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4220. '■'■ Partula ornata Anth'y MS., Moorea." Five specimens, 

 all pale, conspicuously strigate with brown ; one has faint traces of 

 spiral bands. Evidently a variety of P. strigosa Pfr. , = saturalis, var. ; 

 but the MS. name does not occur in Dr. Hartman's catalogues. 



4221. "Partula mooreana W. D. Hartman (type), Moorea Isl., 

 Marguesas " (not " Marguesas," but Society Islands, H. H. S.). Nine 

 specimens, three of which are banded. The types used by Dr. Hart- 

 man for his description of the species, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. , 

 1880, p. 229. A figure of the species was published by Garrett, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., IX, PI. Ill, Fig. 55. The habitat 

 given by Dr. Hartman in his MS. catalogue is " Vaianassa A^alley, 

 Moorea. ' ' In his original description hfe states that the shell is from 

 the Vaianai Valley, but this is distinctly contradicted by a letter from 

 Mr. Garrett, Feb. 10, 1879: "The complete peristome and well de- 

 veloped parietal tooth prove the reversed Moorea Partula to be full 

 grown. Your suggestion in regard to its being a hybrid is more to the 

 point, and when I first discovered it I nearly came to the same conclu- 

 sion. The vcxillnm (^= sufiiralis Pfr.), eloiigata 2L\\d si/ni/lans {tce- 

 niata vars. ) were found associated in a valley (elsewhere stated to be the 

 Vaianai Valley) two miles north of the habitat of the reversed species, 

 and I did not notice a single hybrid between the former and the two 

 latter. We must also take into consideration that sinistral vexilliiin are 

 very rare as compared with the dextral forms ; and the specimens under 

 consideration are all reversed and very uniform in color and fasciation. 

 Without positive proof I can not see how it can be considered a hybrid. ' ' 



4222. " Partula producta Pse. (type) (typical, H. H. S.), Tahiti, 

 Coll. Pse." Seven specimens, variously banded; in one the bands 

 coalesce, so that the entire shell is dark chestnut colored. 



4223. " Partula taeniata Mo rch, Moorea." Fourteen specimens, 

 all banded, but some very faintly. In Dr. Hartman's catalogue of the 

 Genus Partula, 1881, tceniata and its varieties are given as synonyms 

 of spadicea Rve. ; in later catalogues the preference is given to tcz- 

 niata. Writing Feb. 10, 1879, ^''^^- C^^rrett says: "Pfeiffer copied 

 Morch's description (of tc^/iita'), which does not harmonize as well 

 as I could wish with the Moorea shell. His "tfansversim irregulator 

 plicata " may ])Ossibly refer to the longitudinal lines of growth, and his 

 '■'■ longitiidinator striis u/idiilatis'' expresses the spiral incised lines. 

 Mr. Pease excluded tceniata (from his list of Polynesian land shells, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 187 1) on the supposition that it was a Viti 



