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moderately impressed; whorls 6% rather convex; columellar 

 fold central, white or rose, strongly developed aperture trun- 

 cately auriform, white within; peristome thickened within; 

 with external margin unreflected, arcuate, acute ; columellar 

 margin dilated, adnate ; parietal margin wanting. Length 

 21%, breadth 12. Length of body whorl 15 mm. Average 

 weight 8.6 grains. 



' ' Station : On the kukui and other trees. Habitat : Palolo, 

 Waialae, Wailupe and Niu, Oahu. J. T. G. 



"Var. 6, With oblique reddish-brown streaks above, the 

 base green or yellow. Var. c, Yellowish or green throughout, 

 excepting the bands. Var. d, White at the base, and also 

 above. Var. e, Covered with oblique reddish-brown streaks. 

 Var. /, Apex tipped with black, passing into A. ~buddii Newc. 

 Var. g, Green or yellow, except the black bands, and a narrow 

 line of white. Var. h, White, with several fine spiral black 

 lines accompanying the broader bands. Var. i, With black 

 bands very broad, occupying half the surface or more. Var. 

 j, With two black bands, one sutural, the other passing above 

 the suture. Var. k, With two black bands, one sutural, the 

 other entering the aperture ; rare. Var. I, With several nar- 

 row bands on the upper part of the whorls. 



' ' Remarks : Dextral specimens of this species are very rare ; 

 I have obtained but two. Varieties j and k have been found 

 only in Palolo. As in the preceding species, the specimens 

 found in Niu are of the lighter colored varieties, and more 

 solid than those of the other valleys.' (Gulick). 



1 ' Achatinella augusta Smith. Shell sinistral, ovate-conic, 

 glossy, striated with very fine growth and transverse lines; 

 green, streaked with darker green and encircled by dark green 

 and rufous lines, ornamented with a yellow zone below the 

 white suture ; suture distinctly margined with white ; whorls 

 6i/2, the first four a little convex, the rest convex; aperture 

 white, peristome thin, tinted with pale brown within; colu- 

 mellar fold strong, brownish rose color. Length 24, diam. 

 mm. 



"Var. Shell all yellow, encircled below the suture with a 

 white zone. 



' ' Station : on trees. Habitat : the metropolis of this species 

 is Waialae, near the east end of Oahu. It is also found in 

 Wailupe and Palolo. Affinities: This species is on the one 

 hand closely related to A. plumata Gk., from which it is dis- 

 tinguished by its green and yellow epidermis, which is en- 

 tirely wanting in that species, and to A. fulgens Newc., from 

 which it differs in being without the broad black bands, which 



