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MEMOIRS OP THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 15 
I had the pleasure of exploring several of these caves myself a few years ago, and was especially interested in one 
that did not seem to have been named, hut that certainly deserved it, as well as others that have been admired in 
print. From a great gateway, perhaps 80 feet wide, the passage dwindled to a point where we could barely stand 
erect. This colossal trumpet magnifies the human voice to a deafening volume; and the name of the Trumpet 
Cave would not he inappropriate. A large swift stream issues from Blue Spring Cave near Mitchell, whose current 
at high water is said to sweep completely across the White River, into which it empties. It has been explored for about 
3 miles, and contains great basins cut down 100 feet into the rock and overflowing with limpid water. (Pp. 123-125.) 
Dr. John Sloan also wrote us in 1873 as follows regarding this river: 
Did you ever hear of Lost River? It is a stream of considerable magnitude which formerly ran upon the 
surface of the ground, and at spring floods still fills the upper as well as lower channel. It sinks into the ground at 
various points and again rises to the surface seven miles below, as is proved by sawdust from the mills upon it above. 
It has crayfish above the sink with eyes; within the subterranean passage without and with eyes, pellucid. I 
intend soon to explore it below, as I have recently above. There is too much water to get to its under-ground channel 
before June. The bullheads are found mostly in cave streams. 
Dr. Sloan again visited Lost River in July of the same year, and under date July 22, 1873, 
wrote me as follows: 
I went in the interior 60 miles on the 10th instant, for the purpose of procuring some eyeless fishes before their 
spawning season. I crawled a long distance into a muddy cave until I reached the under-ground channel of Lost 
River, which I found very high and as thick as gruel with mud; of course, I could see no fishes. I caught some 
eyeless beetles and some with eyes, which I send you for names. Next day I went into another cave, where I secured 
three Amblyopses and five crayfishes, C. pellucidus. It has been too wet during the spring and summer to do anything 
in wet caves. 
The specimens of beetles came during my absence from Salem, and in some way were over¬ 
looked or mislaid and net named, with the exception of a large Asellus communis , which was 
bleached nearly white, though with distinct eyes. It is broad, the telson broad, and the antennae 
are unusually stout, but it has preserved the exact shape and sculpturing of specimens of the 
normal form and size received from Indiana. 
LIST OF THE ANIMALS OF THE WYANDOTTE CAVES. 
Crustacea : 
Cauloxenus stygius Cope. Parasite on blind-fish from a well near Wyandotte Cave. 
Coecidotcea stygia Pack. 
Cambarus pellucidus (Tellkf.). 
Myriopoda : 
Pseudotremia cavernarum Cope. Also a single specimen of var. Carterensis Pack. 
\ Arachnida : 
Orihates f lucifugus Pack. Little Wyandotte Cave. 
Plialangodes flavescens (Cope). 
Linypliia subterranea Emerton. 
Insecta: 
Degeeria cavernarum Pack. 
Campodea cooTcei Pack. 
Macliilis sp. (Cope.) 
CeuthopMlus stygius Scudd. 
Ceutliophilus sloanii Pack. Little Wyandotte Cave. 
Afyopsocus or Elipsocus sp. (Pack.) 
Anophthalmus tenuis Horn. (Cope.) Little Wyandotte (Pack.). 
AnopMhalmus eremita Horn. (Cope.) Little Wyandotte (Pack.). 
Fishes : 
Amblyopsis spelceus Tellkf. Wells near Wyandotte Cave. 
Besides these there occur the following twilight species: Quedius spelceus Horn; Lesteva n. sp. 
Horn; Pliora sp.; Blepharoptera defessa, Osteu Sacken (the Anthomyia of Cope’s lists); Galops 
n. sp. 7, and an Aleocharid allied to Tachusa (Cope, Amer. Nat., vi., 413). Porcellio sp. blind. 
It will be seen that Wyandotte Cave has about one-third as many species as Mammoth, while 
theMyriopod ( Pseudotremia cavernarum) and thePhalangid (Phalangodes flavescens) are much more 
numerous in individuals than any terrestrial Arthropods occurring in Mammoth Cave. 
