1911] Lithobiomor pha of Southeastern States 43 



Localities. — Greenville, S. C. ; Asheville and Hot Springs, 

 N. C. ; Lynchburg and Balcony Falls, Va.; White Sulphur, W. 

 Va. ; Fulton and Lexington, Ky. 



The range of this species, so abundant in the north, is 

 carried southward into our present territory by the mountain 

 ranges. It has not previously been reported from the Caro- 

 linas or other points so far south in this district. 



26. Lithobius celer Bollman. 



1888. Lithobius celer, Bollman, Entom. Amer., IV, p. ". 

 1909. nee. Lithobius celer, Chamberlin, Ann. Ent. Soc. America, 

 p. 190. 



Locality. — Fulton, Ky. 



27. Lithobius oedipes Bollman. 



1888. Lithobius o lipes, Bollman, Entom. Amer., IV, p. 8. 

 Locality. — Mississippi. 



28. Lithobius manegitus sp. nov. 



Dorsum dark brown; head darker, nearly mahogany, the antennae 

 similar proximally but becoming paler or rufous distad legs brown above, 

 mostly paler vcntrally, and the posterior pairs mostly pale distad. 



Antennae moderate; composed of twenty articles which decrease 

 in length from the second distad to the penultimate. 



Ocelli in a patch situated apparently closer than usual to the base 

 of antenna; in number about nine, arranged in three series; thus 1+3, 

 3, 2. 



Prosternal teeth 2 + 2; a characteristic stout spine uniformly present 

 on each side ectad of the outer tooth. 



Angles of the ninth, eleventh and thirteenth dorsal plates produced. 



Coxal pores round, in number 5, 5, o, 4. 



Last two pairs of coxae armed laterally; only the ultimate coxae 

 armed dorsally. 



Spines of the first legs 1, 2, 1-2, 2, 1; of the penult 1, 3, 3, 2, with 

 two claws; of the anal 1, 3, 3. 1, provided also with two claws. 



In the male the anal legs are crassate and the tibia or fifth joint is 

 conspicuously furrowed lengthwise dorsally toward the exterior side, 

 the furrow being fringed on each side by a dense growth of hair, the 

 hair longest at posterior end (See PL 4, fig. 7). The penult legs 

 more crassate than the anal, the fourth and fifth joints most enlarged; 

 the fifth joint or tibia furrowed from end to end along the meso-ventral 

 surface and excavated on this surface at the distal end where there is a 

 process bearing a conspicuous brush of hairs which projects mesad 

 (See PI. 4, figs. 4, o and (5.) 



The gonopods of female with the claw entire; basal spines 2 + 2,. 

 conical, the inner the smaller. 



Length 15-17 mm. 



