NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH 51 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA RUBIDIPICTA var. i 



Platk 5, Figures 3-3b 



Area?: Kalihi, Wilder, BBM 50544, 9 dextral, 16 sinistral. 



The shells are similar to A. a. rubidipicta but have a different series 

 of color patterns. Some dextral specimens have a color pattern which 

 resembles A. a. albofasciata and differs only in having light reddish- 

 brown bands instead of yellowish-brown ones. One of these dis- 

 tinctive color patterns (pi. 5, fig. 3) is a white shell banded and 

 lined on the last two whorls with pecan brown, and a band of 

 ochraceous tawny below the periphery. The usual form of a dextral 

 shell (pi. 5, fig. 3a) measures: Length 19.7 mm., greater diameter 

 13.0 mm., spire height lo.o mm.; last two postembryonic whorls 

 white, with a band of russet below the white sutural band and just 

 above the edge of the periphery, last whorl lined at the edge of the 

 periphery with two lines of burnt umber, below the periphery lined 

 and banded with burnt umber on the rest of the whorl. The sinistral 

 form of the shell (pi. 5, fig. 3^) is very like typical A. a. rubidipicta 

 but the distribution of the chocolate bands over the white ground on 

 the last two whorls is different from anything found in locality no. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA RUBIDIPICTA var. 2 



Plate i, Figure 22 



Area 18: Kalihi-Kahauiki Ridge, locaHty 141*, elevation 1,650 

 feet, Meinecke, 2 sinistrals 1927 (figs. 3, ^a, p. 29). Also collected in 

 Kahauiki by Wilder, BBM 50519. The usual color pattern of the 

 shells in the Wilder lot is similar to that of the two Meinecke shells, 

 and they are believed to have come from the same locality. 



The form is very close to A. a. rubidipicta but has a slightly differ- 

 ent series of color patterns. The usual color pattern (pi. i, fig. 22) 

 has the last two postembryonic whorls white, lined below the suture 

 with a line of mikado brown, last whorl banded with two chocolate 

 bands. Length 19.8 mm., greater diameter 13.4 mm., spire height 

 10.2 mm. The color pattern may be lined similar to plate 5, figure 3&. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA RUBIDIPICTA var. 3 



Plate 5, Figures 4-4^ 



Area?: Moanalua, Wilder, BBM 50522. 



The subspecies resembles A. a. rubidipicta but has a different 

 series of color patterns. The embryonic whorls are similar to those 

 of A. a. simulans var. 2, and are intermediate in form and color 



