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whorl banded at the periphery with a band of amber brown, below 

 the periphery the first half of the last whorl chamois shading to white 

 on the last half of the whorl, entire whorl lined with natal brown, the 

 last half of the whorl more profusely lined and banded than the first 

 half; impressed sutural band wood brown; lip and columella callus 

 light vinaceous buff. 



One shell in the Thurston lot (pi. ii, fig. 33a) has the post- 

 embryonic whorls white, banded just above or at the edge of the 

 periphery with natal brown, on the last whorl the band or line fades 

 to army brown and on the last half of the whorl to a line of cinna- 

 mon, within and just outside the aperture the shell callus honey 

 yellow ; impressed sutural band white. Length 20.3 mm., greater 

 diameter 13.3 mm., spire height 10.8 mm. 



A narrow shell measures: Length 18.0 mm., greater diameter 11.5 

 mm., spire height 10.3 mm. 



Group of A. a. apexfulva Dixon 



ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA APEXFULVA Dixon 



Plate 3, Figure 27; Plate ii, Figures 17-19 



Helix Apex Fulva Dixon, A voyage round the world ; but more particularly 



to the north-west coast of America, p. 354, Turbo Apex Fulva Dixon, on 



unnumbered plate, 1789. 

 Achatinella apexfulva Dixon, Pilsbry and Cooke, Man. Conch., vol. 22, 317, 



pi. 50, fig. 15; pi. 60, figs. 1-16 (only), 1914. 

 Turbo lugubris, etc., Chemnitz, Neues Syst. Conch. Cabinet, vol. 11, p. 278, 



pi. 209, figs. 2059-2060, 1795. 

 Helix lugubris Chemnitz, Ferussac, Tabl. Syst., Fam. Limagons, p. 56, 1821 



(not Helix lugubris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 13, p. 3665, 1791). — Ferussac, 



in Freycinet's Voyage autour du Monde de VUranie et la Physicienne, 



Zoologie, p. 479, 1824. — voN Martens, Malakozool. Blatt., vol. 19, p. 40, 1872. 

 Achatinella lugubris Chemnitz, Pfeififer, Monographia Heliceorum Viventurum, 



vol. 2, p. 239, 1848; vol. 3, p. 465, 1853; vol. 4 p. 542, 1859; vol. 6, p. 177, 



1868. — Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. 6, Achatinella, pi. 2, fig. 100 (not 10&), 



April 1850. 

 Monodonta sctninigra Lamark, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. 7, p. 27, 1822; 



2d ed., Deshayes and Edwards, vol. 9, p. 181, 1845. — Delessert, Recueil de 



Coq., Decrites par Lamark, pi. 27, figs. 2a-c, 1841. 

 Bulimus seminiger Menke, Synops. Method. Moll., 2d ed., p. 26, 1830. 

 Achatinella pica Swainson, Quart. Journ. Sci., Lit., and Art, January-March, 



p. 84, 1828; Zool. Illustr., ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 99, pi. 99, fig. i, 1832-1833. 



To quote from Dixon : 



the natives form necklaces, bracelets, and other ornaments : one of 



these necklaces afforded a singular species of the Helix genus of Linnaeus, which 

 I was informed is a fresh-water shell. It is outwardly smooth, has seven spires. 



