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with a white line or a band, another sometimes alt the periph- 

 ery. The spire is usually darker, 'becoming chestnut or light- 

 brown at the summit. All but two of a large series in Mr. 

 Spalding 's collection 'are dextral. Length 20, diam, 12.1, 

 aperture 10.2 mm. ; 6 whorls. 



PI. 33, figs. 5 to 5c., coll. by Spalding. In Kaliuwaa valley, 

 about three-fourths of a mile east from the following colony 

 there is a patch of bananas upon which the shells vary from 

 about the color of the preceding colony to ivory yellow or 

 cream buff with or without two dusky bands; sometimes 

 white above the upper band. The spire is usually bicolored, 

 summit Indian red or brown. Shells -both sinistral and dex- 

 tral, mainly dextral. Some specimens resemble dbliqua and 

 oomorpha. 



PL 33, figs. 6, 6a, coll. by Spalding. At the bottom of Kaliu- 

 waa, along the stream back of a cabin, there is a colony sim- 

 ilar to the banded pattern of ov at a except that the embryonic 

 whorls are darker, usually dark vinaceous. This colony is 

 mainly sinistral, but contains some dextral shells. 



9&. A. BULIMOIDES SPADICEA Gulick. PL 33, figs. 13, 13a. 



The shell is sinistral, glossy, embryo mars brown, blackish 

 at the tip, becoming lighter on succeeding whorls, the last 

 whorl pale or light orange-yellow above, below the periphery 

 burnt sienna shading to chestnut downwards, and showing 

 faint traces of two darker bands. Sutural line white, extend- 

 ing to the apex. Lip chestnut, bordered outside with the 

 same; outer edge of the columella raised; columellar fold 

 white or tinted. The later whorls show only the weakest 

 traces of spiral sculpture. 



Length 17.6, diam. 10.5, aperture 9 mm.; 6 whorls (type). 



Length 17.5, diam. 11, aperture 8.5 mm. 



Oahu: Kahana, on trees (Gulick, type loc.) ; Hakipuu (Gu- 

 lick). 



Achatinella spadicea GULICK, Ann. Lye. N. H. of N. Y., vi, 

 p. 247, Feb., 1858. BALDWIN, Catalogue, p. 6 (" Hauula to 

 Kahana "). 



" The white sutural band is continued up to the very tip 



