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Thomas C. Barr, Jr. 
Pseudanophthalmus georgiae^ new species 
Figs. 39, 47 
Etymology. — Geographic name. 
Diagnosis. — Resembles P. alabamae in the short, subparallel apical 
groove and slender, attenuate, deflexed aedeagal apex; differs in the more 
angular humeri and more slender, less arcuate aedeagus with finely 
knobbed apex. 
Description. — Length 4. 1-4.8, mean 4.5 ± SD 0.1 mm (N = 13). Form 
slender and moderately elongate, subconvex, pubescent, rufotestaceous; 
elytral microsculpture transverse, not forming meshes. Head a little 
longer than wide; labrum with broad, prominent, median lobe; mandibles 
unusually long and slender, terebral teeth large and very conspicuous; 
last segment of maxillary palp one-third longer than penultimate seg- 
ment; antenna two-thirds body length. Pronotum transverse, strongly 
cordiform, 0.85-0.89 as long as wide, convex, disc glabrous (very sparse 
micropubescence only), a few individuals with 1-3 discal setae; width at 
base slightly greater or equal to width at apex and about 0.8 greatest 
width, which occurs in apical fourth behind level of anterior marginal 
setae; anterior angles moderate, sides arcuate, very shallowly (or not) 
sinuate at basal fifth, hind angles sharp, usually a little less than right, 
secondary basal angles small but conspicuous. Elytra elongate-oval, 1.6 
times longer than wide, prehumeral borders slightly oblique, humeri 
prominent and angular, apexes attenuate, disc moderately convex with 
slight deplanation around scutellum; striae fairly deep, intervals convex, 
inner 3 striae deeper but striae 4-7 still discernible; apical groove subpar- 
allel to suture, hardly bisinuate at all, joining or directed toward juncture 
of 4th and 5th striae at level of anterior apical puncture without anterior 
crosier. Aedeagus 0.60-0.65 mm long, less arcuate than that of P. alaba- 
mae, angle between basal bulb and median lobe greater, apex more 
slender, slightly knobbed or finely truncate and deflexed; 5-6 setae at 
apexes of paramers. 
Type series. — Holotype male (American Museum of Natural His- 
tory), 1 male and 8 female paratypes, Blowing Spring Cave, 4 km NE 
Cloudland and 1.6 km NW Chelsea at the east base of Lookout Moun- 
tain, Chattooga Co., Georgia (Dougherty Gap IVi Quadrangle), 21 June 
1967, S. B. Peek and A. Fiske. 
Measurements (mm). — Holotype, total length 4.59, head 0.83 long X 
0.77 wide, pronotum 0.80 long X 0.92 wide, elytra 2.45 long X 1.53 wide, 
antenna 3.00, aedeagus 0.63. 
Discussion. — This species obviously shares a relatively recent common 
ancestry with P. alabamae, which occurs in several caves on the east side 
of the Wills anticline in Little Wills Valley, Alabama. The subparallel 
