104 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



II. o mm. The darkest form of this darker color pattern (pi. 9, fig. 5&) 

 is found on 5 specimens out of 26; first half postembryonic whorl 

 cinnamon buff, lined with white, last half of the whorl russet, lined 

 and streaked with pinkish buff, first three-fourths of the penultimate 

 whorl chocolate, last fourth of penultimate and last whorl pinkish 

 buff, spirally lined and heavily axially ornamented with closely set 

 axial streaks of bone brown ; impressed sutural band chestnut ; lip 

 and columella callus pale ochraceous buff. 



On plate 9, figures 5c and 5c? show the range of form of dextral 

 specimens. Figure 5c has a color pattern similar to plate 9, figure 5. 

 Length 17.7 mm., greater diameter 11.8 mm., spire height 9.8 mm., 

 number of whorls 6^. The shell of figure ^d has a color pattern 

 occurring on 3 percent of the shells and looks like typical A. a. 

 leucorraphe except for the brown sutural band; the last two and a 

 half postembryonic whorls on this specimen have the first whorl 

 white, and the last whorl and a half bone brown axially streaked and 

 spirally lined with pale smoke gray or white. Length 17.3 mm., greater 

 diameter 12.5 mm., spire height 8.8 mm., number of whorls 5 J. 



On 3 percent of the shells the fined pattern of plate 9, figure 5^ 

 is found, the last two postembryonic whorls pale pinkish buff axially 

 streaked with hair brown and spirally lined with fuscous, the lines 

 broken by the ground color. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA VIRGATIFULVA var. i 



Plate 2, Figure 20; Plate 9, Figure 6 



Area 75 : Waikakalaua-South Kaukonahua Ridge, locality 260*, 

 elevation 1,000-1,100 feet, Meinecke, BBM 121939, 3 dextral, i sinis- 

 tral, 1932. Also collected by Thurston, BBM 130725, 14 sinistral, 

 probably from area 75 (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105). 



Only six shells are known from locality 260*. The shells have 

 been separated out from area 73 because the axial streaks appear to 

 be more closely set together and not as thick as in typical A. a. 

 virgatifulva. But then certain specimens of the two areas resemble 

 each other, so that I am undecided as to whether or not they are 

 distinct subspecies. 



A common color pattern from locality 260* on a juvenile specimen 

 (pi. 2, fig. 20) has the embryonic whorls bicolored, upper half white, 

 lower half honey yellow shading to chamois ; first postembryonic whorl 

 pale pinkish buff spirally lined and axially streaked with verona 

 brown, last whorl and a half pinkish buff, finely axially streaked with 

 olive brown and bone brown. 



