64 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



S. India: Mahableshwar Mts. (Rev. S. B. Fairbank). 



Achatina fairbanki BENS., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), 

 xv, Jan. 1865, p. 14. PFR., Monogr. vi, 232. HANLEY & 

 THEOB., Conch. Ind. pi. 18, f. 3. 



"The nearest Nilgiri form is A. corrosula Pfr. The more 

 cylindrical form below, the sculpture, shorter whorls etc., 

 safely distinguished it " (Bens.). 



Col. Beddome considers fairbanki doubtfully distinct from 

 G. hebes. Both were based upon shells not fully mature. 



17. G. VADALICA (Benson). PL 9, fig. 11. 



Shell turrite-elongate, striatulate, rather solid, polished, 

 translucent, buff-corneous; spire a little convexly turrite to- 

 wards the apex; apex rather obtuse; suture impressed. 

 Whorls 11, convex, short, the upper ones rib-striate, last 

 whorl rounded below, scarcely one-fourth the total length. 

 Aperture slightly oblique, elliptical-ovate, margins joined 

 by a callus, columellar margin slightly arcuate, whitish, ob- 

 liquely truncate, basal and right margins thin. Length 34, 

 diam. 9, aperture 8x5 mm. (Bens.). 



India: Wadale, near Ahmednugger (Fairbank). 



Achatina vadalica BENS., Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), xv, Jan. 

 1865, p. 15. PFR., Monogr. vi, 229. HANL. and THEOB., 

 Conch. Ind. pi. 35, f. 5. 



' ' The convex sides of the upper part of the spire, the 

 shorter whorls, with the sculpture and polish of the shell, dis- 

 tinguish it as well from the Nilgiri A. perrotteti as from the 

 neighbouring A. notigena, which has an attenuate spire and 

 costulate sculpture in all the whorls. The Liberian A. clavus 

 Pfr., is a broader shell, with longer and wider whorls." 

 (Benson.) 



18. G. TAMULICA (Blanford). PI. 9, fig. 12. 



"Shell turrite, thin, glossy, corneous, striatulate; spire 

 regularly tapering, the apex obtuse ; whorls 10, convex, the 

 last slightly more than one-fourth the total length, rounded; 

 columella strongly arcuate, obliquely truncate. Aperture a 

 little oblique, suboval, peristome simple, thin, the margins 

 joined by a very thin callus. Length 20, diam. 6, aperture 

 5.8x3 mm." (Blanf.). 



