Original Descriptions oj Achatinella. 95 



2. Waianae Mountains, OaJiu. 



147. Achatinella lymaniana Baldwin. 



./. lymaniana Bald. P. Ac. Phila., 1895, p. 219, pi. x, figs. 12, 13. 



Shell sinistral, very minutely perforated, solid, ovate ; spire 

 convexly conical, apex subacute ; surface shining, covered with 

 fine incremental lines, under a strong lens showing minute decus- 

 sating striae ; apical whorls smooth, when not eroded. Color dark 

 purplish brown, sometimes with longitudinal or transverse white 

 flecks or zigzag lines ; a white line traversing the suture ; apex 

 light chestnut. Whorls 6, very lightly margined above, somewhat 

 convex; suture moderately impressed. Aperture oblique, white 

 within, sublimate ; peristome acute, thickened within, expanded, 

 the columellar margin slightly reflexed and covering the small 

 perforation, color white on both face and the reverse ; columella 

 white, terminating in a slightly developed flexuous fold. Length 

 20 1-2, diam. 11 1-2 mm. 



No opportunity for an examination of the animal has yet oc- 

 curred. This species is typically very distinct from any other 

 known species of the bulimoid section of Achatinella. — Bald. 



Hab. Waianae Mts. — Bald. 



This species is the only one of the sedtion found in the Waia- 

 nae Mts. 



