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subacuminate; cingulum located at point of strongest mesial curva- 

 ture; precingular portion of telopodite longer than postcingular portion. 

 Prefemoral spine moderately strong. 



Cyphopods large, their apertiu-e bordered caudally by weak mar- 

 ginal lip; receptacle large and strong; both valves with small median 

 dorsal concavity; valves subequal in length. 



Color faded in all specimens examined by the author. Causey's 

 description of henderi indicates color was dark brown with bright pink 

 on paranota. 



Type locality: Maplesville, Chilton County, Ala, 



Type sPECiMEisi: Private collection of R. V. Chamberlin. 



Type specimens of synonyms: Types of Brachoria brachyjms and 

 Brachoria henderi in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



Published distribution records: 



Mississippi: Rankin County: Piney Woods (type locality of henderi). Ten- 

 nessee: Roan County: Harriman (type locality of brachypus). 



New distribution records: 



Alabama: Lauderdale County: 8J4 miles northeast of Florence, Dec. 12, 1937 

 (1 c?), J. P. E. Morrison. Lee County: Chewacla State Park, May 6, 1954 

 (1(^, 19), Hubricht. Tuscaloosa County: Tuscaloosa, Mar. 29, 1948 (1 cf), 

 George Ball. Tennessee: Anderson County: Clinch River bluff, 4 miles south- 

 west of Clinton, May 10, 1951 (Id'), Hubricht. 



Discussion: Inasmuch as only female and immature paratypes 

 are present in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and no drawings 

 were included in the original description, the identity of ochra has long 

 been in doubt. Personal communications with Dr. Chamberlin now 

 make it possible to clear up the matter. A sketch of the gonopods of 

 ochra made by Chamberlin resembles exactly the drawing of Brachoria 

 seguens published by Chamberlin in 1939. Thus sequens must be 

 considered a junior synonym of ochra. The two were described from 

 the same type locality — ^Agricultural College, Oktibbeha Countj^, 

 Miss. 



At my request, Chamberlin kindly compared a specimen of B. 

 henderi Causey {=B. initialis Chamberlin) with his specimens of B. 

 ochra and found that they were very similar. The only difference that 

 he found was in the terminal portion of the male gonopods. In henderi 

 the terminal division is smaller, with the apical portion straight and 

 acute, while in ochra it is longer, more lamellate, bent at the distal end 

 into a somewhat spoon-like shape, and not so acute. Chamberlin sug- 

 gested that this difference might be varietal only. Careful examina- 

 tion of all available specimens has convinced me that this is actually 

 the case and that the two forms are at best only subspeciiically distinct. 



A specimen from near Tuscaloosa, AJa,, was sent to Chamberlin who 

 compared it with the holotype of B. initialis. He found the two to be 



