NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON — WELCH II3 



with snuff brown, below which is a band of pinkish buff, base spirally 

 banded with sepia and snuff brown ; impressed sutural band warm 

 sepia lightening to verona brown on the last whorl; lip vinaceous 

 fawn; columella callus white. Length 18.0 mm., greater diameter 

 12.2 mm., spire height 10.2 mm. , 



Plate 9, figure 16, is a narrow specimen and light color pattern, the 

 last two postembryonic whorls tilleul buff spirally lined with natal 

 brown on the penultimate and hair brown and drab gray above the 

 periphery on the last whorl, base below the white subperipheral band 

 drab, banded with buffy brown and lined with white; impressed 

 sutural band wood brown darkening to cinnamon on the last whorl. 

 Length 18.0 mm., greater diameter 11.6 mm., spire height 10.2 mm. 



The usual dark color form (pi. 9, fig. 16a) has the first whorl 

 vinaceous buff, axially streaked with army brown and natal brown, 

 last whorl and a half below the sutural band pale gull gray, lined 

 with hay's brown, with a supraperipheral band of hay's brown 

 axially streaked with deep olive buff, at the edge of the periphery 

 a band of white, below the periphery the base is avellaneous axially 

 streaked with hay's brown and spirally lined with white; impressed 

 sutural band verona brown. Length 17.7 mm., greater diameter 

 13.0 mm., spire height 9.3 mm. 



A variation of the dark color pattern (pi. 9, fig. i6b) found on two 

 specimens has the last two postembryonic whorls pale pinkish buff 

 axially streaked and spirally lined with hair brown and chaetura 

 drab, last whorl lined at the periphery with two lines of white, ground 

 color of the last half whorl drab gray ; impressed sutural band russet. 



One specimen (pi. 9, fig. i6c) is found to have a pattern similar to 

 that of typical A. a. tnherans, except that the embryonic whorls are 

 bicolored as in plate 2, figure 23 ; the last two whorls are pale gull 

 gray spirally lined and banded with bone brown and natal brown, base 

 on the last half whorl axially streaked with natal brown ; impressed 

 sutural band russet lightening to tawny on the last half whorl. One 

 specimen similar to plate 9, figure lye, is also found in this lot, 

 differing only in that it has a peripheral yellow band. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA TUBERANS van 5 



Plate 9, Figures i7-i7e 



Distribution, area?: South Kaukonahua Stream, Wilder, BBM 

 50575. This lot of shells may have come from somewhere near or 

 along the South Kaukonahua South-Central Branch Ridge. However, 

 no material from this ridge has been carefully localized and no accu- 



