MILLIPED GENUS DIXIORIA — ^HOFFMAN 15 



Dixioria pela wrighti, new subspecies 



Figure 1,/ 



Type specimens: Holotype, allotype, and paratype (USNM 2014), 

 collected along the east side of Grandfather Mountam about 5 miles 

 northeast of Linville, Avery County, N. C. (U. S. Highway 221), on 

 Aug. 3, 1949, R. L. Hoffman. 



Diagnosis: This is one of the most distinct members of the genus. 

 Prefemoral process of gonopod elongate, slender, and distally bent at 

 a right angle; femur very slender, bent at two places rather than 

 eveiSy arcuate ; process B of tibiotarsus very large, becoming broader 

 distally and abruptly truncate, and widely separated from the recurved 

 end of the solenomerite. 



Ecology: The specimens taken by me were collected from beneath 

 slabs of bark and under logs residual to a roadside lumbering opera- 

 tion. The elevation was about 3,200 feet, and the locality had been 

 well-drained mesic forest. A large number of immature specimens of 

 the salamander Plethodon yonahlossee Dunn was found. 



Distribution: On and adjacent to the Blue Ridge proper in the 

 vicinity of the Grandfather Mountain massif in Avery and Watauga 

 Counties, N. C, and probably in adjacent counties as well. Geo- 

 graphically as well as morphologically, wrighti is intermediate between 

 pela and coronata. Collections made in the area north of Grandfather 

 Mountain, particularly in Ashe County, N. C, and Johnson County, 

 Tenn., are needed to close the present gap between the known ranges 

 of the two. Known from the following localities: 



North Carolina. Avery County: On U. S. Highway 221, about 1 mile north 

 of its intersection with the Blue Ridge Parkway, Hoflfman, Aug. 3, 1949 (RLH) ; 

 west side of Grandfather Mountain, between Banner Elk and Newland, Hoffman, 

 May 30, 1953 (RLH); "Blowing Rock to Linville," 3,000 to 4,000 feet, collector 

 not stated, Sept. 7, 1930 (MCZ). Watauga County: Howard's Creek, at Boone, 

 Mike Wright, Aug. 25, 1948 (RLH). 



The specimen from Boone appears to be an intergrade, being hke 

 m-ighti in the shape of the prefemoral process and like coronate as 

 regards the tibiotarsal processes. Much collecting still needs be done 

 in the western part of Avery County, where pela and wrighti appear 

 to intergrade, 



Dixioria dactylifera, new species 



Figure 2 



Type specimens: Male holotype and topoparatypes of both sexes 

 (AMNH), collected at Mill Hill, Ashe County, N. C, by C. M. and 

 R. D. Breder in August 1910. Male paratype (USNM). 



