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1164. Anieiurus nebulosus (LcSuour). Horiied pout; Common bullhead; Small 



catfish; Schiu/lkill cat; Sacramento cat. 



Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, eastward to Maine, southwestward to Texas 

 and southwestward to Florida; introduced about 1877 into the Hum- 

 boldt, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Gila Rivers, where it is now 

 excessively abundant. 



Pimelodus nebulosus LeSueur, Mem. Mus., V, 1819, 149, Lake Ontario. 



Pimelodus atrarius DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 185, Wappingers 

 Creek, Dutchess County, N. Y. 



Pimelodus felis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 281, Lake Superior. 



Pimelodus vulpeculus Girard, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, 



160, Charleston, S. C. 



Pimelodus hoyi Girard, loc. cit., 159, Racine, Wis. 



Arneiurus mispilliefisis Cope, Proc, Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 486, Mis- 

 pillion Creek, Del. 



1165. Ameiurus nebulosus catulus (Girard). 



Streams of Texas; abundant. 



Pimelodus catulus Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, 1858, Pt. 4, Fishes, 208, 

 Fort Smith, Ark. 



1166. Ameiurus prosthistius Cope. 



New Jersey. 



Auiiurus prosthistius Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXXV, 1883, 

 133, Batsto River, N. J. 



1167. Ameiurus platycephalus (Girard). Mud cat; Broivn cat. 



Streams of the Carolinas and eastern Georgia, Cape Fear to the Chat- 

 tahoochee. 

 Pimelodus platycephalus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, 



161, Anderson, S. C. 



Amiurus brunneus Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., XI, 1877, 366, 

 Ocmulgee River, Flat Shoals, Ga.; the young of platycephalus. 



1168. Ameiurus brachyacanthus Cope. 



Streams of Texas. 



Amiurus brachyacanthus Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 1880, 35, 

 Wallace Creek, Bandera County, Tex. 



1169. Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque). Black bullhead; Small catfish. 



Northern New York (Genesee River) to Kansas and Texas; common 



especially west of the Mississippi. 

 Silurus melas Rafinesque, Quarterly Jour. Sci. Lond., 1820, 51, Ohio 



River. 

 Silurus xanthocephalus Rafinesque, loc. cit., 1820, 51, Ohio River. 

 Pimelodus pullus DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 184, Lake 



Pleasant, Janet, N. Y. 

 Pimelodus confinis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, 159, 



Racine, Wis. 

 Amiurus obesus Gill, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1862, 45, Nebraska. 

 Amiurus cragini Gilbert, Bull., Washburn Lab. Nat. Hist., I, 1884, 



10, Garden City, Kans. 



1170. Ameiurus marmoratus (Holbrook). 



Lowland streams and swamps from southwestern Indiana (Switz City) 



southward and eastward to Florida. 

 Pimelodus marmoratus Holbrook, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 



1855, 54, South Carolina. 



Genus 376. GRONIAS Cope. Blind catfishes. 



Gronias Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XVI, 1864, 231 {G. nigri- 

 labris Cope. 



1171. Qronias nigrilabris Cope. 



Cave streams tributarj' to Conestoga River in eastern Pennsylvania 

 Gronias nigrilabris Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XVI, 1864, 231, 

 CoJiestoga River, Pa. 



