NO. I ACHATIiNELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH I47 



hair brown, and smoke gray, last whorl drab finely axially streaked 

 with hair brown ; impressed sutural band upper two-thirds white, 

 lower third the color of the whorl below ; lip and columella callus 

 light vinaceous fawn. Length 18.9 mm., greater diameter 12.3 mm., 

 spire height 10.8 mm., number of whorls 6. 



Distribution, area 88: Central Poamoho-Central Poamoho 

 North Branch Ridge, type locality 280L-2, elevation 1,550 feet; also 

 280L-3, elevation 1,600-1,650 feet, 2 dextral, 5 sinistral, Meinecke, 

 1933; 280L-4, elevation 1,700 feet; 280L-5, elevation 1,650 feet, 18 

 sinistral, all Meinecke-collected, 1933 (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105). 



An extremely narrow shell (pi. 10, fig. 26) shows a lighter color 

 pattern ; first half postembryonic whorl army brown axially streaked 

 with white, next whorl axially streaked with hair brown, benzo 

 brown, white, and pale pinkish cinnamon, first half of last whorl 

 the ground above the periphery pale pinkish cinnamon darkening on 

 the last half whorl and below the periphery to a yellowish hue of 

 wood brown, the entire whorl axially streaked with snuff brown and 

 warm sepia ; impressed sutural band white. Length 18.5 mm., greater 

 diameter 11.6 mm., spire height 10.5 mm. 



On one specimen the sutural band is found to be mikado brown 

 on the last two whorls. This obese shell (pi. 10, fig. 26a) resembles 

 more the form and color pattern of A. a. suturafusca var. 2 (pi. 10, 

 fig- 25/?)- The first two postembryonic whorls and the last whorl 

 above the periphery pallid mouse gray or mouse gray axially streaked 

 with dark purple drab, last whorl below the periphery snuff brown 

 on the last half of the whorl, last whorl below the periphery sayal 

 brown axially streaked with bister or benzo brown. Length 20.0 mm., 

 greater diameter 13.4 mm., spire height 11.2 mm. 



The usual form of a sinistral and a grayish pattern (pi. 10, fig. 2y) 

 has the penultimate and first half of last whorl drab gray axially 

 streaked with pale drab gray or white, last half of last whorl light drab 

 darkening to drab axially streaked with hair brown and snuff brown, 

 just above the edge of the periphery a line of white. Length 18.2 mm., 

 greater diameter 12.1 mm., spire height 9.9 mm. 



The color pattern of a sinistral (pi. 10, fig. 28) shows the darkest 

 brownish color pattern with the usual fine axial streaks, of the sub- 

 species. The first half of the first postembryonic whorl cinnamon buff, 

 faintly axially streaked with army brown, last half livid brown 

 lightly axially streaked with pallid mouse gray, penultimate whorl 

 light mouse gray deepening to mouse gray, and axially streaked with 



