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ing on Jan. 12, 1919) from Pukaloa, the next valley, I noticed 

 their similarity, and thought that I had found a few A. spald- 

 ingi. I told Mr. Spalding later that I had found a few A. spald- 

 ingi in Haleauau, but he only laughed and seemed to discredit 

 the find. 



Upon my return from Kau, Hawaii, last September, I had 

 the good fortune of meeting my old-time hiking partner and 

 friend, Mr. Daniel B. Langford, whom I am sure you know 

 quite well. I showed him the shells two days before he left 

 here for Japan. On Oct. 9, 1920, I again went out, this time 

 to look particularly for more of the new shells. I could not 

 find any more banded P. dubia, but managed to get a few young 

 specimens of the new shell [Achatinella lehuiensis meinickei]. As 

 before, these were all found under the bark of the smooth-leaved 

 lehua trees, from within a foot of the ground to about six feet. 

 Some were on the outside, crawling. The higher up the tree I 

 went the less I found and the smaller the specimens. At ten 

 or twelve feet above ground I found none, so I concluded to 

 hunt "off the ground." Here again the shells seemed to be 

 confined to a very small area, not more than a hundred feet 

 across, or possibly 200 ft. Late in the afternoon, there being 

 no other place to hunt (I had hunted every plant in sight, even 

 the Hilo grass), I concluded to try the top of a large lehua tree 

 on which I had found several young specimens. Here I found 

 on the leaves, at the tip-top of the tree, some thirty to forty feet 

 above the ground, several large shells which I believe to be 

 adults. 



Again on Oct. 31, 1920, I went up the same trail to help the 

 Trail and Mountain Club of Honolulu mark the trail to Kaala 

 with signboards. I put in a good half-hour's hunt of the very 

 same lehua tree gone over two weeks before, and was rewarded 

 by finding over a dozen good specimens of A. 1. meineckei and 

 several A. mustelina on the very same branches, side by side. 

 Being on a tramping trip I had to move on, so I presume that 

 there are at least a few more specimens still to be found. 



I kept the specimens alive for one week, then let them drown 

 in water for about twenty hours, after which they were readily 

 removed from their shells. I kept each animal and its shel 1 



