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Type locality: High Knob, Cumberland Gap, Wise County, Va. 

 Known only from the type locality. 



Type specimens: 13 males and one female collected by Leslie 

 Hubricht, June 17, 1950. Male holotype, three male paratypes, 

 and female allotype in the U. S. National Museum. Male paratype 

 in the Chicago Natural History Museum. Four male paratypes in 

 collection of Mr. R. L. Hoffman. Four male paratypes in the author's 

 personal collection. 



Discussion: Brachoria insolita provides a good demonstration of 

 the variability that can be expected in the prefemoral spine of the 

 gonopod when it is typically rather weak. The drawing (fig. 6e) of 

 the gonopods of this species shows a weak spine which is about average 

 size for insolita. Of the 13 males examined by the author, most varied 

 but little from this average size. Several, however, were slightly 

 longer, and one showed no trace of a spine. Species with larger, 

 heavier spines do not show this much variation. 



The present species is unusual in the genus in that the telopodite 

 arc is primarily in a plane oblique to the longitudinal axis of the body 

 rather than in a plane perpendicular to the body as in most other 

 species. For this reason no mesial view of the telopodite is given 

 among the drawings of the gonopods; a ventral view is given instead. 

 The new species mendota is the only other form in the genus with the 

 gonopods showing this type of positioning. 



Brachoria kentuckiana (Causey), new combination 



Figure Gg-i 



Fontaria kentuckiana Causey, Ent. News, vol. 53, p. 167, figs. 3, 4, 1942. 

 Cleptoria kentuckiana Causey, Ent. News, vol. 54, p. 264, 1943. 

 Tucoria kentuckiana, Chamberlin, Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., vol. 8, No. 2, 

 p. 17, 1943. 



Diagnosis: Distinguished from all other species of the genus by 

 the presence of a prominent pectinate solenomerite on the distal end 

 of the telopodite of the male gonopod. 



Description: Length of male holotype, 47.5 mm.; width, 11.7 mm.; 

 length of female allotype, 52 mm.; width, 12.4 mm. 



Collum with moderate anterior ridge, 



Paranota of first few segments square; paranota of 9th segment 

 with caudolateral corners produced very w^eakly caudad; paranota 

 of more posterior segments more strongly produced. 



Sternum of 3d pair of legs with usual processes; sterna of 4th and 5th 

 legs each with a pair of processes; sternum of 6th legs with only weak 

 trace of processes. 



Coxal armature weak. 



