N0 - 3630 CLEPTORIA — HOFFMAN 17 



ALABAMA: Lee County: Auburn, cf cf 9 9 , types, collected by O. F. 

 Cook, July 1896, USNM; 4.5 miles southwest of Auburn, 1 d\ paratype, col- 

 lected by L. Hubricht, Apr. 4, 1960, RLH. 



Cleptoria bipraesidens, new species 



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Holotype. — Adult male, USMN 3246, from Jefferson, Jackson 

 County, Ga., collected by Leslie Hubricht, Apr. 4, 1953. 



Diagnosis. — A species of Rileyi Group characterized by distal end 

 of gonopod, which is slender and elongate and without striations 

 parallel to seminal groove, and by color pattern of transverse red 

 crossbands. 



Description of holotype. — Length ca. 45.0 mm, width of sixth 

 segment 11.0 mm, width of twelfth segment 11.0 mm, width of 

 sixteenth segment 10.0 mm. L/W ratio 24 percent; W/D ratio at 

 segment 12 59 percent. 



Structural details in general as described for C. rileyi but with 

 following exceptions: 



Antennae slightly longer in proportion, 8.0 mm in length; inter- 

 antennal isthmus wider, 1.7 mm, 21 percent of antennal length. 



Collum not broader than following tergite. 



Peritremata less distinctly elevated, somewhat broader and flatter 

 than in C. rileyi, their lateral edges slightly sinuous on poriferous 

 segments. Dorsal surface of paranota less coriaceous, nearly as smooth 

 as middorsal area. 



Paraprocts smooth but mesial margins elevated abruptly only along 

 ventral half. Above level of marginal setae, margins only slightly 

 elevated and merging gradually into discal paraproctal surface. 

 Hypoproct broadly triangular in outline with distinct median 

 projection. 



Sterna produced into low but distinct subcorneal lobes at bases of 

 posterior pair of legs, these lobes most distinctive on segments 8-14. 

 Row of 3-6 large setae extending mesad from coxal base of each leg of 

 anterior pair; sternal lobes between posterior legs of each segment 

 carrying rounded field of about 12-18 setae, this arrangement constant 

 for most segments. 



Posterior edge of gonopod aperture distinctly elevated into high 

 flange above intercoxal surface of segment 7. Gonopods similar to 

 C. rileyi except that recurved distal part of telopodite is flat instead of 

 strongly convex, distinctly more slender and elongated, and seminal 

 grooved not paralleled by numerous striations. 



Color in life black dorsally, with posterior corners of paranota, 

 broad transverse band on caudal edges of metatergites, and circum- 

 ference of collum red; underparts grayish white, legs pink basally, 

 becoming reddish distally. 



