184 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO3 



The shell may be more strongly banded (pi. ii, fig. 21) and more 

 obese ; postembryonic whorls pallid mouse gray faintly axially streaked 

 with mouse gray, above the periphery spirally ornamented with faint 

 lines and a band of warm blackish brown, base naples yellow banded 

 with warm blackish brown; the impressed sutural band vinaceous 

 fawn on the first whorl, on the penultimate the ground color, on the 

 last whorl the base of the band shaded with warm blackish brown. 

 Length 18.8 mm., greater diameter 13.0 mm., spire height 9.5 mm. 



One specimen (pi. 11, fig. 21a) has the postembryonic whorls warm 



blackish brown, banded on the first whorl with white, the remaining 



whorls with extremely faint lines of white or pallid mouse gray. 



Length 18.0 mm., greater diameter 12. i mm., spire height 8.8 mm. 



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ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA OIOENSIS, new subspecies 



Plate 3, Figure 22; Plate ii, Figures 22, 220 



The shell is a close relative of A. a. paunialuensis, but having a 

 series of different color patterns ; the embryonic whorls of the holo- 

 type (pi. 3, fig. 33) are pale pinkish cinnamon; postembryonic whorls 

 above the periphery diamine brown, below the edge of the periphery 

 of the last whorl ochraceous buff finely axially streaked with ochra- 

 ceous tawny, spirally banded with a band of diamine brown and fine 

 lines of russet, in the umbilical region a patch of black or diamine 

 brown; impressed sutural band diamine brown; lip and columella 

 callus fawn color. Length 18.0 mm., greater diameter 11.5 mm., 

 spire height 10.3 mm. 



Distribution, area 114: Oio-Oio East Branch Ridge, type 

 locality 460A, elevation 1,300 feet, Meinecke, 1933 (figs. 6, 6a, 



p. 185). 



The color pattern may lack the yellow base (pi. 11, fig. 22) ; post- 

 embryonic whorls liver brown, last whorl and a half faintly banded 

 above the periphery, last whorl just below the edge of the periphery 

 with a band of mars yellow almost obscured by axial streaks of liver 

 brown ; lip and columella callus pale vinaceous fawn, outer edge of the 

 lip bone brown ; impressed sutural band the color of the ground. The 

 lightest color pattern (pi. 11, fig. 22a) has the postembryonic whorls 

 light buff deepening to ochraceous buff on the last whorl, axially 

 streaked with tawny, last whorl and a quarter at the edge of the 

 periphery and about the base banded with diamine brown ; impressed 

 sutural band black. Length 17.0 mm., greater diameter 12.3 mm., 

 spire height 8.7 mm. 



