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between two and three inches in length. These were 

 firmly attached, one on either side of the body, just in 

 front of the caudal fin. 



2. Lampetra wilderi Gage. Color above, uni- 

 form blue-black ; below rather abruptly silvery ; fins 

 plain, light in color. At the time when the seining 

 was done none of this species were taken ; but a few 

 weeks earlier, about the middle of April, they were 

 observed by Mr. J. D. Parker to be common on the 

 ripples of the smaller streams. Four speciiuens were 

 taken on one ripple at one dip of an insect net. 



PISCES. 



3. Ameiurus melas ( Rafinesque ). Head 3V^ ; 

 depth 31/2; eye 7 ; A. 17 or is. Color, black above, 

 white or yellowish below ; barbels all dark. Rare in 

 Big Jelloway ; but an old creek bed, now a muddy, 

 brushy pond at some distance from the creek contained 

 great numbers of them. 



4. Noturus fJayus Rafinesque. Head 4; depth 5; 

 eye 7. Yellowish olive ; pale below. Not common ; 

 taken only in Big Jelloway. 



5. Catostomus commersonii (Lacepede). Head 

 3% to 41/4 ; depth W2 to 5 ; eye 5V2 to ; scales JO or 11 

 -05 to 68-7. Above, olive green, irregularly mottled 

 with black ; below, silvery ; fins all plain, the caudal 

 and lower fins tinged with orange. Common ; taken 

 in all streams. 



6. Catostomus nig^ricansheSaeur. Head 4; depth 

 5 to 5V2 ; eye 5 to 51/2; scales 7-50; i'. 11 ; A. 7. 

 Above, pale olivaceous with a brassy luster, with 

 about five oblique irregular dark cross-bars ; below, 

 white ; fins all plain, the lower tinged with dull 

 orange ; anal and lower part of caudal fin tuberculate. 

 Taken in all the streams ; especially common in the 

 larger streams on swift ripples. 



