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Type Locality: Auburn, Lee County, Alabama. 

 Range: Known only from the type locality. 



Genus SONOROMERIS Silvestri 



Sonoromeris Silvestri, 1929, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, vol. 22, p. 199.— 



Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, No. 7, p. 373. 

 Generotype: Sonoromeris prima Silvestri, by original designation. 

 Range : Central California. 

 Species: One. 



Sonoromeris prima (Silvestri) 



Apiomeris (Sonoromeris) prima Silvestri, 1929, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, 



vol. 22, pp. 198-203, figs. 

 Type Specimen: Probably in Silvestri's collection. 

 Type Locality : Mill Valley, near San Francisco, California. 

 Range: Known only from type locality. 



Genus TRICHOMERIS Loomis 



Trichomeris Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, No. 7, p. 374 

 Generotype: Trichomeris sinuata Loomis, by original designation. 

 Range: Northern Alabama. 

 Species: One. 



Trichomeris sinuata Loomis 



Trichomeris sinuata Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, No. 



7, p. 374, figs. la-f. 

 Type: Mus. Comp. Zool. 



Type Locality: Monte Sano State Park, 6 miles southeast of Huntsville, 

 Madison County, Alabama. 



Range: Known only from type locality. 



Superorder HELMINTHOMORPHA 



Helminthomorpha Pocock, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 20, 

 p. 294.— Bollman, 1893, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 46, p. 155.— Silvestri, 

 1897, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 18, p. 646. 



Eugnatha Attems, 1899, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien, vol. 67, p. 227. 



KEY TO THE ORDERS OF HELMINTHOMORPHA 



1. Body composed of 18 to 22 segments; stemites, pleurites, and tergites completely 

 fused without traces of sutures; tergites usually produced laterally into paranota; 

 eyes always absent; second legs of 7th segment of male not modified as gonopods. 



POLYDESMIDA (p. 14) 



Body composed of 30 or more (rarely 20, 26, or 28) segments; the body rings less 

 complete, the stemites being either free or set off by distinct sutures; eyes usually 

 present (secondarily lost in cave forms) 2 



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