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Type specimens: Male holotype and male paratype in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 

 New distribution record: 



Alabama: Lawrence County: Kings Cove, June 29, 1950 (1 cf), G. E. Ball. 



Discussion: The author has on hand a specimen from a location 

 considerably north of the type locality for this species. This speci- 

 men shows a number of minor differences in the distal end of the telo- 

 podite of the male gonopod. These differences are not deemed 

 worthy of nominal recognition. For a description and drawing of the 

 type specimen, the reader is referred to Hoffman's original description 

 (1948a). The description given above is based primarily on the new 

 specimen and most of the drawings are of this specimen. 



This specimen, the gonopods of which more closely resemble the 

 usual Brachoria type, plays an important role in the decision to con- 

 sider Anfractogon as a synonym of Brachoria. The modifications of 

 the distal end of the telopodite in this species are no more elaborate 

 than those found in electa and hqffmani which they somewhat resemble. 

 Unusual modifications of the distal end of the telopodite seem to be 

 the rule rather than the exception in this genus. 



Brachoria turneri, new species 



Figure 9e-g 



Diagnosis: Distinguished from all other species of the genus by the 

 combination of the simple form and great bulk of the telopodite of the 

 male gonopods. 



Description: Length of male holotype, 45 mm.; width, 10.5 mm.; 

 length of females, 47-50 mm.; width, 11.5-12 mm. 



Collum subellipsoidal, edges gently curved, ends of paranota rounded ; 

 paranotal swellings absent; ridges along cephalic margins of paranota 

 absent. 



Paranotal swellings absent from 2d segment, very weak on 3d 

 segment, somewhat stronger on 4th and succeeding segments. Para- 

 nota of segments 2-4 rounded; paranota of segments 5-13 rather 

 square; paranota of posterior segments bluntly triangular. 



Sternum of 3d pair of legs with usual processes; sternum of 4th legs 

 with pair of very weak processes; sterna of 5th and 6th legs with no 

 processes. 



Coxal armature weak. 



Male gonopods large (about 2.3 mm. in telopodite arc length and 

 2.5 mm. in arc width); curved mesiad, then rather abruptly dorsad; 

 portion of telopodite distal to point of strongest mesial curvature very 

 wide, much wider than more proximal portion; a curving ridge along 



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