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Netuma barbus (Lac6pede). 



Two from Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



CALLOPHYSIN.^. 



Callophysus macropterus (Lichtenstein). 



Two from Peru, one having been secured between the mouth of 

 the Rio Negro and Peru. 



ICTALURIN.E. 



Ictalurus furcatus (Le Sueur). 



Pimelodus affinis Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 26. 

 Rio Grande. 



No. 8,460, A. N. S. P., cotype of P. affinis Baird and Girard. 



Brownsville, Texas. J. H. Clark. Smithsonian Institution (No. 



838). 



Ictalurus punotatus (Rafinesque). 



Fimdodus notalus Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 509. Fort 



Riley, Kansas. 

 Pimelodus hammondi Abbott, I.e. Fort Riley. 



No. 8,449, A. N. S. P., type of P. notalus Abbott. Fort Riley, 

 Kansas. Dr. W. A. Hammond. 



Nos. 22,065 and 66, A. N. S. P., cotypes of P. hammondi Abbott. 

 Same data. 



Also many examples from Lake Erie, Battle Creek of the upper 

 Missouri, Pennsylvania (Erie, Kiskiminitas and Beaver Rivers), 

 Virginia (Sinking Creek), Indiana (Wabash River), Minnesota 

 (Mankato), Kansas (Leavenworth), Iowa (Hornick and Ottumwa), 

 Missouri (Brownsville and St. Louis), Arkansas (Judsonia and 

 Greenway), Texas (Little Wichita River, Fort Worth and Del Rio). 



Ictalurus anguilla Evermann and Kendall. 



Two from the Creek Country (Dr. S. W. W^oodhouse). These 

 were obtained many years before the species was described. 



Ameiurus catus (Linnseus). 



Amiurus lophius Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., XI, 1870, p. 487. 



Washington, D. C. 

 Amiurus niveiventris Cope, I.e., p. 488. Neuse River, North Carohna. 



Nos. 8,461 and 62, A. N. S. P., cotypes of ^. lophius Cope. Poto- 

 mac River. E. D. Cope. 



Nos. 8,466 and 67, A. N. S. P., cotypes of .4. niveiventris Cope. 

 Neuse River, Noi Carolina. E. D. Cope. 



Also a large series from New Jersey (Duck and Newbold's Islands), 

 Pennsylvania (Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Chester County, Sus- 



