RAFINESQUE ON OHIO FISHES. 739 
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A third paper, in the November number of the same journal is called 
‘“‘ Hurther account of Discoveries in Natural History in the Western States, 
by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Esq. Communicated in a letter 
from that gentleman to the editor, Lexington, October 5, 1818,” 
In this are described the following new species, and the genera to 
which they belong: 
Pomoxis annularis, Noturus flavus, Sarchirus vittatus. 
A fourth paper by Rafinesque on Ohio animals was published in the 
Journal de Physique, de Chymie et d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, June, 
1819. It is entitled “Prodrome de 70 nouveaux Genres d’Animaux 
découverts dans Vintérieur des Htats-Unis d’Amérique durant l’anée 
1818.” 
The genera of fishes there noticed are the following: Aplodinotus, 
EHtheostoma, Pogostoma, Aplocentrus, Calliuwrus, Lepomis with its sub-genera, 
Pomotis and Apomotis, Notemigonus, Amphiodon, Amblodon, Cycleptus, Noturus, 
Pilodictis, and Litholepis. ‘The species added to the list are: 
Aplodinotus granniens, , Calliurus punctulatus, Ambledon niger, 
Etheostoma flabeliaris, Lepomis cyanellus, Cycleptus nigrescens, 
Etheostoma caprodes, Lepomis macrochirus, Noturus luteus, 
Etheostoma blennioides, Notemigonus auratus, Pilodictis limosus, 
Pogostoma leucops, Amphiodon alveoides, Litholepis adamantinus. 
Aplocentrus calliops, Amblodon bubalus, 
The fifth paper by Rafinesque on Ohio Fishes is “ Description of the 
Silures or Cat-fishes of the River Ohio, by OC. S. Rafinesque, Professor of 
Botany in the Transylvania University of Lexington, Kentucky,” from 
Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Arts, Royal Institution, 
London, 1820, ix. 
Here are described the following species. 
Silurus maculatus, Silurus cerulescens, Silurus lividus, 
var. erythroptera, var. melanurus, | var. fuscatus, 
Silurus pallidus, Silurus argentinus, Silurus melas, 
Var. marginatus, Silurus nebulosus, Silurus cupreus, 
var. lateralis, Silurus viscosus, Silurus xanthocephalus, 
var. leucoptera, Silurus limogus. 
Rafinesque now desired to gather together these scattered papers, with 
their confused and often contradictory nomenclature into one coherent 
work, and so he began the publication of a series of descriptions of the 
fishes of the Ohio River in the “ Western Review and Miscellaneous 
Magazine,’ published at Lexington, Kentucky. This publication 
began December, 1319 and closed November, 1820. 
Oversheets of this series of articles were bound and repaged as a small 
volume under the following title: 2 
