LAMINELLA, MAUI. 341 



The shell is larger than picta, with more confused and 

 streaked pattern; last whorl often malleated. The spire may 

 be white with rare green specks, or it may be rather well cov- 

 ered with green or olive-black lines. The specimens figured 

 are from Kula, Gulick coll. This place may be selected as 

 type locality. 



Length 24.3, diam. 12.4 mm. ; 7*4 whorls. 



Length 21.3, diam. 11.5 mm. ; 7 whorls. 



Length 21.5, diam. 12 mm. ; 6% whorls. 



An embryonic shell examined is entirely like that described 

 above, except that it is a little smaller, with the columellar 

 fold barely indicated by a narrowing of the columella. 



9. L. ALEXANDEI (Newcomb) . PL 52, figs. 1, 2, 9. 



" Shell perforate, left-handed, elongately sub cylindrical, 

 shining, reddish-brown, with painting of elongate, inosculat- 

 ing black veins. Whorls 6, convex, regularly but slowly in- 

 creasing; apex a little obtuse; suture moderately impressed, 

 not emarginate ; aperture small, subovate ; lip acute ; colu- 

 mella white, short, almost straight, truncate, terminating by 

 a twisted plait passing within. Length .6, diam. .25 inch; 

 aperture length .2, width .1 inch " (Newc.). 



West Maui, at an elevation of 7,500 'feet (Rev. M. Alex- 

 ander) ; Puu Kukui (Thaanum). 



Achatinella alexandri NEWC., Proc. California Acad. Sci., 

 iii, Jan., 1865, p. 182; Amer. Journ. of Conch., ii, 1866, p. 

 216, pi. 13, f. 14. THWING, Occ. Pap. B. P. B. Mus., iii, p. 

 132, pi. 3, f. 4. L[aminella] alexandria Newc., HARTMAN, 

 Proc. A. N. S., Phila., 1888, p. 42. 



' ' This species is more cylindrical than any of its congeners, 

 resembling most A. remyi Newc., which is longer, not umbili- 

 cated, more pointed at the apex, with a twisted, not truncate 

 columella, From venusta and citrina Mighels it varies both 

 in form and color. With some varieties of picta it claims 

 analogy only in the general plan of painting. Its striking 

 characteristics are its blunt apex, slightly rounded whorls, 

 small aperture, short and white columella, umbilicus, and 

 general plan of coloring " (Newcomb}. 



