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Subgenus AMKII'RUS Kaflnosqnc. 



223. Aineiurus erebeniras Jordan. 



New Jersey to Florida. 



Amiurus crcbeiinus Jordan, Bull, U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 85, figs. 19 and 20, 1877, 

 St. Johns River, Florida. 



224. Ameiurus natalis (LeSiieur). Yellow Cat. 



Great I^akes region to Virginia and Texas. 



Pimelodus natalis LeSueur, Meni. .Mus., v, 154, 1819, North America. 



225. Ameiurus vulgaris (Thompson). 



Vermont to Minnesota and Illinois. 



Pimelodus vulgaris Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 138, 1842, Lake Champlain. 



226. Ameiurus nebuloatLS (LeSueur). Horned Pout; Common Bullhead ; Schuylkill 



Cat; Small Catfish; Sacramento Cat. 

 Great Lakes, Ohio A^ alley, eastward to Maine, southwestward to Texas, and 



sontheastward to Florida ; introduced into the Sacramento, San Joaquin, 



Humboldt, and Gila rivers. 

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



226a. Ameiurus nebirlosus catulus (Girard). 

 Texas and northward into Arkansas. 

 Pimelodus catulus Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., x, 208, 1858, Fort Smith, Arkansas. 



226b. Aineiurus nebulosus marmoratus (Holbrook). 

 Indiana to Florida. 



Pimelodufi marmoratus Holbrook, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 54, South 

 Carolina. 



227. Ameitirus melas (Rafinesque). Black Bullhead; Small Catfish. 



Northern New York to Kansas and Texas. 



Silurus melas Rafinesque, Quart. Jour. Sci. Lit. Arts Lond. 1820, 51, Ohio 

 River. 



228. Ameiurus platyceplialus (Girard). Mud Cat; Brown Cat. 



Carolina and eastern Georgia, from Cajje Fear River to the Chattahoochee. 

 Pimelodus 2'lati/cephalus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 161, Ander- 

 son, South Carolina, 



Subgenus GUOIVIAS Cope. 



Oronias Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat, Sci. Phila. 1864, 231 (nigrilabris). 



229. Ameiurus nigrilabris (Cope). 



Cavo streams tributary to Conestoga River in eastern Pennsylvania. 

 Gronias nigrilabris Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 231, Conestoga River, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Genus 78. LEPTOPS ilafinesaue. 



Zep^ojjs Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 64, 1820 {riscosus = olivaris) . 



230. Leptops olivaris (Rafinesque). Mud Cat; Yellow Cat; Bashaw; Russian Cat. 



Rivers of the Mississippi A'alley and Southern States, southwest to Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico. 

 Silurus olivaris Rafinesciue, Amer. Month. Mag. 1818, 355, Ohio River. 



Genus 79. NOTURUS Rafinesque. Stone Cats. 



Xoturus Rafines([ue, Amer. Month. Mag., November, 1<S18, 41 (fiavus). 



231. Noturus flavus Rafinesque. Stone Cat. 



Great Lakes region, westward and south to Montana, AVyoming, and Texas. 

 JS'oturus flavus Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. 1818, 41, Falls of Ohio River. 



