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



County (see Prins and Hobbs 1972:412 for localities near Black 

 Mountain and Swannanoa, and the additional Buncombe County 

 locality listed below). Prins and Hobbs (1972:412) reported the species 

 from "Madison County — 3.5 mi. west of Old Fort in Pisgah National 

 Forest on U. S. Hwy. 70, . . . 17 June 1940, J. C. Moore, coll.," and 

 added, "These specimens are somewhat atypical and are thus 

 tentatively assigned to this species." Hobbs (1989:27) included 

 Madison County in the range of the species. The locality in 

 question, however, is in McDowell County and in the headwaters of 

 the Catawba River basin, not the French Broad. Old Fort is over 5 air 

 mi (8 air km) east of the Buncombe County line and the nearest 

 headwater creeks of the Swannanoa River (French Broad). The 

 Madison County line is some 24 air mi (38 air km) west of Old Fort, 

 so Madison County is in error. Hobbs very kindly loaned us the 

 specimens collected over 50 years ago at this site (USNM 131904; 1 

 j 8, 3 j $). Comparison with C. reburrus of similar sizes and sexes 

 showed that the questionable specimens did not belong to this 

 species. Hobbs later pointed out (in litt.) that they may belong to an 

 undescribed Puncticambarus that occurs in the Catawba River 

 basin, one of those subsumed under C. (P.) sp. C. 



Further doubt is cast on the occurrence of C. reburrus in lower 

 parts of the French Broad basin by collections we made in July and 

 September 1984. We collected over 300 specimens at 11 sites of 

 various kinds in the Pisgah National Forest in Madison County, and 

 78 specimens at 4 sites in the Pigeon River drainage in Haywood 

 County, but found no C. reburrus. Our current knowledge, then, 

 indicates that this species is absent from the Pigeon (and probably 

 Nolichucky) hydrologic units of the French Broad, and from the main 

 French Broad and its tributaries northwest of the Asheville area. 



Hobbs and Peters (1977:36) reported the ostracod, Dactylocy there 

 megadactylus Hart and Hart, an ectocommensal of several crayfish 

 species, from 37 localities in North Carolina, "in which it is confined 

 to the Piedmont Plateau." They inadvertently listed C. reburrus among 

 the ostracod's hosts, but their distribution map for D. megadactylus 

 (Hobbs and Peters 1977:71) showed no localities within the range of 

 this Blue Ridge crayfish. 



So many additional collections of C. reburrus have been 

 made from Henderson County, particularly from the French Broad 

 and Mills rivers, that we see no reason to list them. The following 

 localities, however, are of sufficient interest to be specified: Buncombe 

 Co.— (1) Swannanoa R at SR 2416, 0.1 rd mi (0.2 rd km) S jet 

 SR 2002, ca. 1.5 air mi (2.4 air km) NW Wilson; numbers and sexes 



