NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH 155 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA APICATA van 2 



Plate 3, Figure 23; Plate ii, Figures 14-16^ 



Area 96: Kawaihalona Gulch, locality 324, elevation 1,450 feet, 

 4 dextral 1933 ; 325, elevation 1,500-1,600 feet, 4 dextral 1933 ; 326*, 

 elevation 1,600-1,650 feet, 3 dextral 1932, all collected by Meinecke. 

 Other collectors of A a. apkata var. 2 in Kawaihalona Gulch are 

 Wilder, BBM 50509-50510, Cheatham in Thurston collection, BBM 

 13085 1. The material is unlocalized and probably is a mixture of 

 several races (figs. 5, ^a, p. 105). 



Very little accurate information is available on the shells of Kawai- 

 halona. From the data on hand it appears that the characteristic 

 pattern is similar to plate 3, figure 23. Embryonic whorls a dark 

 shade of ochraceous buff; first fourth postembryonic whorl tawny 

 axially streaked with ochraceous buff, remaining postembryonic 

 whorls pale pinkish buff darkening to light buff, strongly axially 

 streaked and spirally lined or banded with hair brown or fuscous ; 

 impressed sutural band the color of the rest of the whorl ; lip and 

 columella callus pale vinaceous fawn. Length 19.2 mm., greater 

 diameter 13.2 mm., spire height 10.7 mm., number of whorls 6-t-. 



A darker banded pattern (pi. 11, fig. 14) has the postembryonic 

 whorls dark vinaceous brown axially streaked and banded and lined 

 with pallid mouse gray changing on the last fourth whorl to tilleul 

 buff. The base of this specimen is flattened. 



Besides the above patterns, which have been checked by dead 

 specimens collected' by Meinecke in area 96, a color pattern (pi. 11, 

 fig. 15) similar to apkata var. i (pi. 11, fig. 4) is found in locaHty 326. 

 The embryonic whorls are light buff deepening to warm buff; post- 

 embryonic whorls pale vinaceous fawn axially streaked with cinnamon 

 drab and bone brown, last whorl with a line of pale vinaceous fawn 

 above, below, and at the edge of the periphery. 



In the Wilder collection, lot BBM 50510 had no locality label on 

 the shells when it came into the Bishop Museum. The lot may be a 

 mixture, for shells with color patterns similar to A. a. suturafusca 

 var. 2 (pi. 3, fig. 13) and other patterns are found mixed in with what 

 I suppose may be shells from Kawaihalona, because the color pattern 

 of plate 3, figure 23, occurs in the lot, and because of the position of 

 the lot in the Wilder collection when first received by the Museum. 

 Although the locality data are faulty and should be checked, some 

 peculiar patterns occur in this lot which are worthy of note since 

 they are not recorded from any plotted locality today. 



