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Subgenus /IMEIURCS Baflnesque. 



223. Ameiurus erebennus Jordan. 



New .Tcrsey to Florida. 



Amiiirus erebennus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 85, figs. 19 and 20, 1877, 

 St. Jobus River, Florida. 



224. Ameiurus natalis (LeSuenr). Yellow Cat. 



Great Lakes region to Virginia and Texas. 



rimelodus natalis LeSueur, Mem. Mus., v, 154, 1819, North America. 



225. Ameiurus vulgaris (Thompson). 



Vermont to Minnesota and Illinois. 



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



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



Cat; Small Catfish; Sacramento Cat. 

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



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



Humboldt, and Gila rivers. 

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



226a. Ameiurus nebulosus catulus (Girard). 

 Texas and northward into Arkansas. 

 Pimelodus catulus Girard, Pao. R. R. Surv., x, 208, 1858, Fort Smith, Ai'kansas. 



226b. Ameiurus nebulosus marmoratus (Holbrook). 



Indiana to Florida. 



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

 Carolina. 



227. Ameiurus melas (Rafiuesque). Black Bullhead ; Small Catfish. 



Northern New York to Kansas and Texas. 



Silnrus melas Rafinesque, Quart. Jour. Sci. Lit. Arts Loud. 1820, 51, Ohio 

 River. 



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



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

 Pimelodus jilati/cephalus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 161, Ander- 

 son, South Carolina. 



Subgenus OROMAS Cope. 



Gronias Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 231 {nigrilabris) . 



229. Ameiurus nigrilabris (Cope). 



Cave streams tributary to Conestoga River in eastern Pennsylvania. 

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

 Pennsylvania. 



Genus 78. LEPTOPS Eafinesgue. 



Leptops Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 64, 1820 {viscosus ^olivaris) . 



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



Rivers of the Mississippi Valley and Southern States, southwest to Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico. 

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



Genus 79. NOTURUS RaSnesque. Stone Cats. 



Xoturns Rafines([ue, Amer. Month. Mag., November, 1818, 41 (flavus), 



231. Noturus flavus Rafinesque. Stone Cat. 



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

 Noturus flavus Rafiuesque, Amer. Month. Mag. 1818, 41, Falls of Ohio River. 



