NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH 79 



of a dextral. Length 18.2 mm., greater diameter 12.5 mm., spire 

 height 9.3 mm. One white specimen (pi. 7, fig. 3^) has the impressed 

 sutural band edged with vinaceous cinnamon; last whorl below the 

 periphery lined with chocolate. Another light color pattern (pi. 7, 

 fig. 4) has the postembryonic whorls light buff spirally lined with 

 black. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA NIGRIPICTA var. i 

 Plate i, Figure 48; Plate 7, Figures i-2g 



Achatinella turgida perplcxa Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 296, 

 pi. 56, figs. 5^, 5/ (only), 1 91 4. 



Area 44: Waimano-Manana Ridge, locality 223, elevation 1,250- 

 1,300 feet, a few dextral juvenile shells, Meinecke, 1933 (figs. 4, 

 4a, p. 53). A few specimens are found in locality 225 mixed with 

 typical A. a. cookei forms so that probably area 44 extends as far 

 as this locality. Other collectors of this form are Wilder, BBM 

 10449-10450, Cooke, BBM 72700-72722, and J. S. Emerson, BBM 

 1 07 1 7- 1 07 1 8. Their lots are usually mixed with forms from the 

 lower region of area 40 and have been separated out from the 

 lots of A. a. perplexa. The shells of area 44 are so close to A. a. 

 nigripicfa in form and color pattern that they can easily be con- 

 fused with them. This form of A. a. nigripicta var. i usually has a 

 more yellow ground color and no white color patterns. The placing of 

 the bands on the shells also differs. A. a. nigripicta occurs opposite 

 area 45 of A. a. cookei and not area 44 as one would suppose. All 

 this region needs to be re-collected very carefully to note whether 

 all areas have been accurately plotted. 



The localized Meinecke material from area 223 is very scanty so 

 that form and color-pattern range is not determinable. The shell may 

 be dextral or sinistral. The embryonic whorls (pi. i, fig. 48) are 

 white; last two postembryonic whorls and a half pale pinkish buff" 

 spirally banded with a dark shade of diamine brown and faintly axially 

 streaked on the last whorl above the periphery with grayish olive ; lip 

 not formed; columella callus light vinaceous fawn. A lighter color 

 pattern (pi. 7, fig. i) is pale pinkish buff' on the postembryonic 

 whorls, spirally lined with sayal brown, and with warm sepia on the 

 -penultimate, last whorl lined with warm buff above the periphery, 

 warm sepia at the periphery, below the periphery, subperipheral 

 band pale pinkish buff, a line of warm sepia and a band of cream 

 buff" about the base. A dark color pattern and a sinistral (pi, 7, 

 fig. I a), has the embryonic whorls white; first postembryonic whorl 

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