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surface of bead pale. The fins all have a narrow dark margin. 

 The specimen described (no. 18015 U. S. National Museum) is 

 ih inches long. 



This species, like the others of its genus, is called stone cat, 

 tind it is very common in the vSusquebanna, where it is highly 

 prized as a live bait for black bass fishing. The species occurs 

 also in the Delaware, but for some reason or other is not so 

 attractive to the black bass as the Susquehanna river race. It 

 grows to the length of 10 inches. 



The species ranges from Xew York to South Carolina, east 

 of the Alleghenies. 



The dorsal and caudal fins sometimes have a well defined 

 black margin, from which originated the later name, N o t u r u s 

 m a r g i n a t u s . This is the Pimelodus livree of 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes and the P. 1 e m n i s c a t u s of Le 

 Sueur. Cuvier and Valenciennes make the following conclud- 

 ing remarks about the species: ''The species is j)robably vivi- 

 parous, for the eggs are very large, and contain a well developed 

 embryo. The ovary contains many eggs of which the diameter- 

 exceeds 2 lines, and moreover they are taken from a small 

 animal, for our example is 3 inches long." 



54 Schilbeodes miurus (Jordan) 



Tariegatcd Stone Cat 



Noturus miurus Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 371^ 1877, Bull. 10, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 100. figs. 60, 61, 1S77; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 90, 1SS3. 

 Scliilicodes viiurus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 14S, 



1896, pi. XXIX. fig. 68, 1900. 



Body rather stout, subterete, its greatest depth contained 

 from four and one half to five and one half times in total length 

 without ciiudjil; least depth of caudal j)eduucle three fifths (»f 

 greatest depth of body. Head one fourth of total length with- 

 out caudal; eye one fifth the length of head, snout about two 

 sevenths; maxillary barbels reach beyond end of head; man- 

 dibulary barbel three fifths as long as the head; lower jaw 

 included. Dorsal origin over middle of pectoral, slightly nearer 

 to anal than to tip of snout, the dorsal base one half as long as 



