86 MOLLUSCA. 
the lip slightly expanded: the columellar fold white, compressed, 
nearly transverse, and standing out very prominently. 
Length seven-eighths of an inch ; breadth half an inch. 
Found on the island of Maui, Sandwich Islands, at the foot of 
Mount Haleakala. Drayton ; Brackenridge. 
A large, ventricose species, readily distinguished by its variegated 
colouring. 
Figures 94, 94 a, two views of the shell. 
ACHATINELLA NUBILOSA (Gould). 
Testa solidula, ovato-conica, ventricosa, cinereo-lutescens, fusco-viridis 
angulatim flammulata et reticulata, ad apicem castanea: spira an- 
Sractibus septem convexis: apertura lunata, eburnea ; labro acuto, 
dilatato ; plica columellari acuta, lamelliformé. 
SHELL rather solid, ovate-conic, ventricose, delicately striated, 
covered with a thin epidermis of a diluted golden-yellow colour, 
variegated with dusky green, forming a network by its zigzag mark- 
ings on the middle whorls, and becoming predominant towards the 
base ; the apicial whorls chestnut-brown. Whorls about seven, well 
rounded, the last one about three-fifths the length of the shell. Aper- 
ture rounded lunate, ivory-white, the lip sharp and a little everted ; 
columellar fold prominent, sharp, lamelliform. 
Length seven-eighths of an inch; breadth not quite half an inch. 
Inhabits the island of Maui, Sandwich Islands. 
This species belongs to the same group as A. ventulus, but is well 
distinguished by its peculiar coloration. 
Figure 95, view of the shell. 
