62 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



cate. Aperture a little oblique, rounded-oval; peristome un- 

 expanded, very thin. Length 25.5, diam. 6.3 mm., aperture 

 5.5x3.25 mm. (Pfr.). 



Length 36 mm., whorls 14 (Beddome). 



S. India: Nilgiri Mts (Conway Shiplay, type loc.) ; 

 Ariamallays; Shevaroys. 



Achatina shiplayi PPB., Malak. Bl. 1855, p. 169; Novit. 

 Conch, i, p. 82, pi. 22, f. 13, 14; Monogr. iv, 612. HANL. and 

 THEOB., Conch. Ind. pi. 36, f. 9 (juv.). Glessula s., BED- 

 DOME, P. Mai. Soc. vii, 161. Stenogyra (G.) shiplayi NEVTLI,, 

 Handlist p. 168, no. 60. 



''Full grown specimens were very rarely found by me, 

 though young half- and three-quarter grown ones are most 

 abundant on the Nilgiris. This and some other species cer- 

 tainly breed before the shell attains full size or a hardened 

 peristome, as I have taken eggs from such shells. The peris- 

 tome differs much in mature specimens, sometimes being very 

 thick and solid, sometimes quite thin, but, even then, firm, and 

 not breaking or becoming jagged at the touch, which is the 

 sign that the shell has not finished its growth. Full-grown 

 examples of shiplayi are very like tenuispira, but smaller. It 

 also runs nilgirica very closely, but the latter has a stronger 

 sculpture, and is broader at the base." (Bedd.) 



15. G. HEBES ('Blanford' Pfr.). PI. 9, fig. 6. 



Shell subcylindrkj-turrite, thin, pale corneous, translucent, 

 polished, striatulate; spire raised, subcylindric in the lower 

 part, the sides convex towards the obtuse apex; suture im- 

 pressed. Whorls 9 to 101/2, convex, regularly increasing, the 

 last short, about one-fourth to one-fifth the total length. 

 Aperture ovate-oblong, a little oblique; peristome thin; colu- 

 mella very arcuate, obliquely truncate in front. Length 17 

 to 22, diam. 5 mm. ; aperture 4 to 4.5 mm. long, 2.3 to 3 mm. 

 wide. (Blanf.). 



S. India: Deo Grhat, on the south side of Poona (Evizard, 

 type loc.) ; Shevaroys; Pulney Hills, and halfway up the 

 Koonoor Pass, Nilgiris (Nevill). 



Achatina hebes Blanford, PFR., Monogr. Hel. Viv. vi. 1868, 



