174 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA VESPERTINA Baldwin 



Plate 3, Figure 28; Plate 12, Figures 23-25 



Achatinella vespertina Baldwin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1895, 

 p. 219, pi. 10, fig. 14. — PiLSBRY and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, p. 322, pi. 60, 

 figs. 2, 3, 1914. 



The holotype in the Academy of Natural Sciences (pi. 12, fig. 23) 

 has the embryonic whorls cartridge buff shading to light pinkish 

 cinnamon on the last half embryonic whorl ; postembryonic whorls 

 light pinkish cinnamon ; impressed sutural band cartridge buff ; lip 

 and columella callus cartridge buff. Length 20.6 mm., greater diameter 

 14.3 mm., number of whorls 6§. 



Distribution, area 98?: Kawailoa, D. D. Baldwin, type lot, BBM 

 57996, 5 dextral, also BBM 54685, 54737, 6 dextral, E. Lyman ex 

 Baldwin, BBM 167354, 9 dextral; Kamoku, J. S. Emerson, BBM 

 102310-102311 ; Waialua, J. S. Emerson, BBM 102309; "Kawaiiki 

 I way down the valley, side north of 2nd Kamoku Plateau." (O. P. 

 Emerson label in O. H. Emerson collection, BBM 103983.) "Li a 

 secondary ravine of Kawaiiki Valley on the South side, not quite as 

 far up the valley as the hut back of Kamoku." (O. P. Emerson 

 label in MCZ.) Also collected by Wilder, BBM 50605, and Spalding 

 in Kawaiiki Gulch. The Wilder lot has no label but is localized 

 from the Spalding collection. Spalding collected with Wilder, and 

 on his authority the approximate area 98? is marked on fig. ^a, 

 page 105. 



The usual form and color pattern of the shell (pi. 3, fig. 28) has 

 been selected from the Baldwin and Lyman lots. The embryonic 

 whorls are light buff ; postembryonic whorls pale ochraceous salmon 

 with a faint band on the last two whorls just above the edge of the 

 periphery of pale cinnamon pink, on the last whorl, below this band, 

 is a line of the same color ; impressed sutural band the ground color ; 

 lip and columella callus pale ochraceous salmon. Length 19.6 mm., 

 greater diameter 13.1 mm., spire height 10.8 mm. 



In a lot in the Wilder collection the usual form (pi. 12, fig. 24) 

 has a more obese appearance, and also shows a pinkish-hued form 

 which does not occur in the type lots ; embryonic whorls pale pinkish 

 buff; first postembryonic whorl and a half pale pinkish buff faintly 

 streaked with pinkish buff, last postembryonic whorl and a half 

 vinaceous pink spirally banded and lined with pale vinaceous fawn ; 

 impressed sutural band pale pinkish cinnamon ; lip and columella 

 callus white or a dilute tint of tilleul buff'. Length 19. i mm., greater 

 diameter 13.4 mm., spire height 10.5 mm. 



