no. 3630 CLEPTORIA — HOFFMAN 21 



Remarks. — In addition to the eight specimens from the type- 

 locality, Cleptoria abbotti is known from a single male taken 2.8 miles 

 north of Cadley, Warren County, Ga. (collected by L. Hubricht, 

 May 30, 1960). Both of the localities are in the drainage system of 

 Briar Creek, a tributary of the Savannah River. This area was for 

 many years the residence of the early American amateur arachnologist 

 John Abbott, and it seems entirely appropriate to associate Abbott's 

 name with a species of milliped apparently endemic to the region in 

 which he carried on his work. 



Cleptoria divergens (Chamberlin), new combination 



This moderate sized, somewhat disjunct species was described 

 originally in Sigmoria, and, in fact, the male gonopod corresponds well 

 to the diagnosis given for that genus: "Includes large, robust species 

 which are characterized by the sigmoidally curved blade of the 

 telopodite." By actual comparison, however, with typical sigmorias 

 such as S. munda, S. aberrans, S. mariona, and S. conclusa, the gonopod 

 of S. divergens assumes a quite different appearance. The termination 

 of the telopodite, when seen from the correct perspective, is broadened 

 considerably and provided with a large rounded subapical lobe quite 

 reminiscent of that so characteristic of C. rileyi and C. abbotti. It 

 seems preferable to me to reassign S. divergens to the genus Cleptoria 

 although it is almost as "divergent" there as in Sigmoria and the 

 species is unquestionably a credit to its name. 



There is striking geographic variation in the color pattern of this 

 relatively localized form. Chamberlin's types were black with red 

 dorsal markings and legs; in going southwest along the Blue Ridge, 

 the red pigment changes to an intense dark bluish purple that merges 

 with the black ground color. As there is a small but distinctive geo- 

 graphic range occupied by these two variants, I think they may be 

 distinguished by subspecific names as shown in the following key: 



Metatergites nearly black with caudal margins and paranotal spots red; basal 

 podomeres yellow, distal four reddish . . . divergens divergens (Chamberlin) 



Metatergites nearly black, with caudal margins and paranotal spots deep violet 

 purple; legs whitish, reticulated with black . . divergens nigrescens (Hoffman) 



Cleptoria divergens divergens (Chamberlin), new status 



Figures 1, 17-19, 21 



Sigmoria divergens Chamberlin, 1939, p. 8, figs. 19-21.— Hoffman, 1950, p. 28.— 

 Chamberlin and Hoffman, 1958, p. 49. 



Type-specimens.— Male holotype and numerous topoparatypes, 

 RVC, from Landrum, Spartanburg County, S.C., collected by R. V. 

 Chamberlin, Aug. 4, 1910. 



Diagnosis. — With characters of the species, distinguished from 

 C. d. nigrescens by presence of normal red pigmentation of metatergites 

 and legs. 



