96 J. E. Cooper and A. L. Braswell 



(0.6 rd km) N jet SR 1437, ca. 0.2 air mi (0.3 air km) E Sunny Vale; 

 1 9 (NCSM C-2200), 26 Sep 1984. BROAD RIVER BASIN. Cleveland 

 Co. — (9) small stream (Buffalo Crk dr) in hardwoods, 0.8 rd mi 

 (1.3 rd km) S Lincoln Co line, 2.3 air mi (3.7 air km) NNE Belwood; 

 1 8 II, 3 j 8, 3 j 9 (NCSM C-2283), 22 Apr 1985. McDowell Co.— 

 (10) intermittent creek (trib Cane Crk) in hardwood ravine along 

 NC 226, 0.1 rd mi (0.2 rd km) WNW Rutherford Co line, 3.4 air mi 

 (5.4 air km) SE Dysartville; 4 8 II (NCSM C-987), 25 Jun 1977, 2 8 

 I, 5 8 II, 11 j 8, 9 9, 14 j 9 (NCSM C-1821), 1 9 with attached 

 young (NCSM C-1823), 1 8 II, 1 j8, 2 $ (NCSM C-1824), 26 Jul 

 1984. Rutherford Co.— (11) trib Broad R at NC 9, ca. 0.3 air mi 

 (0.5 air km) S town Lake Lure; 1 8 II (NCSM C-64), 6 Aug 1976; 

 (12) small stream in steep ravine at NC 9, 0.8 rd mi (1.3 rd km) W 

 cntr town Chimney Rock; 1 9 (NCSM C-959), 3 8 II, 1 9 (NCSM 

 C-960), 5 Jun 1977, with E. Messersmith. Polk Co.— (13) unnamed 

 trib Green R near Raccoon Mountain; 1 8 I (NCSM C-2012), summer 

 1974, G. G. Shaw. 



We conclude, based on the apparently broad temporal distribution 

 of ovigerous females and those with young, that C. asperimanus 

 either has an extended breeding season or has a long development 

 time for the ova and young. Hobbs (1981:190) reported an ovigerous 

 female taken in Rabun County, Georgia, in April 1977, and said that 

 "elsewhere" such females have been taken in April, June, and 

 December. The latter statement may have been based on Bouchard 

 (1972:47), who reported ovigerous females (presumably in Tennessee) 

 in "April to June and December." As indicated above, we collected 

 a female with attached young in Watauga County on 25 July 1984, 

 and another a day later in McDowell County. David G. Cooper collected 

 a female with three attached young in Jackson County on 10 August 

 1993. In addition, we found a number of individual females 

 closely associated with groups of tiny young in Macon County on 19 

 September 1984, and on this same date we found free-living young of 

 the same size. 



The Jackson County female collected by DGC on 10 August 

 1993 is the largest C. asperimanus we have seen, with a total carapace 

 length (TCL) of 42.0 mm and a postorbital carapace length (PCL) of 

 37.0 mm. Another very large specimen, a form I male measuring 38.0 

 mm TCL (32.5 mm PCL), was collected by DGC at the same site on 

 the same date. We collected a form I male in Macon County that 

 measured 36.0 mm TCL (31.5 mm PCL). The only other size data we 

 know of for this species are those of Hobbs (1981:190). His largest 



