ACHATINELLA LORATA. 285 



ened, columellar margin reflexed, subadnate. Length 

 diam. 10 mm. ; aperture 8 mm. long, 4 wide inside. Mus. 

 Cuming, Sandwich Islands, Frick" (Pfr.). 



Waimano (C. M. Cooke) ; eastern ravines of Waiawa 

 (Irwin Spalding) ; Halawa to Waipio (Thwing). Mountains 

 behind Ewa, Perkins (Sykes). 



Achatinella pulchella PFR., P. Z. S. 1855, p. 6, pi. 30, f . 2 ; 

 Monographia iv, 536. 



I have never seen shells agreeing exactly with Pfeiffer's 

 figure, reproduced in pi. 30, fig. 2, but some from Waiawa are 

 perhaps as near as one ought to expect among such variable 

 forms. It is the shell commonly known as pulchella. It 

 differs from the ventrosa form of lorata as found in Moanalua, 

 etc. chiefly by the presence of a darker band below the suture, 

 the more brilliant gloss, and the short spire ; but it must be 

 admitted that if it were not already named, we would hardly 

 have thought the race worth a distinctive title. 



Shells from the eastern ravines of Waiawa, pi. 50, figs. 9, 13, 

 14 from Mr. Spalding 's no. 255 and 1899, have several 

 patterns : 



PL 50, fig. 14. Last whorl empire yellow with chestnut 

 streaks, mostly ill-defined, darker next the suture ; penulti- 

 mate whorl white with chestnut-spotted sutural border. 

 Length 17, diam. 10.8, aperture 9 mm. ; 6 whorls. Length 

 15.4, diam. 10.4, aperture 8.6 mm., 6 whorls. 



PI. 50, fig. 13. The same except that the streaks are cut by 

 white bands. 



PL 50, fig. 11. The same, with two nearly black bands un- 

 der the cuticle. Waimano (Dr. Cooke). The same form is 

 in the Waiawa lot. 



PL 50, fig. 9. White, with a chestnut-streaked band below 

 the suture. 



PL 50, fig. 10. White with greenish (yellowish citrine) 

 bands. Waimano (Dr. Cooke). 



PL 50, fig. 12. Last whorl streaked with light ochraceous 

 salmon. Waimano (Dr. Cooke). 



The specimens in coll. Cooke, reported from the north ridge 

 of Waimano valley, figs. 10-12, are exactly like those from 



