368 UNRECOGNIZED SPECIES. 



ovate, rather solid, irregularly striate, glossy, white; spire 

 convexly conic, the apex rather acute ; suture simple ; whorls 

 5, a little convex, the last a little longer than the spire, 

 rounded ; columellar fold above, strong, nodif orm ; aperture a 

 little oblique, obauriform; peristome thickly labiate within, 

 the right margin shortly expanded, columellar margin re- 

 flexed, adnate. Length 16, diam. 10^2 nun. Sandwich Islands, 

 Dr. Frick in Cuming coll." (Pfr.). 



Achatinella faba PFR., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, p. 30; 

 Monographia, vi, p. 164. Cf. Sykes, Fauna Hawaiiensis, p. 

 307. 



A lost species, which Mr. Sykes could not trace in the 

 British Museum. By the small size, convexly conic spire and 

 thick lip it seems referable to the fuscobasis series of Buli- 

 mella, though the proportion of length to diameter is more 

 like typical Achatinella ("Apex"). It is smaller than any 

 Bulimella except some of the fuscobasis group ; the size being 

 more like A. curia and its allies. 



Like most of the Frick shells described by Pfeiffer, this was 

 apparently based upon an exceptional individual. Many 

 species have a white phase among other patterns. Such al- 

 binos are usually easy enough to classify because of their oc- 

 currence in colonies of colored shells; but a white shell, pos- 

 sibly of extreme or unusual shape, and without definite local- 

 ity, may sometimes baffle the most sapient Achatinellist. 

 When we have to deal with an unfigured form of which the 

 type is lost, there seems no reasonable ground for keeping it 

 out of the discard. It can never be positively identified. 



Molluscorum Systema et Catalogus, Fr. Paetel, von Dr. L. 

 W. Schaufuss, 1869, contains the following names, without 

 references, and partly with a query in place of the authority. 

 Besides these there are numerous errors in the spelling of 

 other names, and wrong authorities are often given. 



Achatinella agathat Sandw. I., p. 83. 

 bensoniat Sandw. I., p. 83. 

 havaiana Ev., Sandw. I., p. 83. 

 magnificat Sandw. I., p. 83. 

 scamnata Fer., Sandw. I., p. 84. 



