no. seat) CLEPTORIA — HOFFMAN 11 



but do not differ in proportion or general appearance otherwise. This 

 specimen in life had reddish paranotal spots as normal for the genus. 



Newberry County is about 50 miles southeast of the type-locality 

 of C. macra. It is possible that additional material will show that 

 specimens from the two places differ consistently enough to receive 

 subspecific recognition, but such action can certainly not be made 

 or even predicted on the basis of only two specimens. 



Distribution. — Cleptoria macra so far is known from only two 

 localities in central and western South Carolina; however, it almost 

 certainly occurs also in adjacent parts of western North Carolina. 

 Specimens have been examined as follows : 



SOUTH CAROLINA: Greenville County: Taylors, d* holotype, ? 

 paratype, collected by R.V. Chamberlin, Aug. 5, 1910, RVC. Newberry County: 

 upland mixed woods, 5.5 miles north of Chappelle, lcf, collected by Leslie 

 Hubrieht, May 21, 1960, RLH. 



Cleptoria rileyi (Bollnian) 



This species originally was described (Bollman, 1888) in a very few 

 lines that indicate little more than family characters, but because of 

 the reference to the end of the male gonopod ("subsimilar to a bird's 

 head") (p. 345) it was possible for Dr. Chamberlin to correctly suspect 

 that C. rileyi was congeneric with his own G macra when that name 

 was proposed in 1939. It could not be known with certainty, however, 

 that specific differences existed, and Chamberlin was able to contrast 

 the two only by recourse to supposed differences in size and colora- 

 tion. H. F. Loomis, who subsequently examined the type of G. rileyi, 

 considered the two names to be synonymous, as the gonopods are in- 

 deed similar when seen under low magnification in situ. Having had 

 the opportunity to study the types of both names, I can confirm their 

 distinctness, which I think will be revealed by inspection of the 

 gonopod drawings. 



Specimens from eastern Alabama are obviously conspecific with 

 typical G rileyi but differ in details of the gonopod structure and, in 

 my opinion, probably represent a recognizable terminal geographic 

 race. O. F. Cook, who had studied one of the Alabama millipeds, had 

 in fact even designated it as a full species by the manuscript name 

 Fontaria alabama. 



Cleptoria rileyi as a species differs from other members of the genus 

 chiefly in gonopod characters as set forth in the foregoing key. The 

 telopodite lacks all traces of a prefemoral process, the apical part of 

 the postfemur is broadly lobate on the outer margin with the extreme 

 distal end directed proximad toward the coxa, the solenomerite is con- 

 vex and striate, and the seminal groove is bent at an acute angle. 



