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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 upper ones 

 are black. 



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

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



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

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

 the short, truncate caudal fin of the second. 



12. AMIUEUS NATALIS, {Le Sueur) Gill 

 Catfish— YeUow Cat. 



a. Subspecies Natalis. 



(Figs. 21 and 22.) 



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

 405. 

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

 Fisnes Brit. Mus. v, 101. 

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



HaMtat. — Great Lakes to North Carolina and south, 

 6. Subspecies Lividtjs, Baf. 



(Figs. 23 and 24.) 



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

 fuscatus). 

 Pimelodus lividus, Rafinesque (1820), Icli. 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. 



Amiums felimts, 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) ccenosus, Richardson (1836), Fauna Bor.-Amer. Fishes, 132. — Cuv. 

 & Val. (1840), XV, 129.— De Kay (1842), Fishes N. Y. 186.— Stoker (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 & Copeland, Chock List, 159. 



Rdbitat. — Maine to Great Lakes and northward. 



