Original Descriptio7is of Achatinella. 153 



liqua, irregulariter semielliptica, ad columellam angulata, quasi in rostrum 

 producta; perist. rectum, intus albolabiatum, margine dextro subrepando, 

 columellari parum dilatato, adnato. Long. 15, diaui. 8 mill. 



Shell imperforate, dextral, ovate-conic, solid, irregularly stri- 

 ated, somewhat shining, brown, blotched with tawny; spire ven- 

 trose-conic, apex somewhat acute; whorls 6, the upper 4 hardly 

 convex, the last rotundate, nearlj* equal to 2-5 of the length; colu- 

 mellar fold almost basal, acute, oblique; aperture hardly oblique, 

 irregularly semielliptical, angulate at the columella, extending 

 somewhat like a beak ; lip erect, thickened with white within, 

 dextral margin slightly reflexed, scarcely dilated at the columella, 

 adnate. 



Hab. ? 



263. Achatinella tenuilabris Gulick. 



Amasha tenuilabris Gk. P. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 83, pi. x, fig. 16, 



Testa dextrorsa, ovato-conica, haud nitens, incrementi lineis subrugose 

 striata, sub epidermide fulvida (in anfract. ult. infra suturam plerumque 

 detrita ) alba; anfract. 5 1-2, convexiusculi; apertura subquadrata, alba spi- 

 ram non^equans; perist. tenue; columella recta, plica parva medio munita, 

 labro callo tenuissimo juncta. Long. 15, diam. 8 mill. 



Shell dextral ovate-conic, scarcely shining, almost roughly 

 striate with lines of growth, tawn}^ under the epidermis (often on 

 the last whorl worn away below the stiture), white; whorls 51-2, 

 somewhat convex; aperture subquadrate, white, not equal to the 

 spire; lip thin; columella erect, furnished at the middle with a 

 small fold, joined to the lip by a thin callus. 



Hab. ? 



It is doubtful where to place this shell. Mr. Gulick says it 

 ma}- be allied to A. flavescens Newc, found on the Island of 

 Hawaii. 



264. Achatinella conicospira Smith. 



Amaslra conicospira Sm.. P. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 86, pi. x, fig. 10. 



Testa ovato-conica, dextrorsa, incrementi lineis striata, sordide albida, 

 epidermide olivacea partim induta; anfract. 7, planiusculi, primi 3-4 dilute 

 rubescentes, sequentes 2 fusco-purpurascentes ; spira recte conica ; sutura 

 simplex; apertura sordide alba; perist. tenue, intus fuscescens, haud incras- 

 satum; plica columellaris tenuis. Long. 20 1-2, diam. 10 mill. 



Shell ovate-conic, dextral, .striate with lines of growth, dirty 

 white, partly covered with an olive epidermis; whorls 7, somewhat 

 flat, first 3-4 pale reddish, the following 2 brown-purple ; spire 

 exactly conical; suture simple; aperture dirty white; lip thin, 

 brownish within, .scarcely thickened; columellar fold thin. 



Hab. ? 



