H4 Original Descriptions of Achatinella. 



brovvu liueations more or less numerous encircling the three lower 

 whorls; aperture and lip yellowish. Found on kukui trees. Long. 

 17/20, lat. 9/20 poll. 



Hab. Wailuku. — Newc. Mauna Hoomaha, Houokowai. — 

 Thaanum. 



184. Achatinella talpina Gulick. 



A. talpina Gk. Ann. Lye. New York, vol. vi, 1856, p. 212, pi. vii, fig. 38. 



Shell dextral, slightly perforate, elongate, ovate-conic, rather 

 thin, subcorueous, not shining, finely striated, beneath the lens 

 scarcely decussated, brown with a whitish band encircling the base, 

 covered with a thin brown ash velvety epidermis; apex somewhat 

 obtuse, tessellated with white and chestnut; spire regularly coni- 

 cal ; suture simple, moderately impressed ; whorls nearly 7, con- 

 vex ; the last regularly rounded, equal to 62/100-67/100 of the 

 length; columella strongly plaited above; aperture semiorbicular, 

 brownish white within; peristome thickened within, scarcely re- 

 flected anteriorly; with columellar margin white, and reflected 

 over the deep perforation ; parietal margin wanting. 



Length 0.85 in. (21 3-5 mill.), breadth 0.47 in. (12 mill.). 



Length of aperture 0.36 in. (9 mill.). 



Average weight 5.50 grains. 



Var. B. With apex corneous, without tessellations; very rare. 



Var. C. Veutricose ; spire short, curvilinear. A small speci- 

 men has the following dimensions : 



Length 0.67 in. (17 mill.), breadth 0.42 in. (10 2-3 mill.). 

 Length of aperture 0.30 in. (7 2-3 mill.). 

 Average weight 4.50 grains. 



Station. On the Kukui (Alcurites mohucana) . — E. Bailey. 



Remarks. This species passes into A. Gouldii Newc. Much 

 handling gradually removes the epidermis from the shell, leaving 

 the surface more or less polished. — Gk. 



Hab. Wailuku, rare. — (E. Bailey) Gk. 



The same as Goiildii Newc. — Bald. 



185. Achatinella indnta Gulick. 



A. induta Gk. Ann. Lye. New York, vol. vi, 1S56, p. 207, pi. vii, fig. 34. 



Shell dextral, perforate, conic-ovate, solid, unpolished, micro- 

 scopically very minutely and obsoletely decussated, brown; apex 

 subacute, tessellated with white and chestnut; spire convex and 

 conical; sutures lightly impressed, not margined; whorls 6, slight- 

 ly convex ; the last equal to 66/100-72/100 of the whole length; 



