40 A REVISION OF THE ASTACID^. 



15. Cambarus pellucidus. 



Alfactu jiflliifiiJi's, TELLKAMPF, Arch. Anat., Physiol. u. wissensch. Mecl, 1844, p. 383. 



.lxlii<-H8 (Cambarvs) pellucichis, ERICHSOX, Arch. Naturgesch., XII. Jalirg., I. 95, 1846. 



Attacu* pellacidui, (.IIIIBES, Proc. Amcr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 3d Meeting, p. 195, 1S50. (No description.) 



Cambarus pellucidtes, GIRARD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., VI. 87, 1852. (No description.) 



Cambarus fettucidus, UAGEX, III. Cat. Mus. Conip. Zoo]., No. III. p. 55, PI. I. figs. 68-71, PI. III. fig. 143, 



PI. VI., 1870. Amer. Naturalist, VI. -494, 1872. 

 Camliui- u * /W///,W/, PACKARD, Amcr. Naturalist, V. 750, fig. 131 (after Hageu), 1871. Fifth Ann. Rep. 



Trustees Peabotly Acad. Sci. for the Year 1872, p. 94, 1873. 

 Orconectes pellucidus, COPE, Amer. Naturalist, VI. 410, 419, 1872. Third and Fourth Aim. Rep. Geolog. 



Surv. ludiana, pp. 162, 173, 1872. 

 Orconectt'x incnnis, COPE, Amer. Naturalist, VI. 410, 419, 1872. Third and Fourth Ann. Rep. Geolog. Surv 



Indiana, pp. 102, 173, 1872. 

 Cambarus pell/u-ii/iis, SMITH, Rep. U. S. Comni. Fish aiid Fisheries for 1872 and 1873, p. 639, 1S74. (No 



description.) 



Cambarm pellaeidus, PUTNAM, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII. 222, XVIII. 16, 1875. (Habits.) 

 jiellttciilits, FAXON, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., XX. 139, 1884. 



Knoivn Localities. Kentucky : Mammoth Cave and other caves in Ecl- 

 monson Co. Indiana : Wyandotte Cave, Crawford Co. ; cave in Bradford, 

 Harrison Co. 



The earliest notice of the blind crayfish of the Mammoth Cave occurs 

 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 Vol. I. p. 175. In the record of the meeting of the Academy on May 24, 

 1842, the donation of a specimen is thus acknowledged: "A white eyeless 

 crayfish (Antaeus Bartonil) .... from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, about 

 2.L miles from the entrance. Presented by W. T. Craige, M. D." 



From a " Notice of the Blind Fish, Crayfish, and Insects from the Main- 

 moth Cave, Kentucky," communicated by William Thompson to the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History (Vol. XIII. p. 11.1, February, 1844), I quote 

 the following : 



" At a meeting of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 

 .Inn. 17, 1844, Mr. Thompson, the President, called attention to specimens 

 <>!' the Blind Fish, Crayfish, and Locusts from the great Mammoth Cave in 

 Kentucky, procured in the month of May last, specially for the Society, by 

 the kind addition of our townsman, Gordon A. Thomson, Esq., on his visit 

 to the cave. They are perhaps the first examples of their respective species- 

 brought thence to Europe. 



'The cave itself is popularly known from having been described in 

 'Chambers'* Edinburgh Journal 'for 1838, Vol. VI. p. 234 ; and more recently, 

 at least in this town, from a letter by the Rev. Wm. Murphy, St. Mary's 



