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light buff which deepens to warm buff on the last whorl, ftelow the 

 periphery base banded with a band of cinnamon drab, benzo brown 

 and cream color in the umbilical region. 



A possible intermediate pattern between A. a. versicolor var. i and 

 A. a. stccli var. i (pi. lo, fig. ih) is seen on three specimens in the 

 Wilder collection ; embryonic whorls white ; postembryonic whorls 

 banded at the suture and below the suture by a wide band of chestnut 

 brown covering the upper half of the whorl, which is solid or linecl 

 with drab gray, just above the edge of the periphery a band of pale 

 ecru drab axially streaked with white and spirally lined with light 

 brownish drab, just below the edge of the periphery a band of white 

 and below this a band of natal brown, base white, shaded with ecru 

 drab and lined with a line of light brownish drab. 



In the Thurston lot there is a very light color pattern (pi. 10, fig. 2) . 

 The embryonic whorls are pale pinkish cinnamon ; first postembryonic 

 whorl pale pinkish cinnamon, banded with bone brown, and cinnamon, 

 penultimate and last whorl white, banded above or at the edge of the 

 periphery with a narrow band of bone brown lightening to army 

 brown, above the peripheral band a faint band of cinnamon buff, 

 below the periphery the ground white lined and banded with avella- 

 neous ; lip and columella callus avellaneous lightening to white toward 

 the inner margin. Before the Thurston collection was given to the 

 Bishop Museum the cabinets containing the collection were moved 

 during a fire. In moving the cabinets they were tilted and shells 

 from different localities were mixed. Therefore the exact location 

 of this light color form should be checked. 



Group of A. a. apicata Newcomb 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA BRUNOSA, new subspecies 



Plate 3, Figure ii; Plate 10, Figures 26-28 



This species is similar to A. a. lilacea var. i (area 83) in form, in 

 the width of the axial streaks on the ix)stembryonic whorls, and in 

 usually having a white sutural band. It differs in having the last 

 whorl and a half gray or gray brown. A. a. brunosa also closely 

 resembles A. a. apicata, but differs in the shade of brown of the 

 postembryonic whorls, and in usually having a white sutural band. 



The first two postembryonic whorls of the holotype (pi. 3, fig. 11) 

 are cinnamon pink, deepening on the last embryonic whorl to 

 ochraceous buff, first half postembryonic whorl army brown axially 

 streaked with white, next whorl axially streaked with pale gull gray 

 and deep neutral gray, next half whorl finely axially streaked with 



