78 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



on one specimen in locality 237f has the postembryonic whorls mars 

 yellow, lined and faintly axially streaked with light buff, last whorl 

 banded just below the edge of the periphery with pale pinkish buff, 

 the ground below this band light buff spirally banded with mars yellow 

 with a line of warm blackish brown; impressed sutural band russet. 

 Length 19.0 mm., greater diameter 12.7 mm., spire height 10.7 mm. 

 The darkest color pattern (pi. 7, fig. 11) found on only one specimen 

 has the postembryonic whorls banded with argus brown, lined and 

 axially streaked with light buff, last whorl just above the periphery 

 and all below warm blackish brown. The color of the lip and 

 columella callus is usually light vinaceous fawn. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA NIGRIPICTA, new subspecies 



Plate i, Figure 55; Plate 7, Figures 3-4 



Achatinella turgida simulacrum Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 300, 

 pi. 56, figs. 13-13& (only), 1914. 



The shell of the holotype (pi. i, fig. 55) has the embryonic whorls 

 white; postembryonic whorls pale pinkish buff banded with a very 

 deep shade of diamine brown or black; impressed sutural band same 

 black color ; lip and columella callus vinaceous fawn. Length 18.2 mm., 

 greater diameter 12.2 mm., spire height 9.3 mm., number of whorls 6. 



Distribution, area 50: Manana-Waiawa Ridge, type locality 

 237b, elevation 1,450-1,500 feet, 1933; also in locality 237c, elevation 

 1,350-1,400 feet; 237d, elevation 1,500 feet; 237e, elevation 1,600- 

 1,650 feet, 3 sinistral, all Meinecke-collected, 1933 (figs. 4, 4a, p. 53). 

 Another collector of this form is Vasconcellos in 191 5, for Thurston, 

 BBM 1 30587- 1 30588. 



A variation (pi. 7, fig. 3) of the typical color pattern, and an 

 elongate shell, has a lighter colored spire ; postembryonic whorls pale 

 pinkish buff spirally lined, and banded with ochraceous buff, and 

 lined with black, last whorl at and below the periphery black with a 

 band of pale pinkish buff just below the periphery. Length 18.8 mm., 

 greater diameter 12.3 mm., spire height 10.5 mm. A lined pattern 

 (pi. 7, fig. 3a) has the embryonic whorls black or a deep shade of 

 diamine brown, lined with light buff. The color pattern (pi. 7, 

 fig. 3^) may be solid black or a deep shade of diamine brown, which 

 looks like a form of A. a. apexfulva; the last half of the first post- 

 embryonic whorl is lined with white. A rare pattern (pi. 7, fig. 3c) 

 on one or two shells has the postembryonic whorls white spirally 

 lined with tawny and black, banded below the periphery with black ; 

 impressed sutural band tawny. This shell also shows the usual form 



