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ing on Jan. 12, 1919) from Pukaloa, the next valley, I noticed 
their similarity, and thought that I had found a few A. spald- 
ingi. Itold Mr. Spalding later that I had found a few A. spald- 
ingi in Haleauau, but he only laughed and seemed to discredit 
the find. 
Upon my return from Kau, Hawaii, last September, I had 
the good fortune of meeting my old-time hiking partner and 
friend, Mr. Daniel B. Langford, whom I am sure you know 
quite well. I showed him the shells two days before he left 
here for Japan. On Oct. 9, 1920, I again went out, this time 
to look particularly for more of the new shells. I could not 
find any more banded P. dubia, but managed to get a few young 
specimens of the new shell [ Achatinella lehuiensis meinickei]. As 
before, these were all found under the bark of the smooth-leaved 
lehua trees, from within a foot of the ground to about six feet. 
Some were on the outside, crawling. The higher up the tree I 
went the less I found and the smaller the specimens. At ten 
or twelve feet above ground I found none, so I concluded to 
hunt ‘‘ off the ground.’’ Here again the shells seemed to be 
confined to a very small area, not more than a hundred feet 
across, or possibly 200 ft. Late in the afternoon, there being 
no other place to hunt (I had hunted every plant in sight, even 
the Hilo grass), I concluded to try the top of a large lehua tree 
on which I had found several young specimens. Here I found 
on the leaves, at the tip-top of the tree, some thirty to forty feet 
above the ground, several large shells which I believe to be 
adults. 
Again on Oct. 31, 1920, I went up the same trail to help the 
Trail and Mountain Club of Honolulu mark the trail to Kaala 
with signboards. I put in a good half-hour’s hunt of the very 
same lehua tree gone over two weeks before, and was rewarded 
by finding over a dozen good specimens of A. J. meineckei and 
several A. mustelina on the very same branches, side by side. 
Being on a tramping trip I had to move on, so I presume that 
there are at least a few more specimens still to be found. 
I kept the specimens alive for one week, then let them drown 
in water for about twenty hours, after which they were readily 
removed from their shells. I kept each animal and its shell 
