ACHATINELLA APEXFULVA. 325 



N. H. of N. Y., vi, p. 325. Apex gulickii SMITH, P. Z. S~ 

 1873, p. 78, pi. 9, f. 19 (not f. 17). Apex lilaceus GULICK, 

 P. Z. S., 1873. p. 79, pi. 10, f. 4. Achatinella aptycha Pfr., 

 LYONS, Hawaiian Almanac for 1892, pi. 12, f. 32. 



Typical apicata is figured on pi. 60, figs. 4 to 4c. A lot re- 

 ceived from Newcomb in 1856 agrees fully with a large series 

 in the Gulick collection from "Wahiawa." The shells are 

 dextral in large majority. The embryonic whorls are flattened 

 and more or less nipple-like, as in apexfulva, and usually are 

 between ochraceous orange and ochraceous tawny in color. 

 The later whorls are closely, unevenly streaked in varying 

 shades Prussian red, dark livid slate purple or dull purplish 

 black, leaving narrower streaks of the ivory or ochraceous 

 buff ground. Sometimes darker or lighter spirals are faintly 

 visible, and rarely an indistinct lighter band at the periphery. 

 The suture usually has a narrow rufous border, rarely white. 

 Occasional shells are warm blackish brown without streaks. 

 Lip fleshy tinted. Except by the usually darker tint of the 

 apex, these dark shells closely resemble typical A. apexfulva. 

 Length 20, diam. 13.8 mm. or somewhat smaller. 



There is also a large set from Wahiawa collected by Gulick 

 having the typical whitish streaking on a blackish purple 

 ("taupe brown") ground, slightly darker than fig. 4c, the 

 embryonic whorls ivory yellow, nearly white. 



A large lot collected by Dr. Cooke "on low ridges and val- 

 leys, Wahiawa" consists of dextral and sinistral shells in 

 about equal numbers. The blackish and the blue-streaked 

 forms figured from Kaukinehua are present, sutural band 

 hazel to orange or rarely white; apex light ocher or cream 

 color. Other shells are vinaceous gray with whitish streaks 

 and bands. Others of various shades of dull brown, with dark 

 spiral lines and whitish bands (gulickii pattern), or not 

 banded (pi. 60, figs. 5 to 5&). 



The localities of the lots described above are unfortunately 

 rather indefinite, as "Wahiawa" may be anywhere between 

 Poamoho and Waikakalaua. 



In north Kaukinehua near the Ahonui ridge, Mr. Spalding 

 collected from the "burnt forest" in a colony (no. 574) where 



