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whorl a little above the middle. Spire about half the total 

 length, apex paler, obtuse. Columella short, paler, arcuate, 

 broadly truncate. Length 1 inch (Hani.). 



Southern India, Cottyam Hills, collections of Beddome 

 and Me Andrew (Hanley) ; Peermede Hills, Travancore (Bed- 

 dome). 



Achatina (Glessula) senator HANL., P. Z. S., 1875, p. 606; 

 Conch. Indica, pi. 155, f . 4. G. s., BEDDOME, 1. c., p. 163. 



Only four specimens are known to me, all from the Cottyam 

 Hills ; two are young and rather narrow in proportion to the 

 fine but broken-lipped example I have described, which once 

 belonged to the celebrated Indian eonchologist W. Benson " 

 (Hanley) . 



' ' Only differs from the last two species in its beautiful col- 

 oration ' ' (Beddome ) . 



29. G. isis (Hanley). PL 11, fig. 9. 



Shell subcylindric, smooth, thin, very glossy, whitish or 

 pale, sometimes with a narrow tawny band, and encircled by 

 close, very narrow 'tawny lines; the band generally placed 

 towards the base of the upper whorls and above the middle of 

 the last one. Whorls about 10, convex, gradually increasing, 

 obsoletely subcrenulated below the deep suture, and all but 

 the last whorl are much wider than high; apex obtuse. 

 Aperture narrow, slightly more than one-fourth the total 

 length. Columella short, arcuate, obliquely twisted-truncate. 

 Length 1%, width two-seventh inch [ca. 33 x 7.14 mm.] (Han- 

 ley). 



S. India: Foot of the Pulney Hills (Fairbank, Beddome). 



Achatina (Glessula) isis HANL. P. Z. S., 1875, p. 606; 

 Conch. Indica, p. 62, pi. 155, f. 5. PFR., Monogr., viii, 616. 

 Glessula i, BEDDOME, 1. c., p. 163. 



" Much the coloring of textilis, but the shell is very dif- 

 ferent in form, being elongated and narrow " (Beddome). 



30. G. SUBPERROTTETI Beddome. PI. 8, figs. 1, 2. 



Shell ovate-turrite, tapering above, very glossy, lightly 

 plicate-striate, fulvous-corneous; spire turrite, attenuate 



