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Color very dark. The type-specimen is quite black, both body and 

 fins ; the belly is pale, but the lower barbels as well as the ujiper ones 

 are black. 



The type was collected in the St. John's River, Florida, by Mr. G. 

 Brown Goode. It is a little more than a foot long. 



This species is intermediate between A. lupus and A. lividus, having 

 the narrowed head, high dorsal, and small mouth of the first, with 

 the short, truncate candal fin of the second. 



12. AMIUEUS NATALIS, {Le Sueur) Gill. 



Catfish— Yellow Cat. 



a. Subspecies Natalis. 



(Figs. 21 and 22.) 



Pimelodus natalis, Le Sueur (1819), M.6m. du Mus6um, v, 154— Stoker (1846), Synopsis, 



405. 

 Amiurus natalis. Gill (1862), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 44— Gt^NTHER (1864), Cat. 



Fishes Brit. Mus. v, 101. 

 Pimelodus puma, Girard (1859), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 160. 



HaMtat. — Great Lakes to Korth Carolina and south. 

 h. Subspecies Lividus, Baf. 



(Figs. 23 and 24.) 



Silurus lividus, Rafinesque (1820), Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. Arts, London, 48 (et var. 

 fuscatus). 

 Pimelodus lividus, Rafinesque (1820), Ich. Ohiensis, 65. 



Amiurus lividus, Jordan (1876), Man. Vert. 302. — Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check 

 List, 159. 

 Pimelodus felinus, Girard (1858), U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. x, 209. 



Amiurus felinus, Gill (1862), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 44.— Cope (1870), Proc. 

 Am. Philos. Soc. 485. — Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check List, 159. 

 Pimelodus catus, Grd. (1859), Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. 160 (not of De Kay and 

 most authors). 

 Amiurus catus, Cope (1870), Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 484.— Jordan & Copeland, 

 Check List, 159. 

 Pimelodus cupreoides, Girard (1859), Proc. 'Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 159. 

 Amiurus cupreoides, Gill (1862), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 44. 



Habitat — Ohio Valley to Arkansas. North Carolina and south. 

 c. Subspecies Ccenosus, {Richardson) Gill. 



(Figs. 25 and 26.) 



Silurus (Pimelodus) cocnosus, Richardson (1836), Fauna Bor.-Amer. Fishes, 132. — Cuv. 

 & Ylk.. (1840), XV, 129.— De Kay (1842), Fishes N. Y. 186.— Storer (1846), Sy- 

 nopsis, 402. 

 Amiurus ccenosus. Gill (1862), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 44. — Cope (1870), 1. c. 485. 

 Jordan (1876), Man. Vert. 303. — ^Jordan «fc Copeland, Check List, 159. 



Mahitat. — Maine to Great Lakes and northward. 



