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46. P. CONFUSA (Sykes). PL 16, figs. 1 to 12. 



* * Shell sinistral, pointed at the summit, strongly inflat3d 

 below, rudely striated obliquely. Whorls 6, first five flatly 

 convex, the last largely inflated 'and obsoletely carinated. 

 Suture simple and deeply impressed. Oolumella short, 

 slightly callous, 'broad, and partially covering a deep um- 

 bilicus. Aperture large, semiovate; lip subreflected below, 

 thin and simple above. Color of a dingy white, occasionally 

 marked with yellow flammules, internally of a light-lemon 

 yellow. Length 18, diam. 12-twentieths Qf an inch" (Newc.). 



Hawaii (Newcomb) ; Kohala (Baldwin) ; near Mana, Ham- 

 akua (Thaanum) ; Waimea plains; a very large form in fossil 

 deposits of Mana (Henshaw) ; Waimea side of Kohala Mts. 

 (L. A. Thurston). 



Achatinella physa NEWCOMB^ Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 v, p. 218, September, 1855; American Journ. Conch., ii, p. 

 214, pi. 13, f. 10, 1866. BALDWIN, Catalogue, p. 7 (Kohala) ; 

 Proc. A. N. S. Phila., 1895, p. 225 (animal). THWING, Re- 

 print Orig. Descript. Achat., pi. 2, f. 21. HENSHAW, Journal 

 of Malacology, xi, p. 57, 63, Sept., 1904. Achatinella (Par- 

 tulina) confusa SYKES, Fauna Hawaiiensis, ii, p. 312, 1900, 

 based upon A. physa Newcomb, Sept., 1855. Partulina 



