138 G. Nevill— JVeto or little-hiown [No. 3, 



figured (probably from the Nilgiris) a good and distinct species, the other 

 from Ceylon a mere variety of St. ceylanica, which may have been sent, 

 or shown, to Dr. Pfeiffer as A. orophila and caused him to unite the two 

 species. I have not myself seen any species of the group, St. nit em, 

 ceylanica, punetogallana &c, from Continental India ; the very distinct 

 St. oreas and pseudoreas are the nearest I know of. Acli. orophila is not 

 mentioned in the Con. Indica. 



Stenogyea (Glessula) amentum, Benson, MS. PL V, Fig. 20 (Copy). 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. 1850, fig. 82, Howrah, as Acliatina amentum, anfr. 8|, long. 

 30, diam. 11 (ex iconej ; Benson, Ann. Mag. 1860, Nerbudda Valley, long. 21 mil. ; 

 Pfeiffer, Mon. Ill, anfr. 9, long. 22, diam. 7 mil. ; Con. Indica, pi. 85, fig. 3. 



Dr. Pfeiffer in his Monogr. Helic. has apparently overlooked Benson's 

 important notice of this species as above quoted. Mr. Hanley's excellent 

 figure of Acli. amentum is doubtless from a Nerbudda Valley specimen, 

 with which it agrees exactly in measurements ; long. 24, diam. 9 mil. ; 

 it appears to be a smaller and slightly different variety from the type 

 Howrah form. I have already recorded that this rare species has also 

 been found at Ganjam by my friend Mr. Valentine Ball of the Geological 

 Survey ; it has not, however, been found again in the immediate vicinity of 

 Calcutta. 



Stenogyea (Glessula) subfusifoemis, Blanford, PI. V, Fig. 13. 

 P. Zool. Soc. 1869, Ponsee in Yunnan at 3300', anfr. 8, long. 17f, diam. 5| mil. 

 I give a figure of the unique type of this very distinct species, for 

 which the Museum is indebted to Dr. J. Anderson's very successful 

 researches during the first Yunnan Expedition. It is the most northerly 

 species of Glessula as yet known, no other species having been described 

 from China or Japan ; there are three or four species known from the 

 Philippines, Borneo, and Sumatra ; in the main, however, the group appears 

 to be essentially an Indo-African one. No species is as yet known from 

 the Andamans, Nicobars, Seychelles, or Mascarene Islands ; evidently 

 Glessula is a continental rather than an insular genus. 



Stenogyea (Glessula) blanfoedlana, G. Nevill, PL V, Fig. 12. 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1877, p. 26, Ponsee in Yunnan. 

 Shell ovately turreted, solid, of a dark brown colour, two apical whorls 

 smooth, the others sculptured with raised, coarse, longitudinal, nearly 

 perpendicular striae, much crowded together and slightly flexuous on the 

 last whorl ; spire turreted, with very obtuse apex and excavated suture ; 

 whorls six, scarcely convex, the last one rounded at base ; aperture vertical, 



