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Var. 6. Chestnut-brown with a yellowish horn-colored 

 sutural 'band. Very rare. 



Var. c. Uniform yellowish horn-color. Very rare. 

 They are all remarkably uniform in shape and size. ' ' 



41. P. AURICULATA Broderip. PI. 18, figs. 8 to 12. 



"Shell perforate, ovate-pyramidal, chestnut colored; 

 whorls 6, somewhat swollen, longitudinally striated. Aper- 

 ture white, ear-shaped, the lip flat and thick; a white tooth 

 on the internal lace of the last whorl. Length %, diam. % 

 inch. A variety is yellowish with the outer margin of the 

 aperture somewhat roseate. 



"The thick, flattened lips forming the aperture of this 

 species are so disposed as to give the mouth, in many in- 

 dividuals, the appearance of a key-hole, while in others it is 

 ear-shaped. ' ' (Brod. ) 



Raiatea, in the lower half of Hamoa valley, on the east 

 coast near the north end of the island; it has spread north- 

 ward in two small valleys (Garrett, for P. oompacta) ; 

 Utuloa, north end of Raiatea, in great profusion, with 

 P. faba (Garrett, for P. auriculata) ; arboreal. 



Partula auriculata BRODERIP, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1832, p. 125. 

 REEVE, Conch. Syst., ii, pi. 175, figs. 7, 8. PEASE, Amer. 

 Jour. Conch., 1866, p. 201. SCHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeff., 

 iv, p. 71. HARTMAN, Cat. Part., p. 7, with woodcut; Obs. 

 Gen. Part,, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. ix, pp. 180, 186, 192. 

 GARRETT, Journ. A. N. S. P. ix, 1884, p. 58. f Partula 

 tahulana ANTON, Verz. Conch., p. 40 (1839), nude name; 

 (quoted tabulana by Garrett). Partulus auriculatus BECK, 

 Ind. Moll., p. 58. Bulimus auriculatus PFEIFFER, Symb., i, 

 p. 80; ii, p. 111. Bulimus otaheitanus PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel., 

 ii. p. 71 (part). Partula otaheitana REEVE (not of Bru- 

 guiere), Conch. Icon., pi. 2, fig. \\a, b. Partula robusta 

 PEASE (MS. coll. Pease, 1863), SMITH, Annals Carnegie Mus. 

 i, p. 436, no. 4140, 4141. Partula tahitana SCHMELTZ (not 

 of Gould), Cat. Mus. Godeff., v, p. 92. PEASE, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc., 1871, p. 473. f f Partula maura Muhl. ANTON, Ver- 



