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brown and hair brown ; impressed sutural band warm sepia lightening 

 to sayal brown on the last half whorl, subsutural band shades from 

 benzo brown to hair brown and verona brown on the last half whorl. 



An extreme obese specimen (pi. 9, fig. 26b) has the embryonic 

 whorls white; postembryonic whorls drab axially streaked with hair 

 brown, and on the last whorl also streaked with tilleul bufT, on the 

 last two whorls just above the edge of the periphery two lines of 

 white broken by the axial ornamentation, base weakly lined with 

 white; impressed sutural band russet lightening to tawny on the 

 last half whorl. Length 17.6 mm., greater diameter 13.0 mm., spire 

 height 9.2 mm. 



A lighter gray color pattern (pi. 9, fig. 26d) is strongly axially 

 streaked on the last two postembryonic whorls ; penultimate whorl 

 benzo brown, lined with pinkish bufif and white and streaked with 

 pale smoke gray, last whorl pale smoke gray lightening to pale cinna- 

 mon pink, axially streaked with light drab, spirally banded with drab 

 below the sutural band, and lined with white above and below the 

 periphery. The color may be a very light brownish hue (pi. 9, 

 fig. 26c), penultimate whorl similar to that of figure 26d, last whorl 

 avellaneous lined with white. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA VERSICOLOR Gulick 

 Plate 2, Figure 33; Plate 9, Figures 21-23 



Apex versicolor Gulick, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 80, pi. 9, fig. 18. 

 Achatinella swiftii Newcomb, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, pp. 306, 

 310, pi. 58, figs. I4-I4f^, 15 (only), 1914. 



The holotype (pi. 9, fig. 21) has the first embryonic whorl and a 

 half cartridge buff, remaining embryonic whorls cream buff, lined 

 with white; first quarter postembryonic whorl upper half pale gull 

 gray, lower half banded and lined with chamois, remaining post- 

 embryonic whorls pale gull gray axially streaked with mouse gray 

 on the penultimate, just above the edge of the periphery a band of 

 bone brown or clove brown up to the last whorl, last whorl pale mouse 

 gray axially streaked with benzo brown, banded above the pale 

 mouse gray peripheral band, and all below, with hay's brown, streaked 

 with pale mouse gray ; impressed sutural band the ground color ; 

 lip and columella callus pale vinaceous fawn. Length 18.8 mm., 

 greater diameter 13.0 mm., spire height 9.5 mm., number of whorls 6. 



Distribution, area?: Type locality, Ahonui, Gulick. Also Kalaikoa, 

 Gulick. This race probably occurred somewhere in the region of the 

 North or South Kaukonahua Stream. 



