NO. I ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA DIXON WELCH 169 



area 93 near area 94 beata-Vike forms and the black forms of heata 

 var. I are found mixed with A. o. cermxn'wca. 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA BEATA Pilsbry and Cooke 

 Plates, Figure 17; Plate 12, Figures 13-16 



Achatinella apexfulva beata Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 329, 



pi. 60, figs. 170-170; pi. 55, fig. 5 (only), 1914. 

 Achatinella apicata var. alba Sykes, Fauna Hawaiiensis, p. 299, 1900. Not 



Achatinella alba Nuttall in Jay's Catalogue, ed. 3, p. 58, 1839 (name only), 



which is Achatinella lorata Ferussac. 

 Achatinella apexfulva alba Sykes, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, 



p. 324, 1914. 



The shell of Pilsbry 's plate 60, figure 17a, reproduced here on plate 

 12, figure 13, is considered the lectotype. The embryonic whorls are 

 cream color; postembryonic whorls, below the white sutural and 

 subsutural bands, with a band of liver brown, below which is a 

 band of white or seashell pink, last whorl below the white sutural 

 and subsutural bands seashell pink, banded above, at the edge and 

 below the periphery with livid brown, below the periphery the bands 

 faintly axially streaked with seashell pink, in the umbilical region a 

 patch of naples yellow; lip pale vinaceous fawn, columella callus 

 white. Length 19.8 mm., greater diameter 13.0 mm., spire height 

 ii.O mm., number of whorls 6|. The pattern is dominantly a banded 

 one, and the streaks are faint or not prominent. 



Distribution, area 104: Central Poamoho-Central Poamoho 

 North Branch Ridge, locality 280L-6, elevation 1,850-1,950 feet, 

 Meinecke, 1933; 280L-7, elevation 1,900 feet, Meinecke, 3 dextral 



1933 ; 280L-9, elevation 1,850 feet, Russ, 1934 ; Poamoho-Helemano 

 Ridge, locaHty 303, elevation 1,700-1,800 feet, Meinecke, 1934, Russ 



1934 J 304> elevation 1,800-1,900 feet, Meinecke, i dextral 1933, 

 I dextral 1934, Welch, 1935; 305, elevation 1,850-2,300 feet, 

 Meinecke, 2 dextral 1933, Welch, 4 dextral 1935 ; 306-1, elevation 

 1,850-2,000 feet, Meinecke, 7 dextral 1933; 306-3, elevation 1,750- 

 1,850 feet, I sinistral 1934; also 302-304?, BBM 122106, 1916; 

 305-306-2?, BBM 122112-122113, 1932, less localized Meinecke 

 material plotted from memory; South Helemano Stream, locality 

 300H, elevation 1,500-1,600 feet, Meinecke, i dextral 1934; 300G, ele- 

 vation 1,600-1,750 feet, Meinecke, 6 dextral 1934; North-South 

 Helemano Ridge, locality 317, elevation 1,750-1,950 feet, Meinecke, 

 8 dextral 1934. Other collectors of A. a. heata probably from area 

 104 are Thurston, BBM 130772, Wilder, BBM 50633, Lemke, and 

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



