North Carolina Crayfishes 99 



The following collections of C. dubius are of distributional 

 and natural history interest. NEW RIVER BASIN. Watauga Co.— 

 (1) seepage area near small, shallow creek (South Fk New R dr) in 

 hardwood ravine and meadow on E side Howard Knob, off Hidden 

 Valley Circle, 0.3 rd mi (0.5 rd km) from jet Chestnut Drive, in north 

 Boone; 3<?II, 8jd,2$,8j$ (NCSM C-1812), 2 9 with attached 

 young (NCSM C-1813), 2 j 9 (NCSM C-1817), 1 6 I, 5 6 II, 3 j 6, 

 2 9, 5 j 9 (NCSM C-1818), 25 Jul 1984, RWV, ALB, JEC. FRENCH 

 BROAD RIVER BASIN. Haywood Co.— {2) bog near small stream 

 (trib Cold Springs Crk, Pigeon R dr), in rhododendron thicket in steep 

 ravine along FSR 148, Pisgah National Forest, 3.6 rd mi (5.8 rd km) 

 SW jet SR 1334; 1 6 I, 2 6 II, 4 j 9 (NCSM C-2192), 23 Sep 1984, 

 ALB, JEC. YADKIN-PEE DEE RIVER BASIN. Surry Co.— (3) Home 

 Crk Off SR 2072, ca. 8.3 air mi (13.3 air km) S town Pilot Mountain; 

 1 S II (NCSM C-95), 20 Jul 1976, R. M. Shelley, ALB; (4) open 

 bog Schuyler pasture, ca. 0.6 mi (1.0 km) N Low Gap, between 

 E side NC 89 and Gulley Crk (Fisher R dr); 1 9, 19 Aug 1994, A. 

 B. Somers. Wilkes Co. — (5) Stone Mountain State Park; 1 6 I 

 (NCSM C-1106), 16 Jul 1975, D. S. Lee, P. Hertl; (6) Hunting Crk 

 at SR 2428, 0.3 rd mi (0.5 rd km) S NC 115, ca. 9 air mi (14.4 air 

 km) SE Wilkesboro; 1 9 (NCSM C-1234), 15 Jul 1976, F. D. Scott, 

 M. E. Filka. 



At the Watauga County site the C. dubius, cobalt blue in 

 color, were dug from burrows in a mucky seep near the creek. One of 

 the females (NCSM C-1813) had young attached to its pleopods. 

 Thirteen specimens of C. asperimanus also were collected at this 

 site, but occupied a different habitat than the C. dubius (see the C. 

 asperimanus account). At the Haywood County site the C. dubius, 

 this time of a brick red color morph, also were dug from burrows in a 

 boggy area, about 3 to 4 m from a small stream. The form I male, one 

 of the form II males, and two of the juvenile females showed consider- 

 able exoskeleton decalcification, and the other form II male was soft. 

 In the stream near this bog, eight C. b. bartonii were found under 

 rocks or dug from the stream substrate. The female from site (4) 

 in Surry County was found walking in wet grass at about 1900 

 hours under rainy conditions. 



Cambarus (Jugicambarus) nodosus Bouchard and Hobbs 



Only two specimens of this burrowing crayfish, females from 



two separate localities in Cherokee County, have been reported from 



North Carolina (Bouchard and Hobbs 1976:13). We collected 45 specimens 



of this species from two additional localities in the Hiwassee River 



