NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON — WELCH I4I 



The darkest color pattern (pi. 10, fig. 22) has the postembryonic 

 whorls plumbeous axially streaked with white, dark violet gray, and 

 blackish violet gray, last whorl almost solid blackish violet gray 

 axially streaked by the above lighter shades of gray ; impressed sutural 

 band white ; lip and columella callus light vinaceous fawn. 



The usual form of a sinistral, shown on plate lo, figure 22a, has 

 a color pattern similar to plate 3, figure 10, except that the dark axial 

 streaks are finer and resemble those of A. a. lilacea var. i (pi. 3, 

 fig-3)- 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA PUNICEA, new subspecies 



Plate 2, Figure 26; Plate 10, Figures 6-6c 



The shape is similar to the probably lower race of A. a. steeli, 

 but the color pattern is different. The color pattern resembles that 

 of A. a. lilacea, but the range of color pattern and the form of the 

 shell make it distinct from lilacea, which is a much smaller shell. The 

 embryonic whorls of the holotype (pi. 2, fig. 26) are white, shading 

 to pale pinkish buff on the last embryonic whorl ; postembryonic 

 whorls vinaceous buff axially streaked with avellaneous and tilleul 

 buff; impressed sutural band light buff, tinting to pale pinkish buff 

 on the last half whorl ; lip and columella callus light vinaceous fawn 

 lightening to white within. Length 19.0 mm., greater diameter 13.3 

 mm., spire height 9.6 mm., number of whorls 6. 



Distribution, area 81??: Kaukonahua, Wilder, BBM 50583, 

 50581 ; also collected by O. P. Emerson on "Head gate road ridge 

 between N. & S. br. of Kaukonahua," in the collection of the MCZ. 

 The type locality is not known exactly. Odd specimens with the 

 usual A. a. punicea pattern are found with A. a. steeli in locality 272. 

 In the type lot a few blue-gray shells are found which are similar to 

 A. a. punicea var. i (area 82 ?). The subspecies A. a. punicea probably 

 exists somewhere between areas 80 and 82 ?, probably near the bottom 

 of North Kaukonahua Stream, in the region of area 81?? (fig. 5a, 

 p. 105). 



An obese shell (pi. 10, fig. 6) measures : Length 19.4 mm., greater 

 diameter 13.5 mm., spire height 8.9 mm. ; embryonic whorls light 

 buff; postembryonic whorls wood brown faintly axially streaked with 

 tilleul buff, about the periphery a band of tilleul buff ; impressed sutural 

 band a hue between cinnamon and avellaneous ; lip and columella callus 

 pale vinaceous fawn. The pink color pattern of the holotype and 

 plate 10, figure 6 occurs on 59 percent of the shells. 



The sutural band may be white, the form elongate, and the color 

 pattern a bluish pink (pi. 10, fig. 6a) intermediate between A. a. 



