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Synonymy: Dissatisfied with the full specific status originally 

 accorded the various new names proposed in this genus, subsequent 

 authors have at one time or another considered them all to be strictly 

 junior synonyms of georgiana, a feeling tentatively embodied in 

 Chamberlin and Hoffman's "Checklist of the millipeds of North 

 America." With diagnostic characters in Cherokia now being 

 drawn from nonsexual modifications, a reappraisal of the names is 

 very much in order. 



Fontaria tallulah was based by Bollman upon two female speci- 

 mens collected by Underwood at Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, 

 Georgia. The name thereupon fell into complete obscurity and 

 was not investigated until 1949, when I had the opportunity to 

 search for topotypes. Despite unfavorable climatic conditions, I 

 was able to obtain in the penultimate instar two female millipeds 

 which matched Bollman's description closely. These specimens 

 were later found, on direct comparison, to be conspecific with the 

 the types of tallulah. The name is based upon a population of 

 Cherokia which cannot be separated from typical georgiana, Bollman 

 apparently not having realized that his types were immature and 

 that the final moult appreciably modifies the color pattern. My 



Figure 5. — Cyphopods of subspecies of Cherokia georgiana: a, C. g. georgiana, Stephens 

 County, Georgia, lateral aspect of right cyphopod; b, C. g. ducilla, Sevier County. 

 Tennessee, same aspect; c, d, C. g. latassa, Jackson County, Alabama, lateral and 

 mesial aspects of right and left cyphopods, respectively. Abbreviations: IV, inner 

 valve; OV, outer valve; and Op, operculum. 



