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quite unlike snvy with which I jini familiar. It swani awa}' with such 

 rapiditj^ when I attempted to secure it that it soon disappeared in the 

 mudd}" water. 



At Rossville, Georgia, I was able to penetrate a few feet into a small 

 cave at the "John Ross Spring." At Shellmound 1 paid two visits to 

 what is known as the Wine-house Cave, a treacherous hole of 85 feet 

 almost perpendicular depth, filled with loose rock masses of all sizes. 

 The passage at the bottom of the cave is very short, but contains sev- 

 eral pools of water which will probably be found to contain al>out the 

 same fauna as the stream in Nickajack Cave. 



During the interval between the two visits some collecting was done 

 at Rossville, Georgia, and in the inunediate vicinit}" of Chattanooga. 

 The results of that work are included in this report. 



II.— REMARKS ON ANIMALS, OTHER THAN CRUSTACEA. 



In addition to the light-colored salamander mentioned a])()ve I 

 observed several other animals, which may lie referred to here, as they 

 will not find a proper place in the body of the paper. 



In the Wine House Cave I saw a small white fish which, from its 

 actions, I took to be a blind species, but it was quite unlike AinhJij- 

 ojjsis and may belong to some unknown spfecies. Here also I secured 

 one specimen of the cave salamander, Spelerpes inacuUcauda. 



In Nickajack Cave there were hundreds of bats, and in their dung, 

 which covei'ed the floor and rocks in some places to a depth of several 

 inches, I found numerous small Lepidopterous insects in appearance 

 \QYy like the ordinary clothes moth. Cave crickets {Ilademmtis sah- 

 terivMieus Scudder) were common, but nowhere abundant. In the 

 stream I noticed a few small minnows and many blobs ( 6'o?'i5?^6' sp.). 

 Here I also found a good-sized water snake {N^at7'ix sp.) swimming 

 about in a most confused manner. A day or two later I found a but- 

 terfly Neonymplia (jemma perched upon the wall of a narrow and totally 

 dark side passage. The snake and butterfly were undoubtedly acci- 

 dental visitors to the cave. The others, with perhaps the exception 

 of the blobs and minnows, were permanent inhabitants. 



III.— CRUSTACEA. 

 Suborder ISOPODA. 



Family ASELLID.E. 



Genera MANCASELLUS Hargerand Cv^CIDOTEA Packard. 



C^CIDOTEA Packard. 



While in this paper and a preceding one^ 1 have used the name 

 CoBcidotea for the eyeless subterranean Asellida?, 1 have done so 



' Observations on the Crustacean fauna of the region about Manniioth Cave, Ken- 

 tucky. This volume, p. 223. 



