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Florida State Collection of Arthropods and the private collection of 
Richard L. Hoffman are indicated by the acronyms FSCA and RLH, 
respectively, and MCZ is the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Oconee Co.— Clemson vicinity, under dead pig, 2M, F, 18 July 1962, 
J. A. Payne (RLH). Abbeville Co.— 5.8 km w of Due West, along SC hwy. 
37 at Little River, M. F, 11 June 1978, R .M. Shelley and W. B. Jones 
(A2067). 10.8 km w of Abbeville, along SC hwy. 71 at Penny Creek, 2M, 
6 May 1977 (A 1546). 10 km s of Abbeville, Sumter National Forest, 
along road to Parsons Mountain campground, M, 3F, 9 August 1976 
(A 1390); Parsons Mountain campground, M, 3F, 10 August 1976 
(A1392); and near Parsons Mountain Lake, M. F, 6 May 1977 (A1548). 
4.8 km sw of Calhoun Falls, near Savannah River, M, 30 April 1960, L. 
Hubricht (RLH); 3.8 km sw of Calhoun Falls, along SC hwy. 72, 0.9 km 
n of Savannah River, 3M, F, 6 May 1977 (A 1543), and M, 19 July 1979, 
R. M. Shelley and R. K. Tardell (A2837). McCormick Co. — 6 km n of 
Mt. Carmel, along SC Hwy. 79 at Swaney Creek, 2M, F, 5 May 1977 
(A 1540). 15 km nw of McCormick, along SC hwy. 39 at Little River, M, 
5 May 1977 (A 1539). 10.6 km nw of McCormick, jet. SC hwys. 28 and 81, 
2M, 5 May 1977 (A 1538). 12 km wnw of McCormick, De La Howe 
Forest, Station 1 1, M, 10 July 1952, V. E. Shelford (MCZ); De La Howe 
Forest at end SC hwy. 25, 3.5 km s of jet. SC hwy. 81, 7M, 4F, 9 August 
1976 (A1388), and 7M, 2F, 5 May 1977 (A1536), TYPE LOCALITY. 8 
km w of McCormick, along US hwy. 378, M, 2 July 1958, collector un- 
known (FSCA). Baker Creek State Park, M. F, 8 August 1976 (A 1386). 
Hickory Knob State Park, 4M, 3F, 8 August 1976 (A 1387). 
Remarks. — Brevigonus shelfordi is the largest aphelorine xystodesmid 
species. Many individuals are comparable in size to Pachydesmus 
crassicutis (Wood) in the tribe Pachydesmini, which attains a length of 
over 60 mm and is generally considered the largest polydesmoid species 
in the United States. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. -\ am grateful to Herbert W. Levi, 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, for the privilege of examining the 
holotype of Cleptoria shelfordi. Howard V. Weems, Jr., kindly loaned 
material in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, and Richard L. 
Hoffman, Radford College, did likewise with material in his collection. 
Specimens from Baker Creek and Hickory Knob State Parks were col- 
lected with permission of the South Carolina Department of Parks, 
Recreation, and Tourism. Thanks are also extended to John E. Cooper, 
N.C. State Museum, for prepublication review and Renaldo G. Kuhler, 
N.C. State Museum, for preparing Figures 1 and 2. This study was sup- 
