58 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



figure 26, and the lined pattern of plate 5, figure 11. The usual pat- 

 tern (pi. I, fig. 26) and form of the shell from area 22 has the post- 

 embryonic whorls white; about 3 mm. behind the edge of the lip 

 the last whorl is ornamented with a streak of sayal brown and banded 

 with a band of brownish black; lip brownish black shading to cinna- 

 mon drab on the inner edge, near the columella callus the outer edge 

 is also cinnamon drab. Length 20.0 mm., greater diameter 13.7 mm., 

 spire height lO.o mm., number of whorls 63. The lined pattern (pi. 5, 

 fig. 11) has the embryonic whorls white shading to pale pinkish buflf 

 on the first half of the first postembryonic whorl, last half pinkish 

 buff, last two whorls pale pinkish buff banded and lined with pinkish 

 buff and cinnamon buff, the last 2^ mm. behind the edge of the lip 

 bone brown or a blackish brown ; lip a blackish brown ; tip of colu- 

 mella callus white, shading to vinaceous fawn, near the closed um- 

 bilicus. So few of the specimens were available for study that the 

 typical form was not determined. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA OVUM var. i 

 Plate i, Figure 25 ; Plate 5, Figures 8, 8a 



Achatinella tiirgida ovum Pfeiffer, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, 

 p. 298, pi. 56, fig. 10 (only), 1914. 



Area 21 : North-Central Halav^^a Ridge, locality 160C*, elevation 

 1,000-1,100 feet, Meinecke, i dextral 1930; Central Halawa region 

 of 162B*, elevation 1,050-1,250 feet, Meinecke, 1914; also collected 

 by Thurston, BBM 130505 (figs. 4, 4a, p. 53). 



The shells of area 21 differ from those of area 22 in being dextral, 

 smaller, and having an impressed sutural band of sayal brown on the 

 first postembryonic whorl, on the remaining whorls the sutural band 

 is white, fringed with sayal brown at the upper edge, or entirely 

 white. 



The usual form of the shell (pi. i, fig. 25) measures: Length 

 18.7 mm., greater diameter 12.5 mm., spire height 9.8 mm., number of 

 whorls 6J. The shell is a dead specimen but retains most of the shell 

 nacre ; postembryonic whorls white slightly tinted with cream color 

 just behind the edge of the lip; lip army brown. 



In a fresh specimen (pi, 5, fig. 8) embryonic whorls a light shade 

 of cream color; first postembryonic whorl cream color shading to 

 white on the penultimate and first half of the last whorl, last half 

 whorl above the periphery ivory yellow, last whorl below the periph- 

 ery cream color lined and banded with avellaneous. Length 17.3 mm., 

 greater diameter 12.4 mm., spire height 9.2 mm. 



