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B. stricta, and the homogeneity noted previously by Hoffman (1965) also 
applies to Piedmont populations. The bifurcate prefemoral process is 
new, however, and its occurrence solely in the Kings Mountain popula- 
tion may represent a peripheral population effect. This occurs in too 
small a sample of the Kings Mountain population, however, to justify 
taxonomic recognition. The known range of B. stricta is expanded con- 
siderably to include Gaston and Cleveland counties. North Carolina, and 
York (Kings Mountain State Park) and Spartanburg (Croft State Park) 
counties. South Carolina. 
Croatania catawba Shelley, 1977 
Fig. 54 
Croatania catawba Shelley, 1977:306, Figs. 1-2, 7, 11-12, 16. 
Croatania catawba was one of the few millipeds encountered pri- 
marily in July; only three adults were found in April and October. The 
preference of species of Croatania for hot, dry conditions was discussed 
by Shelley (1977), who also presented a description of the habitat at the 
type locality in Cleveland County. Individuals collected during the 
present study, however, were taken from cool, moist seepage areas under 
deciduous leaf piles and from under large, decaying deciduous logs. As 
reported by Shelley (1977), adults were typically black with lemon yellow 
paranota and a variable yellow stripe along the anterior edge of the 
collum. One female displayed an orange tinted collum stripe similar to 
that reported by Shelley for two Union County, South Carolina 
specimens. No significant gonopodal variation was discerned. 
Shelley (1977) suggested that the distribution of C. catawba in North 
Carolina might be associated with the Kings Mountain range, which ex- 
tends northeastward through a series of hills and ridges to Anderson 
Mountain in Catawba County. Except for one Lincoln County specimen 
taken in 1952, however, the milliped has not been collected in North 
Carolina outside the contiguous ridge portion of the range in Cleveland 
and Gaston counties. Croatania catawba is thus essentially restricted to 
this small area in North Carolina, and therefore is considered to be a 
species of special concern in the state, as defined by Cooper et al. (1977). 
Localities. Cleveland Co . — 9.3 km S Kings Mountain (town), along 
CR 2245, 0.2 km N jet. CR 2288, 9 cJ, 5 9, 16 September 1975, R.M. 
Shelley and J.C. Clamp (NCSM A450) TYPE LOCALITY; 1.9 km SW 
Kings Mountain (town), along 1-85, jet. NC Hwy. 161,9 , 10 April 1977, 
M. Filka (NCSM A1040), d^, 9, 7 July 1976, M. Filka and W.\Y. Thom- 
son (NCSM A1048), and 5 o’, 9 , 6 juvs., 10 July 1976, M. Filka and 
W.W. Thomson (NCSM A 1049). Gaston Co. — 7.7 km SW Gastonia, 
along CR 1 131, 0.2 km NW jet. CR 1133, 9 , 9 July 1976, M. Filka and 
W.W. Thomson (NCSM A 1340); and 7.2 km S Bessemer City, along CR 
1 125, jet. CR 1 106, 9, 16 October 1976, M. Filka and G. Wicker (NCSM 
A1418). 
