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U.S. Hy. 178, 1 mile north of intersection with S.C. Rt. 228, ca. 4 miles 

 south of Rocky Bottom, Pickens County, S.C; collected by R. L. 

 Hoffman, July 15, 1949. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to nominate subspecies in structural details 

 except for slight difference in termination of gonopod (cf. figs. 19 and 

 20), and for color pattern, in which red pigmentation is replaced by 

 dark bluish purple, almost concolorous with dorsal color. 



Distribution. — This form is known to occur on the Blue Ridge in 

 the strict sense as well as on Pisgah Ridge, and presumably these two 



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Polk 



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Figure 21. — Distribution of Cleptoria divergens in western South Carolina and adjoining 



counties in North Carolina. 



-state line 



O C. d. divergens ® C. d. nigrescens 



1 = Landrum 3 = Caesar's Head 



2 = U.S. Highway 25 4 = Sassafras Mountain 



county lines 



X intermediate population 

 5 = Horsepasture River Gorge 

 6=Pink Beds 



populations are connected by others in the intermediate high country 

 west of Brevard, N.C, around the headwaters of the French Broad 

 River (see fig. 21). The following specimens have been examined: 



SOUTH CAROLINA: Pickens County: south slope of Sassafras Moun- 

 tain, 1 mile west of intersection with S.C. Hy. 288, on U.S. Hy. 178, 2 cf cf , 1 9 , 

 types collected by R. L. Hoffman, July 15, 1949, USNM, RLH. 



NORTH CAROLINA: Transylvania County: Field station of Highlands 

 Biological Station in Horsepasture River Gorge, ca. 4 miles south of Lake Toxaway, 

 4 cf, 4? , collected by W. H. Adams and J. R. Paul, July 16, 1961; Chubb Gap 

 Trail, Pink Beds Recreation Area, ca. 8 miles north-northwest of Brevard, 1 9 , 

 collected by R. L. and Marian S. Hoffman, July 30, 1958; 2 cf , 1 9 , July 13, 1962. 



