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Marianne E. Filka and Rowland M. Shelley 
along 1-85, jet. NC Hwy. 161, 3 juvs., 18 October 1976, M. Filka and G. 
Wicker (NCSM A2197). 
Julidae 
Brachyiulus lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898 
Brachyiulus lusitanus is easily identified by its characteristic dorsal 
color pattern — two pale longitudinal stripes surrounding a narrow black 
mid-dorsal line. Introduced from Europe, B. lusitanus has been reported 
from developed areas of North America as far south as the “Triangle” 
(Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) region of North Carolina, where it was 
erroneously reported as B. pusillus (Leach) by Shelley (1978). However, 
three females were encountered during this study, all in April, under 
debris at a public campsite. The Kings Mountain region thus becomes 
the southernmost known locality for B. lusitanus in the New World. 
Locality. Cleveland Co . — 1.9 km SE Kings Mountain (town), jet. 
1-85 and NC Hwy. 161, 3 9 , 10 April 1977. M. Filka. 
Parajulidae 
Ptyoiulus ectenes (Bollman, 1888) 
Fig. 5 
Juvenile and female Ptyoiulus are unidentifiable to species. Those 
found associated with males of a single species (all only in October) were 
adjudged to be that species and are so shown in Table 3. Those collected 
without associated males (all only in July) are tabulated by genus in 
Table 3. No juveniles or females were found with males of both species at 
a single collecting site. These identification problems may have influ- 
enced the apparent seasonal distribution patterns of both species of 
Ptyoiulus in the region, although examination of Table 3 reveals similar 
July and October patterns for the two. Adults of P. ectenes were most 
numerous in October but also occurred in April; immatures were found 
only in July and October. These data suggest that P. ectenes reproduces 
during fall and spring, and juveniles mature the following summer and 
fall. All specimens were collected from deciduous litter. Gonopods of the 
31 males were examined but no variation was apparent. 
This species was reported from the fall zone region as Ptyoiulus sp. 
by Shelley (1978) who declined to assign a specific name in deference to 
studies being conducted by the late Dr. Nell B. Causey. The oldest 
available specific name is in doubt, but that of Bollman is used tentatively 
here since it is one of the earliest names and the first applied to specimens 
from North Carolina. However, there is some question as to whether 
ectenes is referable to Ptyoiulus, since Bollman (1887) remarked that the 
