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paper of 1950 placed tallulah into a genus for the first time since the 

 partition of the old name Fontaria, and correctly regarded it a junior 

 synonym of georgiana, which has a one page priority in Bollman's 

 paper. 



Exactly 50 years after the proposal of the name georgiana, Chamber- 

 lin (1939) described a new xystodesmid under the name Mimuloria 

 ducilla, the types coming from Soco Gap, North Carolina. The 

 diagnosis was very brief, but included an accurate illustration of the 

 gonopod. Loomis (1943) subsequently considered ducilla to be a 

 synonym of georgiana, in which he was followed by my later discussion 

 of the matter, largely because of the gonopod structure. I have now 

 studied two series of topotypes of ducilla, both obtained personally, 

 and find that the population at Soco Gap is representative of the 

 narrow-bodied montane subspecies of georgiana, to which the name 

 ducilla must now be applied. 



Mimuloria Jurcifer was described also by Chamberlin, on the basis 

 of four specimens collected by A. S. Pearse in the Pisgah National 

 Forest near Asheville, North Carolina. The form was contrasted 

 only with ducilla, with differences in size, color, and gonopod minutae 

 being noted. These are all differences which are here considered to 

 distinguish ducilla, but it was apparently not realized by Chamberlin 

 that furcijer might be the same as georgiana. After several unsuc- 

 cessful visits to the type locality, I was finally rewarded in July 1958 

 by the collection of several immature specimens, which, when reared 

 to maturity, turned out to be representative of the intermediate 

 population between ducilla and georgiana, and closer to the latter in 

 most respects. These topotypes agree closely with other specimens 

 from the same general region in having the median row of spots 

 conspicuously reduced (see p. 234). 



Finally, once again Chamberlin (1947) proposed a new name for 

 a species of Cherokia, but unfortunately placed it in the genus Dynoria, 

 which probably belongs in a different subfamily. The types of 

 Dynoria parvior came from Neel Gap, in the Blue Ridge country of 

 north Georgia, and were very briefly described with respect to color, 

 size, and gonopod structure. The contrasts with Dynoria icana are, 

 of course, meaningless. The size range is given as 18-19 mm. in 

 length, with a width of 7 mm. Correction of the length dimension 

 to 28-29 mm. would yield a normal w/l ratio. 



I have not seen material from the type locality, but do have a fair 

 series taken less than 20 miles away in the same mountain range. 

 These specimens belong to the widespread trimaculate phase of the 

 intergrade population, to which the name parvior (now no longer 

 appropriate) is allocated as a strict junior synonym of the nominate 

 subspecies of georgiana. This synonomy is not new; it was first 



