190 ACHATINELLA FULGENS. 



in the lower half, fading to white above. This dusky tint 

 fades on the following whorl. The last three whorls have a 

 chestnut border below the suture about y 2 of. a millimeter 

 wide. The subsutural furrow bisects this border. The aper- 

 ture and columella are white, exactly as in A. buddii. There 

 is a very small dark area below the columellar reflection 

 which makes it appear perforate, but it is not really so. 

 Length 21, diam. 12.3 mm., with 6*4 whorls. 



In his collection Mr. Gulick selected specimens of buddii 

 having a brown subsutural band and segregated them as fus- 

 cozona. Altogether he had about a dozen, found among per- 

 haps a couple of hundred buddii. They vary in pattern 

 from that of the type of fuscozona to specimens like pi. 36, 

 figs. 7a, 7c, except that they have the sutural band. A few 

 are very small, length 18, diam. 9.5 mm., with 6Vs whorls. 



In one of Mr. Gulick 's lots from Makiki, no. 804 Boston 

 Soc., there is one buddii with a wider sutural band and 

 slightly purplish-brown columellar fold, and four stewartii 

 of unusual pattern, two of them figured in pi. 38, figs. 16, 16a. 

 This is what Mr. Smith described as a long variety of fus- 

 cozona. 



Having examined nearly all the fuscozona ever taken by 

 Gulick, including the type, I am satisfied that Mr. Sykes was 

 right in placing it as a synonym under A. buddii. It has 

 nothing to do with stewartii, except that Mr. Gulick mixed 

 them in one of his lots. 



16. A. FULGENS Newcomb. PL 36, figs. 1 to 6e ; pi. 37, figs. 

 1 to 9 ; pi. 43, figs. 2 to 4c. 



" Shell elongately conic, polished, shining; whorls 6, flatly 

 convex ; suture slightly impressed ; aperture ovate ; columella 

 short, tuberculated ; lip simple, ribbed within ; color rich 

 chestnut-brown, with a broad white sutural fascia cutting the 

 center of the last whorl ; apex and columella white. Length 

 eighteen, diam. eight-twentieths inch.' (Newc.) 



" Var. a, white with broad chestnut bands.' (Newc.). PL 

 29, fig. 24. 



Oahu: Niu (Newcomb) to the Palolo-Manoa ridge; var. 

 versipellis over the range in Kailua. 



