NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON — WELCH 137 



embryonic whorls white up to the last whorl, last whorl above the 

 periphery cream buff, with a band made up of fine drab-gray lines 

 which darken on the last half whorl to cinnamon drab, above the band 

 a line of avellaneous, below and at the edge of the periphery chamois, 

 banded about the center of the base with two bands or lines of natal 

 brown ; impressed sutural band russet ; lip and columella callus a very 

 dilute shade of vinaceous fawn. 



The shell may not be strongly ornamented with gray or brown 

 lines or bands (pi. lo, fig. 19a), the first postembryonic whorl white 

 spirally lined with warm sepia, penultimate whorl white, last whorl 

 mustard yellow faintly banded with bands slightly darker than the 

 ground ; impressed sutural band on the first two postembryonic 

 whorls russet, on the first half of the last whorl white with upper edge 

 russet, on the last half whorl white. This color pattern occurs on 

 23 percent of the shells. 



A variation of the usual color pattern (pi. 10, fig. igb) has the first 

 postembryonic whorl and half army brown with a subsutural line of 

 white, and another line of white just above the periphery which 

 broadens on the last half of the penultimate to a band, so that the 

 whorl is white with a median band of army brown on the last half 

 of the penultimate, last whorl, above the white peripheral band or line, 

 banded with a white subsutural band, a band of army brown, and a 

 band of chamois, on the last half whorl subsutural band tinted with 

 chamois, below the periphery the ground chamois, with a central 

 line of army brown. 



In other lots of shells from Ahonui and Kalaikoa sometimes marked 

 by Gulick "tuherans-tumefacta," is a white shell (pi. 10, fig. 20) 

 which is banded on the postembryonic and on the impressed sutural 

 band with pecan brown. I believe that this rare color pattern is a 

 light color pattern of flavida which lacks the usual yellow color. 

 Pilsbry and Cooke (pi. 58, fig. 10) figured a sinistral shell with this 

 color pattern. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA LILACEA Gulick 

 Plate 3, Figure 2; Plate 10, Figures 8-1 i 



Apex lilaceus Gulick, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 79, pi. 10, fig. 4. 

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

 Conch., vol. 22, pp. 325, 328, pi. 60, figs. 14, 14a (only), 1914. 



The holotype of A. a. lilac ea (pi. 10, fig. 8) has the embryonic 

 whorls white ; postembryonic whorls white axially streaked with light 

 vinaceous fawn darkening to vinaceous fawn on the last whorl ; 



