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shallow suture. It resembles G. subperrotteti, but is more 

 polished, the suture is not margined, and the base is narrower. 



Some specimens from the Nilgiris in the Beddome collection 

 were labelled G. facula, but I refer them without hesitation to 

 G. botellus ; one composed of 7J whorls, measures 19-5 x 8 rum. 

 Three shells from Pegu, in the Theobald collection, are composed 

 of seven whorls, and measure 16x7 mm. 



409. Glessula orophila, Reeve. 



Achatina orophila (Benson), Reeve, Conch. Icon, v, 1849, Achatina, 



pi. 19, fig. 105 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 493 (as 



synonym of A. ceylanica, Pfr.) ; Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, v, 



I860, p. 465. 

 Oleacina (Electro) orophila, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, 



p. 106. 

 Cionella ( Glessula) orophila, von Martens, Die Heliceen, ed. 2, 1860, 



p. 254. 

 Stenogi/ra (Glessula) orophila, Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 137, 



pi. 5, fig. 19. 

 Glessula orophila. Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, 



p. 168; Pliably, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 79, pi. 10, 



fig. 10. 



Original description: "Shell conically ovate, spire acuminated, 

 sutures impressed, whorls seven in number, rounded, peculiarly 

 obscurely indented, columella short, deeply arched and truncated, 

 aperture rather small ; olive-horn. 



" Distinguished by the deeply arched curvature of the columella, 

 and by the whorls being rather more numerous than is usual in 

 species of this form." (Reeve.} 



Hub. India : Mahableshwar, Anamullays, and S. Canara (Bed- 

 dome}. Burma : Pegu (Theobald}. 



No measurements are given by Reeve, but three specimens from 

 Mahableshwar, in the Beddome collection, possessing 7| whorls, 

 measure 18x9'5 mm.; the same collection contains numerous 

 shells from South Cauara and the Anamullays, composed of eight 

 whorls, and measuring 18x9 mm. The Theobald collection com- 

 prises five shells from Pegu, one of which has nine whorls and 

 measures : length 21*75 mm., diameter 10 mm. 



Many of the specimens I have seen distinctly show incised lines, 

 evenly spaced. 



410. Glessula arthuri, Benson. 



Achatina arthuri, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xiii, 1864, p. 209 ; 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 224. 

 Achatina (Electra) arthuri, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, 



pi. 36, tig. 3. 

 Stenoyyra (Glessula) arthuri, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 167. 



