NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON — WELCH 163 



A lighter color pattern (pi. 12, fig. 4) occurs on 37 percent of the 

 shells in area 102; the last two postembryonic whorls and a half 

 pale Congo pink faintly lined and banded with vinaceous pink, edge 

 of the periphery of the last whorl banded with a band of white tinted 

 with a very dilute tint of pale congo pink or a dilute pinkish tint of 

 pale vinaceous fawn, base vinaceous pink ; subsutural and impressed 

 sutural band white. Length 19.8 mm., greater diameter 12.0 mm., 

 spire height 11.6 mm. Forty-one percent of the shells have the color 

 pattern of the holotype. 



Sixteen percent have a pinkish gray or gray color pattern shown 

 by an obese shell (pi. 12, fig. 4a), which has a concave spire, the first 

 two postembryonic whorls white, last whorl and a half below the 

 white sutural and subsutural bands are a very dilute tint of pale 

 grayish vinaceous spirally lined with pale grayish vinaceous, in the 

 umbilical region a patch of honey yellow. Length 19.7 mm., greater 

 diameter 13.8 mm., spire height 9.7 mm. 



Six percent have a white color pattern (pi. 12, fig. 4b) ; which has 

 a spire straight in outline ; embryonic whorls pale cinnamon pink 

 shading to white on the first half postembryonic whorl, the remaining 

 whorls white, in the umbilical region a dot or small patch of honey 

 yellow. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA ROSEIPICTA var. i 



Plate 3, Figure 8; Plate 12, Figures 5-6 



Area 103: North Kaukonahua-Poamoho Ridge, locality 289-ia, 

 elevation 2,000-2,050 feet, 1933; 287-1-2, elevation 1,900 feet, 

 1933; 287-1, elevation 1,900 feet, 8 dextral 1936; 287-2, elevation 

 1,900 feet, 2 dextral 1936; 287-3, elevation 1,900-1,950 feet, 1936; 

 288, elevation 1,900-2,068 feet, 1933; all collected by Meinecke 

 (figs. 5, 5a, p. 105). 



This variety is intermediate between A. a. aloha and A. a. roseipicta. 

 The banding resembles aloha but the color is much darker and is 

 closer to roseipicta. The usual form (pi. 3, fig. 8) and a color pattern, 

 found on 17 percent of the shells, has the embryonic whorls white; 

 postembryonic whorls white, banded and lined with avellaneous, 

 peripheral band white, outlined above and below by bands of cinnamon 

 rufous, base cinnamon rufous, banded with tilleul bufif and a band 

 of white ; impressed sutural and subsutural bands white ; lip and 

 columella callus light vinaceous fawn. Length 19.1 mm., greater 

 diameter 13.0 mm., spire height 9.8 mm., number of whorls 6^. 



