NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH I3I 



The usual form of A. a. versicolor (pi. 2, fig. 33) measures: 

 Length 17.2 mm., greater diameter 11.6 mm., spire height 9.2 mm., 

 number of whorls 6; embryonic whorls light buff, lined or banded on 

 the last whorl with white ; first half postembryonic whorl pale gull 

 gray, spirally lined with benzo brown below the impressed sutural 

 band of benzo brown, just above the edge of the periphery a line of 

 sayal brown, last half of whorl pale gull gray with an axial streak 

 of snuff brown, first half of the penultimate pale gull gray axially 

 streaked with cinnamon buff, last whorl and a half white or faintly 

 shaded with pallid mouse gray, axially streaked with snuff brown 

 and the ground color, spirally banded or lined with snuff brown and 

 bister, below the edge of the periphery a band of white, base bister 

 axially streaked with white. 



A light color pattern (pi. 9, fig. 23) has the postembryonic whorls 

 white or faintly shaded with pallid mouse gray, first postembryonic 

 whorl and a half has a subsutural line of mouse gray, last postembry- 

 onic whorl and a half spirally lined and axially streaked with mikado 

 brown and sayal brown, subperipheral band white, base banded with 

 warm sepia and a line of white. A rare pattern (pi. 9, fig. 22) has the 

 last postembryonic whorl above the periphery white shaded with pale 

 gull gray, with a patch or streak of snuff brown above the aperture 

 and on the last half of the whorl, the band at the edge of the periph- 

 ery, and all below the white subperipheral band, drab axially streaked 

 with benzo brown. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA VERSICOLOR var. i 

 Plate 9, Figures 24-25i> 



Achatinella swiftii Newcomb, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 314, 



pi. 58, figs. 3, 3a, II ; pi. 59, fig. 2, 1914. 

 Achatinella apcxfulva apicata (Newcomb) Pfeiffer, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. 



Conch., vol. 22, p. 325, pi. 60, fig. 5a (only), 1914. 



Area 78?: Somewhere at a low elevation below area 79 probably 

 in area 78? (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105), on the North-South Kaukonahua 

 Ridge, Thurston, BBM 130693- 130694, Judd, BBM 110053-1 10054. 

 Also collected by Gulick and mixed with subspecies of A. apexfidva 

 from Kalaikoa and Ahonui. 



A. a. versicolor var. i is a race of bluish -gray shells with certain 

 color patterns that resemble those of A. a. versicolor, but most of its 

 patterns are quite distinct. 



A characteristic color pattern (pi. 9, fig. 25) has the postembryonic 

 whorls white, banded just above the periphery and on the last whorl 



