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KEY TO ORDERS OF PENTAZONIA 



1. Body composed of 14 to 16 segments, covered with 11 to 13 tergites; body contractile 



into a ball Clomerida (p. 12) 



Body composed of 22 segments, more elongate and not contractile into a ball 



Glomeridesmida ' 



Order GLOMERIDA 



Glomeridia Brandt, 1833, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 6, p. 194. — Attems, 



1914, Arch. Naturg., Abt. A., vol. 80, p. 135. 

 Glomeridae Leach, 1815, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, p. 376. — Latzel, 1884, 



Myr. Ost.-Ung. Monarch., vol. 2, p. 81.— Bolhnan, 1893, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 46, p. 161. 

 Oniscomorpha Pocock, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 20, p. 291. 

 Glomeroidea Cook, 1895, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 9, p. 2. 

 Plesiocerata Verhoeff, 1910, Die Diplopoden Deutschlands, p. 21. 



Family GLOMERIDAE Leach 



Glomeridae Leach, 1815, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, p. 376. — Latzel, 1884, 

 Myr. Ost.-Ung. Monarch., vol. 2, p. 81.— Cook, 1895, Ann. New 

 York Acad. Sci., vol. 9, p. 2. 



Glomerididae Cook, 1896, Brandtia, No. 10, p. 45. 



Genus ONOMERIS Cook 



Onomeris Cook, 1896, Brandtia, No. 10, p. 43. — ^Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. ZooL, vol. 92, No. 7, p. 373. 

 Generotype: Onomeris underwoodi Cook, by original designation. 

 Range: Central Alabama and the mountains of western North Carolina 

 and north Georgia. 

 Species: Two. 



Onomeris australora Hoffman 



Onomeris australora Hoffman, 1950, Joum. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, 

 vol. 66, p. 13, figs. 1, 2. 



Type: U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 1872). 



Type Locality : Reed Creek Falls on Glade Mountain, near Satolah, Rabun 

 County, Georgia. 



Range : Southern Blue Ridge above 3,000 feet in Rabun County, Georgia, 

 and Macon County, North Carolina. 



Onomeris underwoodi Cook 



Onomeris underwoodi Cook, 1896, Brandtia, No. 10, p. 43. 

 Type:U. S.Nat. Mus. 



*Not represented in America north of Mexico; species occur in Central America 

 and the Greater Antilles. 



