30 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



postembryonic whorl and penultimate whorl drab gray axially streaked 

 with benzo brown, the first half of the last whorl is drab axially 

 streaked with bone brown, tinted below the tawny impressed sutural 

 band with tawny, last half whorl changes from drab to tawny axially 

 streaked with bone brown, peripheral band white ; lip and columella 

 callus army brown. Length 18.8 mm., greater diameter 11. 5 mm., 

 spire 10.5 mm., number of whorls 6^. 



Distribution, area 2 : Waialae Iki-Waialae Nui Ridge, type lo- 

 cality 5iAa, elevation 1,250-1,350 feet, Meinecke, 1933; also 51A*, 

 elevation 1,000-1,350 feet, Meinecke, 6 sinistral 1926, i sinistral 

 1928; Waialae Nui Gulch, locality 50A*, elevation 1,400-1,450 feet, 

 Meinecke 1926, i sinistral 1929. Also collected in the region of 

 Waialae Iki-Waialae Nui Ridge by O. H. Emerson, BBM 103924, 

 1916, BBM 103926, 7 sinistral 1918; Waialae, Wailupe, Gulick. 



Area 3 : Waialae Iki-Waialae Nui Ridge, locality 50A-3, eleva- 

 tion 1,500-1,650 feet, O. H. Emerson, BBM 167275-167276, 6 sinis- 

 tral 1937 (figs. 3, 3a, p. 29). 



The lightest color pattern (pi. 4, fig. 2) is gray; postembryonic 

 whorls pale ecru drab streaked with drab gray and ecru drab, tinted 

 on the last half whorl with sayal brown, and streaked with verona 

 brown, impressed sutural band mikado brown. 



Plate 4, figures 2a and 3, show reddish-brown patterns of this 

 race which are peculiar to the shells of Waialae. The shell of figure 2a 

 has dark vinaceous brown postembryonic whorls streaked with drab 

 gray or deep olive buff. That of figure 3 has mikado brown post- 

 embryonic whorls darkening to cameo brown on the last whorl, at 

 the edge of the periphery a band of cinnamon buff. 



In locality 50A-3 only dextrals occur. The typical form (pi. 4, 

 fig. 4) has the last two postembryonic whorls pinkish buff axially 

 streaked with saccardo's umber and sepia, last half whorl snuff brown. 

 Length 18.2 mm., greater diameter 12.0 mm., spire height 9.6 mm. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA MURICOLOR, new subspecies 



Plate i, Figure i; Plate 4, Figures i-ib 



Achatinella cestus Newcomb, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 288, 

 pi. 52, figs. 9, 90, 10 (only), 191 4. 



The shell resembles A. a. waialae ensis but differs in having the 

 dominant pattern always profusely lined with white over a gray 

 ground. No reddish-brown color forms occur in this race and the 

 characteristic white peripheral band is usually lacking, but may be 

 present. 



