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24. NOTURUS INSIGNIS, {Richardson) Gill & Jordan. 



Margined Stone Cat. 



(Figs. 56 and 57.) 

 Pimelodon lm-4e, Le Sueur (1819), M6m. du Mus. v, 155. 

 Pimelodus insigne, Richardson (1836), Fauua Boreali-Americana, iii, 132 (name only, 



based ou Le Suf^nr's description). 

 Pimelodus lemnissatus, Cuv. & Val. (1840), xv, 144.— Storer (1846), Synopsis, 405. 

 Nottirus lemniscatus, Girard (1859), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 158.— Gill (1862), Proc. 



Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist. 45.— Guntiier (1864), Cat. Fi-sbes, v, 104.^ — Jordan 



(187G), Man. Vert. 303.— Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check List, 160. 

 Nofnrus occidentalis, Gunther (1864), Cat. Fishes, v, 105 (not of Gill). 

 Noturus marginatus, Baird, MSS.— Cope (1869), Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 237. — 



Cope (1870), Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 484.— Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check 



List, 160.— Jordan (1876), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. — . 



Habitat.-^I'ennsylva.nrci to South Carolina. This species was first 

 noted by Le Sueur under the name of Pimelodon livree, but for some 

 reason that author neglected to give it a classical name. The name of 

 insigne was supplied by Richardson, and that of lemniscatus by Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes. The description of the coloration is such as to leave 

 no possible doubt of the identity of this species with Le Sueur's. 



No satisfactory description of this common fish has yet been pub- 

 lished. It is well distinguished from miurus and exilis by the char- 

 acters given above in the analysis of species. 



25. NOTURUS EXILIS, Nelson. 



Slender Stone Cat. 



(Figs. .58 and 59.) 

 Noiurus exilis, Nelson (1876), Bull. Ills. Mas. Nat. Hist. 51.— Jordan & Copeland 

 (1876), Check List, 160.— Jordan (1877), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. — . 



Habitat. — Wisconsin and Illinois to Missouri and Kansas. 



The synonymy of this species needs no remark. Its relations are 

 entirely with marginatus, from which species it is undoubtedly distinct. 

 Specimens from Wisconsin are much less elongate than Nelson's original 

 types. I do not, however, consider them specifically distinct. 



26. NOTURUS MIURUS, Jordan. 



Variegated Stone Cat. 



(Figs. 60 and 61.) 

 Noturus miurus, Jordan, MSS. — Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check List, 160. — Jordan 



(1877), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 46 (name only).— Jordan (1877), Ann. Lye. Nat. 



Hist. N. Y. — . 

 Noturus 7narginatn8, J ORDAi^ (1876), Man. Vert. 303.— Nelson (1876), Bnll. Ills. Mns. 



Nat. Hist. 50 (not of Baird). 



Habitat. — Great Lakes and Ohio Valley to Wisconsin and Louisiana. 



