1881.] Mollusca of the Indo- Malayan Fauna. 135 



Buliminus (Cerastus) jickeliantjs, G. Ncvill, PI. VI, Fig. 2. 

 Hand-list, 1878, p. 133, Wadela Plateau, Abyssinia. 



Shell imperforate, or scarcely superficially rimate, elongately oblong, 

 moderately solid, longitudinally subobsoletely and obliquely striate, the 

 striae distinct near the suture and also near the peristome ; spire conically 

 elongate, rather acutely pointed ; whorls 6| or 7, the first 4|- scarcely 

 convex, increasing regularly and slowly, the last two distinctly convex, 

 increasing rapidly, the last one unusually attenuately produced ; aperture 

 somewhat everted, compressed, considerably higher than broad, columella 

 broadly reflected, somewhat oblique. 



Long. 34, diam. 15 ; apert. alt. 15, lat. 10 mil. 



Hab. Wadela Plateau, Abyssinia ; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Type, Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



The dimensions o£ B. olivieri, Pfr., as originally described are — 



Long. 27, diam. 14 ; apert. alt. 14|, lat. 8 mil. 



From this latter species, B. jichelianus can be distinguished by the 

 more pointed spire, less convex whorls, the last one especially being much 

 less globose ; by the more or less obsolete sculpture, more oblique columella, 

 more everted aperture, closed umbilicus, &c. 



Genus Stenogyra, Shuttleworth. 

 Bern. Mitth. 1854 ; type, restr. H. and A. Adams, 1855, Helix calcarea, Born. 



Subgenus Glesstjla, Martens. 



Albers Heliceen, II, 1860, type Achatina gemma, Benson. 



A genus of the family Cioncllida in Pfeiffer's Nomenclator (ed. Clessin), 

 a classification which I consider altogether unjustifiable. I am afraid the 

 group will prove not separable from Subulina, Beck, the type of which 

 is the West Indian Helix octona, Chemnitz, in which case the latter name 

 must have priority. Be this as it may be, Acli. paritura, and involuta, 

 Gould, darnaudi and sennaarensis, Pfr., as well as several other species, all 

 from Africa— both East and West coasts— certainly belong to Glessula. 



Stenogtra (Glessula) oreas, Benson, MS. PI. V, Fig. 11 (Copy). 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. 1850, fig. 113, as Achatina oreas, Nilgiris, long. 15J, diam. 7§ 

 mil., anfr. 7 (ex icone) ; not Ach. oreas, Pfeiffe,r (as of " Benson"), or of Nevill, Hand- 

 list I, p. 168. 



I am indebted to Colonel Beddome for a single specimen of the true 

 St. oreas, from Travancore. Anfr. 7 ; long. 14|, diam. 1\ mil. 



