The Kansas University Science Bulletin (Vol. I, No. 1)Various
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The Kansas University Science Bulletin (Vol. I, No. 1)
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So far as reported, this species is confined to a narrow strip of
territory running north for about eighty miles from the southern
boundary of the state and drained by the Arkansas river.
=3. Cambarus gracilis= Bundy.
Specimens of this species are hard to obtain, and this doubtless
accounts for its few localities. It is found in the territory drained
by the Arkansas (1) as well as that drained by the Kansas river (2).
In August, 1901, I found an adult female of _C. gracilis_ in a stagnant
pond near Lawrence—the only time I have ever taken an adult specimen
in open water during the summer.
=4. Cambarus diogenes= Girard.
Reported so far only from a limited territory along the Kansas and
Missouri rivers, in the northeastern part of the state. As with _C.
gracilis_, the difficulty of obtaining material probably accounts for
the rarity of the reports on this species.
=5. Cambarus immunis= Hagen.
Mr. Crevecœur collected _C. immunis_ in a stagnant pond on the prairie
near Onaga, Pottawatomie county, April 1, 1901.
The pond had been in existence about six years, and had never been
known to go dry. The nearest creek was about a quarter of a mile
away. They were probably never connected when the water was high in
the creek. No fish had ever been taken in the pond, but specimens
of _Amblystoma tigrinum_ (green) were found. (_A. tigrinum_ and _C.
immunis_ are sometimes found in the same ponds in Douglas county.)
Among a dozen specimens given to me, some of the females were carrying
eggs but none were noticed with young.
Mr. Crevecœur drained the pond in obtaining the material, and was
careful to secure a representative collection. If _C. gracilis_ were
common in the region, it would not be improbable that females would be
found in the pond at this time.
Reports so far would indicate a distribution of this species from
the Missouri river west along the Kansas and its tributaries nearly
two-thirds the distance across the state.
=5a. Cambarus immunis Hagen, var. spinorostris= Faxon.
The limits of distribution are embraced within those given for _C.
immunis_.
=6. Cambarus nais= Faxon.
So far as reported, this species is confined to the southeastern
portion of the state, drained by the tributaries of the Arkansas river.
=7. Cambarus virilis= Hogue.
23. Wakarusa river, Douglas county.
24. Bull Foot creek, Lincoln county. Taken under stones, in about six
inches of running water. Miss Ella Weeks, coll.
25. Spillman creek, Lincoln county. Under stones, in shallow running
water. Miss Ella Weeks, coll.
26. Wildcat creek, about two miles west of Manhattan, Riley county.
27. Crayfish are not at all common in the lower part of the Kansas
river, at least near Lawrence, where I have had opportunity to observe
it. The fishermen, as a rule, say there are none in the river. I have,
however, seen the casts of _C. virilis_, and think it hardly probable
that they could have washed in from any of the small tributaries.
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