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Everywhere in the Ohio valley this species seems to be quite rare and 

 exceedingly irregular in its occurrence. Mr. E. W. Nelson and Mr. Otto 

 Poling note it as much less common in Illinois than formerly. With 

 the exception of the winter of 1868-9 and the succeeding summer I do not 

 know of its having appeared in any considerable numbers in any of the 

 tier of states just north of the Ohio river. 



Notice of a terrapin to be restored to the fauna of Indiana. By 0. P. 

 Hay. 



ration of birds and one of insects. I >y T. B. Redding 



The South American cat fishes belonging to. Cornell University. I'.y 



E. M. Kindle. 



[Abstract. | 



Some years ago, the late Charles Frederick Hartt made a collection of 

 fishes in South America, which he gave to Cornell University. This col- 

 lection had never been studied until last spring, when it was sent to Dr. 

 Eigenmann. The cat fishes in it were turned over to me to identify. In 

 the identification of these I have used Dr. and Mrs. Eigenmann's " Re- 

 vision of the South American Nematognathi." I have also had the use 

 of Dr. Eigenmann's private library, which contains nearly all of the pub- 

 lished literature on South American fishes. In the identification of doubt- 

 ful species I have had the assistance of Dr. Eigenmann. 



The collection contains nineteen genera and twenty-seven species, dis- 

 tributed among the three families, Loricariidse, Siluridrc. and Callich- 

 thyida,and their sub-families. 



Two new species have been found in the collection. One of these be- 

 longs to the genus Ilassar. The name vrilderi is proposed for it in honor of 

 Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University. It is represented by four specimens 

 from the Tocontins river. The other new species belongs to the genus 

 Hemiancistrus, all of whose species are apparently rare. It has been named 

 longipinnis in reference to the long dorsal. 



