NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH IIQ 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA EWAENSIS var. 4 



Plate 2, Figure 13; Plate 7, Figures 22, 22a 



Area 54: Waiawa-Kipapa Ridge, locality 246*, elevation 1,800 

 feet, Meinecke, 1929; 246a, elevation 2,000-2,100 feet, 2 sinistral, 

 Hosaka, 1935. Meinecke also collected a lot, BBM 1 18442, from the 

 general region of locality 244 to 244-3 - But since the shells 

 differ from those in locality 244, I shall consider the shells to have 

 come from the region of locality 244-3? Since the lot was collected 

 before 1933, the shells may represent a series collected above area 53 

 (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105). 



The yellow banded color patterns of area 53 do not occur in area 54. 

 The usual color pattern (pi. 2, fig. 13) occurring on yy percent of 

 the shells in locality 246 has the embryonic whorls white, banded on 

 the lower fourth of the whorl with a band of russet which lightens 

 to chamois on the last half embryonic whorl; postembryonic whorls 

 white, lined and banded on the last whorl with chocolate. Twenty- 

 three percent have a color pattern similar to A. a. inmni var. i 

 (pi. 8, fig. 15a) only the embryonic whorls are not like irwim, being 

 banded with yellow. 



The series of shells from locality 244-3 ? contains a mixture of 

 patterns. A very lined form (pi. 7, fig. 22) has the first embryonic 

 whorl upper half white, lower half verona brown, remaining em- 

 bryonic whorls honey yellow on the lower three-fourths of the whorl, 

 upper fourth white; first two postembryonic whorls shade from 

 honey yellow to ochraceous tawny lined with white, last whorl banded 

 and lined with carob brown. The last whorl of this shell resembles 

 the lined pattern on the last whorl of A. a. ewaensis (pi. 7, fig. 24a). 



The postembryonic whorls (pi. 7, fig. 22a) may be white, banded 

 on the first two postembryonic whorls just above the edge of the 

 periphery with buckthorn brown, last whorl banded at the edge of the 

 periphery and below the periphery with liver brown ; lip and 

 columella callus vinaceous fawn. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA EWAENSIS var. 5 

 Plate 2, Figure 14; Plate 8, Figures 6-6h 



Area 55: North-Central Kipapa Ridge, locality 24oL-i-ia*, ele- 

 vation 1,450-1,550 feet, 1932; 240L-1, elevation 1,550 feet, 1933, 

 Meinecke (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105). 



This variety of A. a. ewaensis is intermediate between A. a. 

 ezvaensis and a lower gray race which is probably a form closely re- 

 lated to ^. rt. virgatifulva. The color patterns figured from area 55 

 are quite distinct from those of area 56, but mixed with these are a 



