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Gonopod aperture very wide, almost diamond-shaped prozonite; 

 of 7th segment reduced to a mere thin transverse vestige in front of the 

 aperture. 



Cyphopods (fig. 5) very strongly compressed, the inner valve much 

 smaller than the outer; receptacle completely lost, a detail which 

 separates Cherokia from all other xystodesmid genera. Epigynal re- 

 gion not differentiated or modified. 



Range: Southeastern United States, in the Piedmont, southern 

 section of the Blue Ridge Province, and the Cumberland Plateau. 

 All of western North Carolina south of the French Broad River, 

 extreme western South Carolina, the northern half of Georgia and 

 Alabama, most of the Cumberland Plateau as well as the Valley and 

 Ridge Province south of the French Broad River in Tennessee, and 

 extreme southeastern Kentucky (Harlan, Bell, and Laurel Counties). 



Species: One, Cherokia georgiana (Bollman), with three subspecies, 

 separable by the contrasts stipulated in the key given below. 



Key to Subspecies of Clierokia georgiana 



1. Scapulorae marginal, anterior surface of paranota concealed in dorsal aspect 



(fig. 3, a); central Alabama north through the Cumberland Plateau to 



southeastern Kentucky georgiana latassa, new subspecies 



Scapulorae submarginal, in dorsal aspect anterior face of the paranota is ex- 

 posed (fig. 3,6); distribution not as outlined above 2 



2. Width of body 26 to 28 percent of the length; tibiotarsal marginal spur of 



male gonopods (fig. 4,6, TTS) normally present; color of legs and under- 

 sides whitish to yellowish georgiana georgiana (Bollman) 



Width of body 19 to 24 percent of the length; tibiotarsal marginal spur of 

 gonopods absent from virtually all specimens; color of pleurites and anal 

 valves brown to nearly black; Great Smoky and Unaka Mountains, inter- 

 grading widely with the preceding in western North Carolina. 



georgiana ducilla (Chamberlin) 



Cherokia georgiana georgiana (Bollman) 



Figures 3,d; 4,e; 5,a; G; 7 



Fontaria georgiana Bollman, 1889, p. 344. 



Fontaria tallulah Bollman, 1889, p. 344. Type locality: Tallulah Falls, Haber- 

 sham County, Georgia; type specimens, USNM 2302, two females. 



Mimuloria furcifer Chamberlin, 1940, fig. 3, p. 282. Type locality: Bent Creek 

 Experimental Forest, Buncombe County, North Carolina; type specimen, 

 Chamberlin collection, male. 



Mimuloria georgiana Loomis, 1943, p. 402. — Chamberlin, 1946, p. 151. — Loomis 

 and Hoffman, 1948, p. 52 (in part). 



Dynoria parvior Chamberlin, 1947, fig. 4, p. 10. Type locality: Neel Gap, Union 

 County, Georgia; type specimen, Chamberlin collection, male. 



Cherokia georgiana Chamberlin, 1949, fig. 1, p. 3. — Hoffman, 1950, figs. 9-12, p. 

 23.— Chamberlin and Hoffman, 1958, p. 26. 



