102 J. E. Cooper and A. L. Braswell 



Cambarus (Puncticambarus) parrishi Hobbs 

 This species, which is endemic to the Hiwassee River basin, 

 previously was known in North Carolina from two collections made 

 in Clay County in 1959 and 1960 (Hobbs 1981:267). On 22 

 September 1984, we collected 21 specimens at two additional 

 sites: Clay Co.— (1) Fires Crk along FSR 340, 2.3 rd mi (3.7 rd km) 

 NE of end SR 1344 (which becomes FSR 340), Nantahala National 

 Forest, ca. 4.3 air mi (6.9 air km) NNW cntr Hayesville; 1 6 I, 2 9, 

 1 j 9 (NCSM C-2174); (2) trib Fires Crk (likely Rockhouse Crk) 

 along FSR 340A, ca. 0.8 rd mi (1.3 rd km) N jet FSR 340 and 2.9 

 rd mi (4.6 rd km) NE SR 1344, Nantahala National Forest; 16 1, 

 1 6 II, 3 j 6, 4 9, 1 j 9 (NCSM C-2175), 2 j 9, part of adult 

 exuvium (NCSM C-2178), 2 j 6,3] 9 (NCSM C-2180). 



Cambarus parrishi was the only crayfish found at site (1), but 

 at site (2) nine C. b. bartonii also were collected. Of the four C. 

 parrishi taken at site (1), one of the females exhibited exoskeleton 

 decalcification and the male was very soft. At site (2), two males and 

 one female showed decalcification, two of the females were 

 soft, and part of an adult exuvium was found. 



Cambarus (Puncticambarus) reburrus Prins 

 This species is endemic to headwater streams of the Savannah 

 and French Broad river basins, in Buncombe, Henderson, Jackson, 

 and Transylvania counties in the Blue Ridge province of North 

 Carolina (Cooper and Cooper 19776:214). There is some confusion, 

 however, about the precise distribution of the species. Its type locality 

 is a "Small tributary to the Horsepasture River from Sapphire 

 (= Fairfield) Lake off U. S. 64, 5.5 miles east of Cashiers, Jackson 

 County, North Carolina. Sapphire Lake is an impoundment from 

 which the tributary . . . flows several hundred yards into the Horse- 

 pasture River (upper Savannah River drainage)" (Prins 1968:459). It 

 should be noted that Fairfield Lake, although also on a tributary of 

 the Horsepasture River (Long Branch), is about 1.0 air mi (1.6 air 

 km) northwest of Sapphire Lake. 



The type locality was the only known site for the species at 

 the time of its description, but four years later Prins and Hobbs (1972: 

 412) added the French Broad River basin to its range and suggested 

 that the "population described by Prins in the headwaters of the 

 Savannah River is an introduced one." Ross (1971:29-32), however, 

 had earlier discussed evidence for a probable Pleistocene breach of 

 the Blue Ridge by Savannah basin headwaters, and "an obvious encroach- 



