MILLIPEDS KEETON 47 



Brachoria splcndida (Causey), new combination 



Figure 8d-f 



Cleptoria splendida Causey, Ent. News, vol. 53, pp. 167-168, fig. 5, 1942. 

 Tucoria spendida, Chamberlin, Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., vol. 8, No. 2, p. 17, 



1943. 

 Tucoria dynama Chamberlin, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 99, p. 29, 



fig. 16, 1947. 



Diagnosis: Distinguished from all other species of the genus by 

 the presence of a very pronounced ridge along the cephalic side of the 

 distal half of the postcingular portion of the telopodite of the male 

 gonopod. 



Description: Length of male holotype, 49 mm.; width, 11 mm.; 

 length of other male specimens, 45-49 mm.; width, 10-11 mm. 



Colliun subellipsoidal, edges somewhat irregidarly curved, ends of 

 paranota narrowly rounded; paranotal swellings absent; ridges on 

 cephalic margins of paranota present only on proximal half. 



Paranotal swellings absent on segments 2 and 3, present on 4th 

 and all succeeding segments. Paranota of segment 2 and all succeed- 

 ing midbody segments rather square, those from segment 8 on wdth 

 caudolateral corners produced very slightly caudad. 



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

 with pair of prominent processes; sternum of 5th legs with pair of 

 weak, widely separated processes; sternum of 6th legs with no proc- 

 esses. 



Coxal armature moderate. 



Male gonopods large (about 2.0 mm. in telopodite arc length and 

 2.7 mm. in arc width) ; heavy and stout; curving mesiad, then cephalo- 

 dorsad, then dorsad; distal half of postcingular portion of telopodite 

 very heavy and bulky, a very prominent ridge extending along 

 cephalic side, telopodite slightly excavate on caudolateral side of 

 this ridge, seminal groove following this ridge to its end and then 

 moving out on peglike solenomerite; cingulum large and conspicuous; 

 precingular and postcingular portions of telopodite subequal in 

 length. Prefemoral spine irregidar, sometimes small, sometimes 

 moderately long and strong, often with a small accessory spine near 

 its base. 



Color dark brown above with yellow on paranota and a median 

 yellow spot on caudal margin of each tergite including coUum; 

 collum with an additional median yellow spot on its cephalic margin, 

 the two yellow spots almost uniting to form an hour-glass mark; 

 legs and underparts pale yellow. 



Type locality: Pine Mountain State Park, Bell County, Ky. 

 This is also the ij^e locality for Tucoria dynama Chamberlin. 



