O rig 171 a I Descriptions of Achatindla. 123 



Oue specimen is of the followino: dimensions: 



Length 0.85 in. (21 3-5 mill.), breadth 0.52 in. (13 2-5 mill.). 



Length of aperture 0.43 in. (11 mill.). 



Weight 7.00 grains. 



Var. E. Finely and faintly streaked with whitish lines. 



Var. F. Whitish marble gray ; lip, columella and fauces 

 ivory white. 



Var. G. Exterior ashy, without polish; lip ivory white; colu- 

 mella plicate: passes into A. indiita Nob. 



Var. H. Variegated with black, white and brown, perforate, 

 columella more distinctly plicate: passes into A. pcrdix Reeve. 



Station. On the Ilima (Sida), Ki {Cordyline tcnninalis) and 

 other low bushes. — E. Bailey. 



Remarks. This species is smaller in size and more acuminate 

 in form than A. pcrdix, and differs in having the umbilicus open 

 and deeply perforated, and the columellar fold less prominent. — Gk. 



Hab. Mountain ridges of Waihee. — (E. Bailey)Gk. 



Baldwin places it with A. pcrdix Rve. 



6. Shells from Hawaii. 



PHYSA GROUP. 

 198. Achatinella physa Newcomb. 



./. I>hy!,a Xcwc. 1'. lioston Soc, 1855, p. 218. 



Shell sinistral, pointed at the summit, strongly inflated below, 

 rudely striated obliquely; whorls 6, first five flatly convex, the 

 last largely inflated and obsoletely carinated; suture simple and 

 deeply impressed; columella short, slightly callous, broad, and 

 partially covering a deep umbilicus; aperture large, .semiovate; 

 lip subrefledled below, thin and simple above. Color of a dingy 

 white, occasionally marked with yellow flammules, internally of a 

 light lemon yellow, sometimes white. Length 18-20, breadth 

 12-20 poll. 



Originally described in Zoological Proceedings, London, 1854, 

 plate 24, fig. 64. in an immature state. 



Hab. Mauna Kea and Kohala Mts. 



Fine specimens are now found beautifully banded. 



