294 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Vur. SpC'ti';j:JJ Cope. '! "dton 



Slender. Dead short, with very large eye, and short mouth and max- 

 illary. Maxillary not extending beyond middle of-pupil. Eye 3 in liead. 

 Head -I. 1 , ; depth S.\. D. 10; A. 15; Lat. 1. <H5. L. 1 ransv. 10. Small. 

 V\ ilton I'ond, Kennebcc County, Maine; land-locked in fresli water. 

 (Cope.} 



( Osmerus v' di-um Cope, Proc. Amcr. Phil. Soo. Pliilu. 1870, 490.) 



V:ir. afstjotti Co])i-. Cobcsulf-ontic Smelt. 



Stouter. Eye .smaller. Maxillary reaching posterior margin of pupil. 

 Eye H in head. lleadl : , ! ; depth 7. Lat. 1. (58. L. transv. 10. Laud- 

 loeked in Cobessicontic Lake, Kennebec County, Maine. (Cope.) 



<t!>l>otti Cope, I'm,-. Aim-r. Phil. Sue. Phila. L-'TO, 4'JO.) 



481. O. tleaitex strindachner. 



Dark brown above ; sides silvery or golden; bead and body with dark 

 points. Eye two-thirds length of snout. Teeth as in 0. e]H'rlanns and 

 n. mordd.r; maxillary reaching posterior margin of eye, its length live 

 times in distance from tip of lower jaw to dorsal. Height of dorsal half 

 length ol head; heigbt of anal two sevenths. ITeadi; depth ~>L 1). 10; 

 A. \:>: V. 8; Lat. 1.00; L. transv. 10. Port Clarence, Alaska, to north- 

 ern China. (liftin, MSS.) 



induchuer, Sitzungsb. Kais. Akad. Wiss. AYicn, Ixi, 1^70, 



. IIYPOJIESUS 



Smelts. 



1. Pinr. Acad. Nut. Sci. I'liila. Ido2, 1C,'.): type .Iri/i ntuin pri-Hixa (Ird.) 

 Dody rather elong.;':'. modej-ately coni|>ressed, eovei'ed with thin scales 

 of modei-ate si/.e. Head ratln-r pointed. Mouth moderate, formed as 

 in Argyrosomus, the shoriish maxillai-y not extending <|iiite (( mid<lle of 

 : its outline below l>roadl\ eonvr\, lo\\er jaw projecting. Teeth 

 minute, on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. N'entrals 

 inserted directly under middle ol' dorsal, midway between eye and base 

 of caudal. Ilranehiostegals (i-7. North I'acilie.. ('>-, below; .-'to;, 

 middle; in allusion to the position of the \entrals.) 



. II. prcliosus (Qrd. ' -ill. s,trf 



Light olivai-eous: a silvery band along the lateral line. Eye as long 



,>nout, 1.1 in head. fins low, the longest dorsal ray .S in length, 



without caudal; jjcctorals scarcely reaching half way to ventrals, 7 



