NO, I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON — ^WELCH 8l 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA NIGRIPICTA var. 2 



Plate 2, Figures i, 2; Plate 7, Figures 5-60 



Area 48: Manana-Waiawa Ridge, locality 237^, elevation 1,750- 

 1,800 feet, 2 dextral ; 23711, elevation 1,500-1,700 feet, Meinecke, 1933. 



Area 48A: Manana-Waiawa Ridge, locality 238a, elevation 

 1,750-1,900 feet; 238b elevation 1,800-1,850 feet, Meinecke, 1933 

 (figs. 4,4a, p. 53). 



The shells of area 48 differ from A. a. nigripicta in having very 

 obese dextral shells w^ith usually a w^hite ground instead of a yellow- 

 ish one. The usual form and color pattern of the shell (pi. 2, fig. i) 

 measures: Length 19.4 mm., greater diameter 13.5 mm., spire height 

 9.5 mm. ; embryonic whorls white ; postembryonic whorls white 

 spirally banded and lined with a dark shade of diamine brown. An 

 obese form (pi. 7, fig. 5) with a white ground and black banded 

 postembryonic whorls measures : Length 20.3 mm., greater diameter 

 14.2 mm., spire height 9.8 mm. 



In area 48a the color patterns are close to those of area 48, The 

 form of the shells shows no variation from those of area 50. The 

 darkest pattern (pi. 7, fig. 6a) has the postembryonic whorls colored 

 a dark shade of diamine brown, last whorls banded and lined at and 

 below the periphery with pale pinkish cinnamon. A lined color pat- 

 tern (pi. 7, fig. 6) has the postembryonic whorls white tinted with light 

 buff, lined with verona brown and black, subperipheral band white, 

 below which are two bands of black, in the umbilical region a band 

 of warm buff. The usual light color pattern (pi. 2, fig. 2) has the 

 postembryonic whorls white, lined on the last two whorls just above 

 the periphery with a line of mikado brown, at and below the periphery 

 lined and banded with black. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA SIMULACRUM Pilsbry and Cooke 



Plate i, Figure 50; Plate 7, Figures 13-150 



Achatinella iurgida simulacrum Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 299, 

 pi. 56, figs. 14-14J (only), 1914. 



The shell figured on plate 56, figure 14a, of the Manual of Conch- 

 ology is considered the lectotype oi A. a. simulacrum and is repro- 

 duced in this paper on plate 7, figure 13. The embryonic whorls are 

 a light shade of cartridge buff, banded on the last half embryonic 

 whorl with a faint color of warm buff ; postembryonic whorls upper 

 half white, lower half amber brown streaked and lined with chestnut. 



