. The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Cave animals; Caves. 84 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Order Coleoptera. Adelops hirtus Tellkf., Archiv f. Naturgeschichte, 1844. Mammoth Cave. Anophthalmus tellkampfii Ericlison, N. Y. Journ. Med., 85, July, 1845. Mammoth and other caves in Kentucky. Anophthalmias menetriesii Motsch. Mammoth, Diamond, and other caves in Kentucky. Anophthalmuspusio Horn. Anophthalmus tenuis Horn. Wyandotte Cave, Bradford Cave, Indiana. Anophthalmus eremita Horn. Wyandotte Cave. Anophthalmu


. The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Cave animals; Caves. 84 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Order Coleoptera. Adelops hirtus Tellkf., Archiv f. Naturgeschichte, 1844. Mammoth Cave. Anophthalmus tellkampfii Ericlison, N. Y. Journ. Med., 85, July, 1845. Mammoth and other caves in Kentucky. Anophthalmias menetriesii Motsch. Mammoth, Diamond, and other caves in Kentucky. Anophthalmuspusio Horn. Anophthalmus tenuis Horn. Wyandotte Cave, Bradford Cave, Indiana. Anophthalmus eremita Horn. Wyandotte Cave. Anophthalmus pubescens Horn. Anophthalmus audax Horn., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, x, 272. Ronald's Cave. Anophthalmus interstitialis Hubbard, Amer. Ent., iii, 52, 1880. Mammoth Cave. Undetermined blind larva, Pack., Amer. Naturalist, May, 1876, PI. ii, page 8. Amillus explanatus Horn. Alabaster Cave, California. PL xviii, fig. 5. Order Diptera. Chironomus 2 sp. Borborus sp. Sciara sp. Mycetophila sp. Blepharoptera defessa Osten Sacken, Bull. TL S. Geol. Survey, iii, 1C8, 1877. Mammoth and other caves in Ken- tucky ; Wyandotte Cave, Indiana ; cave in William's Canon, Manitou, Colorado. Anthomyia sp. Phora sp. Hubbard, Amer. Ent., iii, 82. Mammoth Cave. Pholeomyia leucozoma Bilim. Cave of Cacahuamilpa, Mexico. V.—THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CAVE ANIMALS. This, of course, is founded ou that of the fauna of the upper world in the region of the caves, and yet within such a region there are, as one may see by an examination of the foregoing lists of the faunas of the better-known caves, radical differences in the fauna of Mammoth and Wyandotte Caves, which lie in the same faunal region of the upper world. Beginning with the better-known groups, we will call attention to some features in their dis- tribution in the caves of the Central and Middle Atlantic States. It Will be noticed that Adelops hirtus only occurs in Mammoth and adjoining caves *. e., Dixon's, Proctor's, Diamond, and other cav


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