424 



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

 p. 330 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 168 ; 

 Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 79, pi. 10, fig. 7 (as 

 synonym of G. orophila). 



Original description : " A. testa ovato-conica, irregulariter 

 plicato-striata, luteo-fulva, polita, translucente; spira ovato-conica, 

 apice obtuso, sutura impressa ; anfractibus 7-J-, convexiusculis, 

 prope suturam subcrenulatis ; apertura subvertioali, elliptico- 

 ovata ; peristomate crassiusculo, callo parietal! infra albido ; 

 margiue columellari oblique truncato. 



" Long. 19, diain. 10, apert. long. 8 mill/' (Benson.) 



Hab. India : JS'eher, Mahableshwar (A. E. Benson, FairbanJc, 

 Blanford). 



Beddome believed this species to be identical with G. orophila, 

 and Pilsbry placed it under the synonymy of the latter, but, 

 although closely allied, I consider the two sufficiently distinct, 

 being readily distinguished from G. oripliila by the absence of im- 

 pressed transverse striae, in being costulate-striate and less shining. 

 I have seen two shells from Mahableshwar in Major Peile's col- 

 lection, while a single specimen, without habitat, in the Theobald 

 collection, possesses eight whorls and measures : length 22 mm., 

 diam. 12 mm. ; it accords well with Blanford's description and 

 Hanley's figure. No habitat was recorded. There were besides 

 several other shells labelled " arthuri" but these all pertain to 

 orophila. 



411. Glessula oreas, Reeve. 



Acliatina oreas (Benson), Reeve, Conch. Icon. v ? 1850, Aclmtma, 



pi. 21, tig. 113 ; Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, v, I860, p. 464. 

 Oleacina (Electro) oreas, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, p. 105. 

 Electra oreas, Frauenfeld, Verb. K.K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. xix, 1869, 



p. 873. 

 Achatina (Electra) oreas. Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1874, 



p. 33, pi. 78, fig. 9. 

 Stenogyra (Glesnula) oreas, Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881. p. 135, pi. 5, 



fig. 11. 

 Glessula oreas, Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, \ii, 1906, 



p. 169 ; Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 80, pi. 10, 



fig. 11. 



Original description : " Shell oblong-conical, whorls seven in 

 number, convex, finely margined at the sutures, longitudinally 

 obscurely impressly striated, columella arched, aperture small ; 

 brown horny." (Reeve.} 



The following dimensions are given by Nevill (J. A. S. B. 1, 

 p. 135) from a Travancore specimen he received from Beddome : 

 "Long. 14J, diam. 7j mill." 



Hob. India : Nilgiri Hills (Jerdoii) ; Tinnevelly and Travan- 



