80 GLESSULA, PENINSULAR INDIA. 



lus whitish; columellar margin obliquely truncate. Length 

 19, diam. 10, aperture 8 mm." (Benson). 



44. G. OBEAS (' Benson ' Reeve). PI. 10, fig. 11. 



Shell oblong-conical; whorls 7, convex, finely margined at 

 the sutures, longitudinally obscurely impressed striate, col- 

 umella arched, aperture small, brown-horny (Reeve). 



Length 14.5, diam. 7.25 mm., whorls 7 (Nevill). 



Nilgiris (Jerdon, type loc.), foot of the Koonoor Pass 

 (Nevill); Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills; South Canara 

 Ghats; Nallaymallays, Kurnool (Beddome). 



Achatina oreas Benson MS., REEVE, Conch. Icon., v, pi. 21, 

 fig. 113, March 1850. Stenogyra (Glessula) oreas NEVILL, J. 

 A. S. B., vol. 50, 1881, p. 135. Glessula o., BEDDOME, P. Mai. 

 Soc. Lond., vii, 169. (Not A. oreas Pfr.) 



45.* G. PSEUDOREAS (Nevill), pi. 10, figs. 12, 13. 



Shell subturrite-ovate, thin, smooth, slightly shining, 

 brown-corneous; spire turrite-conic, the apex obtuse; suture 

 submarginate, impressed. Whorls 7, a trifle convex, the last 

 about two-fifths the total length, rounded at the base; colu- 

 mella very deeply arcuate, white-calloused, obliquely truncate 

 above the base of the elliptic-semioval aperture; peristome 

 unexpanded, acute, the right margin lightly arcuate. Length 

 12.5, diam. 5, aperture 5x2.5 mm. (Pfr.). 



Length 11, diam. scarcely 5 mm., whorls 6 (Nevill). 



Nilgiris (type loc., Jerdon, Blanford) ; S. Canara Ghats; 

 Anamullays; Pulney Hills; Tinnevelly Hills (Beddome). 



Achatina oreas Benson, PFR., Monographia Heliceorum Vi- 

 ventium, iii, 1853, p. 495 (exclusive of reference to Reeve) ; 

 Conchyl. Cab., p. 312, pi. 25, f. 8, 9. Not A. oreas Reeve, 

 1850. Stenogyra (Glessula) pseudoreas NEVILL, J. A. S. B., 

 vol. 50, 1881. p. 136. G. pseudoreas BEDDOME, Proc. Malac. 

 Soc. Lond., vii, p. 169. 



Var. subdeshayesiana Nevill. Whorls 6, length 11, diam. 

 4.25 mm. Type var. from the Anamullays, coll. Col. Bed- 

 dome; also from the Pulney Hills, coll. Rev. Fairbank (G. 

 Nevill) . 



