236 PARTULA, RAIATEA AND TAHAA. 



ing terminating in a stout callous nodule near the insertion. 

 Parietal callus thin and transparent, not toothed. 



Typical color yellow, fading to whitish on the spire, the 

 entire base and a band below the suture chestnut or chocolate 

 brown. 



Lengtn 25.5, diam. 14, length aperture 14 mm. 



Length 25, diam. 15, length aperture 14.5 mm. 



Raiatea, throughout the island, on the trunks and foliage of 

 trees and bushes, very abundant, the metropolis of the typical 

 form at Utuloa. 



Limax faba MARTYN, Universal Conchologist ii, pi. 67, two 

 middle figures (1784). Chenu's Bibl. Conch, ii, p. 24, pi. 24, 

 f. 2a. Helix faba GMEL. Syst. Nat. 1791, p. 3625. Bulimus 

 faba LAM. and of PFR., Monogr. ii, 73. Partula faba SOWB. 

 in Zool. Beechey's Voy., p. 144, pi. 38, f. 4. REEVE, Conch. 

 Syst. ii, pi. 175, f. 13, 14; Conch. Icon. pi. 1, f. 5. PFR. 

 Monogr. iii, 446 ; iv, 511 ; vi, 159 ; viii, 199 ; Conchyl. Cab. p. 

 263, pi. 22, f. 10. DESK., in Fer., Histoire, p. 125, pi. 158, 

 f. 7-10, 15, 16. PEASE, Journ. de Conchyl. xviii, 1870, p. 400 

 with var. sttbangulata, p. 401; P. Z. S. 1871, p. 458 (var. 

 subangulata} . HARTMAN, Catal. Partula p. 6, woodcut; Obs. 

 Part., Bull. M. C. Z. ix, p. 182. GARRETT, Journ. A. N. S. P. 

 ix. 1887, p. 57, with varr. subangulata, p. 58, pi. 3, f . 79 ; 

 amanda, p. 58, pi. 3, f. 78; and dubia, p. 58, pi. 3, f. 80. 

 SMITH, Annals of the Carnegie Mus. I, p. 426, no. 4093-4108. 

 Partula biangulata Pse. MS. and P. propinqua Pse. MS. 

 according to Hartman. - - Voluta fasciata DILLWYN, Descr. 

 Catal. i, p. 502. Bulimus australis BRUG., Encycl. Meth. i, 

 p. 347. Partula australis GRATELOUP Soc. Bord. xi, 424, pi. 

 2, f. 5. Partulus australis BECK, Index p. 57. Bulimus in- 

 constans Miihlf., ANTON, Verzeichniss p. 40, no. 1474 ("chest- 

 nut brown, the peristome light brown, stronger [than faba], 

 aperture narrower. Nuahame ") . Bulimus tricolor Miihlf., 

 ANTON, 1. c., no. 1474 (" yellowish-green banded with 

 brown ") . Partula brunnea PEASE MS., HARTMAN, Bull. M. 

 C. Z., ix, 180 "a dark elongated variety of P. faba." Par- 

 tula pallida Pease MS., HARTMAN, Bull. M. C. Z., ix, 195 "= 



