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NEW VOkK. 



BOTAMCAt 



QARUtir^ 



I. 



Section ACHATINBLI/A Swainson. 



(Syn. APEX Von Martens.) 



/. Beginning at the south-eastern end of the is/and ofOahn. 



I. Achatinella cestus Newcotnb. 



-). cfiliii Xewc. V. Zool. Soc. r.otidon, iSss, P- 132; pi. xxii, fig. S. 



Shell solid, ventricose, sinistral or dextral, pointed at the 

 summit; whorls 6, rounded, corded above, last one tumid ; aper- 

 ture subovate ; columella short, strongly tuberculate ; lip slightly 

 expanded, thickened within ; colour of tip black, second and third 

 whorls white, three last white, yellowish or black or mixed, with 

 a white cinclure traversing the sutures and cutting the body whorl 

 below the centre, with or without a broader band below, some- 

 times with blotches or tessellations of black and white or longi- 

 tudinal undulating lines of the same colors ; columella chestnut ; lip 

 same color, interrupted with white. Long. 14/20, lat. 8/20 poll.* 



A fine .shell, approaching A. similans \^simulans\ of Reeve, 

 which it resembles in form, but from w^hich it differs strikingly 

 in its markings. — Newc. 



Hab. Palolo. — Newc. Niu and Wailupe. 

 This .shell does not seem to be related to any other of this 

 section. It is only found in the eastern valleys of Oahu. 



LOR AT A GROUP. 

 2. Achatinella lorata Kerussac. 



II, hx \( ,i,/,/,>ji,-ii,i\ hnii/ii iCr. I'lodroiiu-, 1X22, p. 60. 



Testa dcxtrorsa. ovato-conica, vertice acuto, nitida, striata, alba, colore 

 epiikrmali ; epidermide unicolore vel fasciis ornato ; aiifraitilnis 5 1-2, lequa- 

 liter cresceiilil^us; suturis niarKiiiatis; ai)ertura ovata, alba; columella 



♦One polU-x equals otu- iiicli. ('.1) 



