MILLIPED GENUS CHEROKIA — HOFFMAN 239 



of Georgia carries the name of the nominate subspecies. That which 

 occurs in the Great Smokies may be recognized as the third subspecies. 

 A name is already available for this form, ducilla Chamberlin, based on 

 specimens from Soco Gap, North Carolina. 



Genus Cherokia Chamberlin 



Cherokia Chamberlin, 1949, p. 3. — Hoffman, 1950, p. 23. — Chamberlin and Hoff- 

 man, 1958, p. 26. 



Type species: Fontaria georgiana Bollman 1889, by original 

 designation. 



Diagnosis: A genus of moderate-size, compact xystodesinids of 

 variable form and appearance, with the following characters in 

 common: 



Head smooth and polished, vertigial groove evident but not termi- 

 nating in a shallow depression. Facial setae as follows: four supra- 

 antennal, two interantennal, two subantennae, and two frontal setae. 

 Genae almost flat, without median depressions, their ends not surpass- 

 ing margin of cranium. Antennae long and slender, articles 2-6 

 subequal in size and shape, with four sensory cones. 



Body shape variable, either broad (the width up to 28 percent of 

 length) or very narrow (as little as 19 percent of length), depending 

 upon width of paranota. The latter slightly interrupting slope of 

 dorsum, their dorsal surface coriaceous, the lateral edges smooth and 

 rounded, pores opening dorsally in elongate pj^riform peritremata, 

 the pore formula normal. 



Sterna smooth and glabrous, forming a gradually inclined podoster- 

 num between the legs, this area divided by a transverse groove, and 

 produced into small conicles at the base of each leg; pleural regions 

 smooth and unmodified. Sterna of 4th and 5th segments of males 

 with low rounded knobs between the legs. 



Coxae of male gonopods moderate size, cylindrical, attached to a 

 wealdy sclerotized but distinct sternite; lacking apical apophyses or 

 other modifications, socket of solenite well removed from the distal 

 margin. Telopodite attached to coxite at a right angle, extending 

 cephalad between legs of 6th segment, the two gonopods parallel with 

 the distal ends usually in contact; prefemora elongate, tapering distad, 

 densely setose mesiall}', with a short simple acicular prefemoral proc- 

 ess. Remainder of telopodite set off from prefemur by a conspicuous, 

 flexible, cingulum but continuing in the same axis, distally with a 

 short falcate process (here provisionally regarded as tibia) projecting 

 mesiad from the mesial margin and with two terminal tarsal processes, 

 a slender parasolenomerite from the upper margin, and a short recurved 

 solenomerite from the lower. 



