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Sterna gradually but distinctly elevated, beginning flush with caudal 

 edge of stricture, to form thin, overhanging transverse shelf between 

 coxae of posterior pair of legs of each segment, this shelf usually 

 flattened or depressed medially and produced into prominent subcoxal 

 lobes ("bilobed sterna" of my 1965 classification). Each metasternum 

 usually with a field of 6 to 10 setae adjacent to base of each posterior 

 coxa and short transverse row of setae at base of each anterior coxa. 



Legs moderately long and slender; coxae distally produced into small 

 acute spines; prefemora with longer, slightly curved distal spines. 

 Pretarsi (tarsal claws) slender, bisinuately curved, distinctly com- 

 pressed, and with prominent carinae on dorsal side. Sides of segments 

 nearly smooth, caudal edge of metazonite set off by fine elevated 

 marginal ridge preceded by depression in most species. Stigmata 

 large, pyriform-oval, subauriculate. 



Anterior legs shorter and heavier in males but not otherwise mod- 

 ified. Sternum of thud segment produced into prominent, bilobed 

 process between third pair of legs; sternum of segment 5 with two 

 pairs of small lobes or elevated areas between legs. 



Gonopods unusually large and robust, projecting forward between 

 legs of sixth segment, telopodites overlapping or interlocked. Coxae 

 massive, subglobose, without dorsal apophysis, connected by mem- 

 brane only, no sternal remnant evident. Prefemora small, with or 

 without small subtriangular process on dorsal side, femora abruptly 

 more slender, setose on lateral side, postfemoral element without 

 evident differentiation, usually prominently enlarged and flattened, 

 often with broad flange on medial side, apex recurved or bent proximad 

 at angle, usually a smaller and more sharply defined apical projection 

 carrying the seminal groove to the end. 



Cyphopods massive, subquadrate in general outline (figs. 15, 16), 

 receptacle forming at least a right angle and thus enclosing valves on 

 at least two sides; valves large, distally excavate, and transversely 

 striate; operculum small and displaced strongly proximad. 



Range. — Piedmont physiographic province of southeastern United 

 States, from west-central South Carolina, south into Georgia, west as 

 far as extreme eastern Alabama (fig. 12). 



Species. — Five species, two of them having two subspecies each, 

 are recognized as valid. One species, C. shelfordi Loomis (1944, p. 

 172), is removed herewith from Cleptoria pending relocation in 

 another generic group so far unpublished. The members of Cleptoria 

 appear to be localized, and several additional species are to be antici- 

 pated with further field work in Georgia. 



Key to Species of Cleptoria 



1. Telopodite of gonopod elongate, sigmoidally curved, the gonopods in situ 

 usually interlocked distally; dorsum black with purple or violet paranota 

 and crossbands divergens Chamberlin, p. 21 



