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setae, other joints with setae becoming increasingly larger and denser 

 distally, the four terminal joints each with a distal whorl of large 

 robust setae, tarsal joint with most vestiture on its dorsal (outer) 

 surface. Tarsal claw long and evenly curved except on leg pairs 

 3-15 of males, where they are bisinuate and compressed, distinctly 

 ellipsoidal in cross-section, the upper edge thin and carinate. 



Prozonite of 7th segment reduced to a mere thin vestige mid- 

 ventrally in front of gonopod aperture. The latter broadly transverse, 

 up to 2.4 mm wide, its caudolateral edges elevated and flared laterad, 



Figure 4. — Gonopod structure in Cherokia georgiana latassa (a-d), C. g. georgiana (e), and 

 C. g. ducilla (f): a, ventral aspect of gonopods in situ; b, mesial aspect of left gonopod; 

 c, sublateral aspect of right gonopod; d, cephalic aspect of gonopod sternite, its apo- 

 demes, and coxa of right side; e, ventral aspect of tibiotarsal region; /, same, slightly 

 enlarged, of another subspecies. Abbreviations: Cg, cingulum; Cx, coxa; Pf, prefemur; 

 Pfp, prefemoral process; Sim, solenomerite; St, sternite; Sta, sternal apodeme; Ta, 

 tarsus; and Ti, tibia. 



