164 Original Descriptions of Achatinella. 



Animal extended in motion longer than the shell. Mantle 

 dark brown with a margin of lighter shade. Foot light brown, 

 the superior portion and sides studded with large spots of deeper 

 shade. Tentacles short, stout, ver}' dark brown. — Bald. 



Hab. Kamalo. — Bald. 



390. Achatinella pullata Baldwin. 



Amastra pullata Bald. P. Ac. Phil., 1895, p. 228, pi. xi, figs. 31,32. 



Shell dextral, imperforate, solid, elongately ovate; surface 

 lustreless, covered with rather close, irregular, growth striae ; the 

 embrj^onic whorls finely radiately sulcated ; color light brown; 

 covered with a black fugacious epidermis, dense on the last whorl, 

 more sparsely distributed on the upper whorls, worn off in front of 

 the aperture; apex dark brown; whorls 7, convex; suture well im- 

 pressed; aperture oval, a trifle oblique, white within with a pur- 

 plish tinge; peristome acute, slightly thickened wdthin, edge dark 

 purple; columella purplish white, fiexuous, abruptly terminating 

 in a broad, thin, slightly arched lamellar plait. Length 23, diam. 

 II 1-2 mm. 



Unlike most of the Amastra [sic], which generally have dark 

 dingy colored animals, this species has a beautiful, almost white 

 animal. The after portion and edges of the foot under a lens are 

 seen to be closely studded with minute pink spots which give 

 these parts a delicate pink hue. — Bald. 



Hab. Waikolu.— Bald. 



291. Achatinella violacea Newcomb. 



A. violacea Newc. P. Zool. Soc. I^oudon, 1S53, p. 135, pi. xxii, fig. 14. 



Shell dextral, ovately oblong, solid; suture plain and deeph- 

 impressed ; aperture ovate ; columella short, terminating with a 

 white twisted plait ; lip simple, color violaceous suffused with 

 white. Long. 21-20, lat. 11-20 poll. 



Hab. Mapulehu to Halawa. — Bald. 



292. Achatinella petricola Newcomb. 



A. pclricola Newc. Am. Jour. Conch., 1866, ii, p. 211, pi. xiii, fig. 6. 



vShell dextral, acutel}- conical, longitudinally coarsely striated; 

 whorls 6, rounded, sometimes the last one inflated; suture simple, 

 well impressed ; aperture ovate ; lip acute, slightly thickened 

 within; columella rather long, with a subcentral revolving plait; 

 often with an umbilicus; color dark corneous, outer and columellar 

 lips margined externally with white or yellowish white. Long. 

 .5, lat. .25 in. 



