GLESSULA. 439 



" A pretty little species, darker in colour than any of its allies, 

 except perhaps A. gemma, Bens., and easily distinguished from all 

 by the columella being more arcuate, also by its more acuminate 

 spire and blunted apex, and its much stronger sculpture." (Elan- 

 ford.} 



The species is also allied to sattaraensis, but the base is pro- 

 portionately broader, the shell is more shining, and the striae are 

 less prominent. 



Pilsbry figures a specimen which slightly exceeds Blanford's 

 measurements, being 8'9 mm. in length, diarn. 3*9, longest axis of 

 aperture 3mm.; whorls 6J. The apex is smooth; the rest of 

 the shell is closely and rather deeply but irregularly striate, and 

 very glossy. 



Pour specimens from Pegu, in the Beddome collection, measure : 

 length 6'5, diam. 7'5 mm. 



433. Glessula brevis, Pfeiffer. 



Achatina brevis, Pfeiffer, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 387 ; ibid., Mon. Helic. 



Viv. vi, 1868, p. 227. 

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



pi. 18, fig. 10. 

 Stenogyra (Glessula) brevis, as of Blanford, Nevill, Hand List, i, 



1878, p. 166. 

 Glessula brevis, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nornencl. Helic. Viv. 1881, 



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



Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 85, pi. 13, fig. 13. 



Original description : " T. conico-ovata, tenuis, pellucida, 

 f ulvo-cornea ; spira conica, apice obtusulo ; anfr. 6, modice con- 

 vexi, striis a sutura descendentibus deorsum evanescentibus dis- 

 tiucte sculpti, ultimus spira paulo brevior, rotundatus ; columella 

 antrorsum torta, fere horizon taliter truncata ; apertnra fere 

 verticalis, sinuato-ovalis ; perist. simplex, tenue. 



" Long. 8-9, diam. 5-5J mill." (Pfeiffer.) 



Hob. India : Ahmednuggar ; Poona (Blanford) ; Jeypore Hills 

 (Beddome). 



Beddome observes that Hanley's figure is too broad towards 

 the base, and does not show the sculpture, which is peculiar. 

 He also states that his Jeypore specimens were named microsculpta 

 MS., by Nevill, but he could not see how they differed from 

 brevis. It is unfortunate, I consider, that he burdened literature 

 with another MS. name. 



In the Cuming collection I found four specimens accom- 

 panied by a label in Pfeiffer's handwriting; they consist of 6| 

 whorls and measure 11-75 mm. in length and 6 mm. in diameter. 

 The Beddome collection also contains three shells from Poona, 

 which agree fairly well with the type. 



