whorls 8 j, flattened, 

 increasing slowly at first, the last four rather suddenly, the last 

 whorl equalling in width nearly 3 of the entire length of the 

 shell. Aperture oblique, narrowly obovate, the margins united 

 by a thin callus on the parietal wall : peristome with acute mar- 

 gins ; outer margin scarcely curved, basal margin deeply curved ; 

 columella arcuate, obliquely truncate. 



Length 15-5, diam. 5 mm. ; apert., height 5, width 2-5 mm, 



Fig. 131. Glessula Uanda. 



Hob. India : Anamullays (Beddome). [Type in the British 

 Museum. 



Several specimens without name in the Beddome collection 

 were found to pertain to an undescribed form. The new species 

 somewhat resembles a miniature G. bensoniana, but the outline is 

 a little more cylindrical, the spire is a little more convex, the 

 apex a little more obtuse, the base narrower, while the shell is 

 more glossy and the striae are much finer. 



A single specimen occurs with narrower base and with more 

 convex whorls. Some of the shells are of a very pale yellow, 

 almost approaching white, while several are dark fuscous, and 

 others again pale fuscous and very translucent. 



398. Glessula bensoniana, Pfeiffer. 



Achatina bensoniana^ PfeiflTer, Zeits. Malak. viii, 1851, p. 27 ; ibid., 



Mon. Helic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 494 ; ibid., Conch.-Cab., Bidimus, 



1860, p, 325, pi. 26, figs. 12, 13. 

 Oleacina (Electro,} bensoniana, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, 



p. 105. 

 Achatina (Electro) bensoniana, Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatt. ii, 1856, 



p. 168. 

 Stenoqyra (Glessula) bensoniana, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 167; 



ibid., J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 137, pi. 5, fig. 16. 

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



p. 330 ; Jousseaume, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 1894, p. 293 ; 



Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 167 ; Pilsbry, 



Man. Conch., ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 67, pi. 12, figs. 13, 14. 



Original description: "T. oblongo-subulata, tenuis, vix stria- 

 tula, nitida, subpellucida, i'ulvo-cornea ; spira subturrita, apice 



