GLESSULA. 417 



having a Darrower base and more acute apex, a more slender spire, 

 more closely coiled whorls and a subangular periphery. A second 

 specimen has the aperture a little higher and is fuscous above 

 the periphery, dark chestnut below it. A third specimen is 

 greenish corneous, with a yellowish subsutural band, which widens 

 at the penultimate and reaches the periphery on the last whorl. 



400. Glessula travancorica, sp. n. 



Shell elongate-conoid, thin, translucent, fuscous corneous, 

 glossy, very finely and rather regularly striated, the striae flexuous 

 near the upper suture, while under a strong lens very dense spiral 

 sculpture may be detected. Spire narrow, with straight sides ; 

 suture impressed, margined ; apex acute, prominent. "Whorls 8|, 

 slightly convex, increasing slowly and regularly at first, the last 

 three rather suddenly, the last whorl equalling in width f- of the 

 entire length of the shell. Aperture oblique, semi-ovate ; peri- 

 stome acute, the margins united by a thin callus on the parietal 



Fig. 133. Glessula travancorica. 



wall : outer margin slightly curved, basal margin arcuate ; colu- 

 mella slightly curved, obliquely truncate. 



Length 14, diam. 4*75 mm. ; apert. : height 4*5, width 2 mm. 



Hab. India: Peermede, Travancore (Beddome). Type in the 

 British Museum. 



This new species resembles a miniature G. tinnevellica, but apart 

 from its much smaller size, the whorls are more convex and more 

 closely coiled, and the last whorl is less tumid. It is also thinner 

 and more translucent. Only four specimens were found in the 

 Beddome collection, two of which are a trifle more conoid than 

 the type, measuring 12 x 5 mm. and 11*5 x 4*75 mm. respectively. 



401. Glessula jeyporensis, Beddome. 



Glessula jey 2)0 rensis, Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, 



p. 167, pi. 15, fig. 6. 

 Glessula subserena, Pilshry (non Beddome), Man. Conch, ser. 2, 



xx, 1909, p. 75, pi. 8, figs. 11, 12. 



Original description : " Testa oblongo-turrita, tenuis, striatula, 

 nitida, luteo-cornea ; spira subturrita, ad apicem obtusa ; sutura 



2E 



