70 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



the suture, smooth, polished, dark chestnut with close vertical 

 and horizontal lines of a greyish-yellow color, varying in 

 breadth and resembling the threads of an irregularly woven 

 cloth. Spire elongated, conoidal with convex sides, apex ob- 

 tuse, sutures impressed. Whorls 7, -convex, the last about 

 two-fifths of the entire length, rounded beneath. Aperture 

 vertical, truncately semi-oval, milky within; peristome 

 slightly thickened, white, right margin slightly sinuate 

 towards the base, columella deeply curved, obliquely truncated 

 beneath, margins united by a thin callus. Length 26, diam. 

 13 mm. Aperture 10% mm. long, 7 broad " (Blanf.). 



S. India: Anamullay Hills, 6000 ft, type loc. (Blanf.); 

 Pulney Hills (Fairbank) ; Tinnevelly and Travancore Ghats 

 (Beddome). 



Achatina textilis BLANF., J. A. S. B. xxxv, 1866, p. 41. 

 Conch. Ind., pi. 17, f . 10. PFR., Monogr. vi, 220. Glessula t. f 

 BEDDOME, I. c., p. 163. 8. (G.) textilis NEVILL, Handlist p. 

 168. 



" This is the only indigenous Indian Achatina with which 

 I am acquainted possessing colored markings. In form it 

 approaches some of the Ceylon Achatina, and also an unde- 

 scribed Deccan species'* (Blanf.). 



11 Varies in diameter from 10 to 14 mm. I have specimens 

 from the Tinnevelly Ghats in which the textile coloring is 

 reduced to a single narrow band on each of the three lower 

 whorls, or is entirely obsolete " (Beddome}. 



Besides the numerous reddish lines and bands on a pale- 

 yellow ground, it is sometimes sprinkled with buff dots. A 

 small specimen from the Pulney Hills figured measures, 

 length 21, diam. 9.9, length of aperture 9.8 mm. (fig. 7). 



28. G. SENATOR (Hanley). PL 11, fig. 8. 



Shell subovate-conoid, sometimes narrower, thin, glossy, 

 smooth; chocolate, conspicuously ornamented with a yellow- 

 ish or pale stripe. Whorls convex, much wider than high 

 (6% in an imperfect example), rapidly increasing, marked 

 below the deeply-impressed suture with a very narrow band 

 and above it with a wide one, which continues on the last 



