GLESSULA. 437 



Bab. India : Courtallum, Tinnevelly (Beddome). Type iu the 

 British Museum. 



This new species is nearly allied to G. pusilla, Beddome, but is 

 more cylindrical, with more narrowly coiled whorls, a narrower 

 base, and a narrower aperture. Several shells were found in the 

 Beddome collection, labelled G. courtallica, a name which has 

 never been published. The type has the periostracum of a milky 

 hue, the result, probably, of exposure, since the other specimens 

 are all of a dark fulvous colour. These, however, only possess 

 from 5 to 5^ whorls. One specimen, with the last whorl broken, 

 is composed of 7 whorls and measures 7 mm. in length. 



430. Glessula mullorum, Blanford. 



Achatina mullorum, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 362, pi. 1, 



tig. 17; Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 228 ; Hanley 



& Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1875, pi. 102, fig. 5. 

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

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



p. 331 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 171 ; 



Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 84, pi. 13, fig. 10. 



Original description : " Testa turrito-oblonga, solidiuscula, 

 pallide cornea, diaphana, subremote leviter striata ; spira turrita, 

 apice obtusa, sutura impressa. Anfr. 6 convexi ; ultimus ^ longi- 

 tudinis subsequans, basi rotundatus. Columella brevis, arcuata, 

 vix callosa, oblique truncata. Apertura fere semicircularis, verti- 

 calis ; peristoma rectum, obtusum, marginibus callo tenui junctis. 



" Long. 7j, diam. vix 4 mm. Ap. 2| alta, If lata." (Blanford.) 



Hal). India : Madras (Blanford). 



" This is one of the group of small Indian Achatinas comprising 

 A. gemma, Bens., and A. scrutillus, B. From these two shells the 

 present species is distinguished by its conical spire with straight 

 and not convex sides, its paler colour and sculpture. Both 

 varieties were found abundantly crawling on banks, in a garden 

 at Nungumbaukuin, a suburb of Madras." (Blanford.) 



The two varieties to which Blanford refers are the type and a 

 form he records as " var. a. anf ractus ultimus nitidior, tumidior," 

 but does not name. 



431. Glessula blanfordiana, Nevill. 



Glessula blanfordiana, Nevill, J. A. S. B. xlvi, 1877, p. 26 ; ibid., 

 in Anderson, Zool. Res. Exp. W. Yunnan, i, 1878, Mollusca, 

 p. 886 ; Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vii, 1906, p. 171 ; 

 Pilsbry, Man. Couch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 98, pi. 13, fig. 11. 



Stenoffyra (Glessula) blanfordiana, Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, 

 p. 188, pi. 5, fig. 12. 



"Shell ovately turreted, solid, of a dark brown colour, two 

 apical whorls smooth, the others sculptured with raised, coarse, 

 longitudinal, nearly perpendicular striae, much crowded together 



