170 SALMONIDJi. 



Tlie following description refers, perhaps, to a fish of this genus : — 



I'lperlanus cliinensis, Basileiusky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Wat. Mosc, 1855, 

 p. 242. 

 " Caput cute denudatum, tenue, depressum, triangulare seu lanci- 

 forme, transparens, apice acutura, occipite dilatatum. Eictus fissus, 

 ad oculos nigros globose prominentes attingens. Maxillae, vomer et 

 lingua dentibus parvulis, acutis armata. Nucha paulisper constricta. 

 Oriticium branchialo araplura ab occipite ad mentnm fissura. Pinnae 

 pectorales breves, basi membranaceae et propcndentes ; abdorainales 

 antrorsum valde admotae ; dorsalis antica 15-radiata, postrorsum 

 remota et anali paulo interposita ; postica brevissima et postremo 

 analis longo radio rospondens. Caudalis bifida. Caro sapidissima. 

 In siuu Tschiliensi habitat. Versus Pekinum Decembre congelatus 

 advehitui"." 



9. MALLOTUS. 



Mallotus, Cuv. Regne Aniin. 



Body covered with minute scales, which are somewhat larger along 

 the lateral line and along each side of the bellj' ; in mature males 

 these scales become elongate, lanceolate, densely tiled, with free 

 projecting points, forming villous bands. Cleft of the mouth wide ; 

 maxillary very thin, lamelliform, extending to below the middle of 

 the eye. Lower jaw the longer, partly received between the max- 

 illaries. Dentition very feeble, the teeth being minute, of equal size, 

 forming single series on the jaw-bones, vomer, palatine, and pterygoid 

 bones ; only the teeth on the tongue are somewhat larger, and dis- 

 posed in an elHptical patch. Pectoral fins large, horizontal, with 

 broad base. Pseudobranchiae present, but rudimentary. Stomach 

 with a long blind sac ; pyloric appendages very short, in small 

 number. Testes double ; ovary single ; ova very small. 



Coasts of Arctic America and North-eastern Asia. 



1. Mallotus villosus. 



The Capelin. Ferii-lodde v. Quette-lodde (male) ; Sild-lodde v. 



Rogn-lodde (fem.). Greenlandish : Angmaksak; Seunersulik (male 



with villosities), Sennersiutsut (male without). Esquimaux : Ang- 



maggeuck. 

 Lodde, Egede, Det gamle Gronlands nye Perlustration, p. 50 ; Cratitz, 



Historie von Gronl. p. 125 : Strom, Sdndmor, i. p. 393; Pontoppidun, 



Forste Fiinog. af Norges Not. Hist. ii. p. 217. 

 Keplings, Crantz, Fvrtsetz. Hist. Gn'inl. p. 309. 

 Lodna, Olafssc'/i, Peis. Soroe, pp. 358, G95, taf. 28. 

 Clupea vin'osa, Midi. Prodr. p. 245 ; L. Gm. iii. p. 1409. 

 Salmo arcticus, Fahr. Faun. Gronl p. 177. 

 Capelau, Duhamcl, Pcches, ii. p. 149, pi. 26 ; Pennant, Arct. Zool. iii. 



p. .394. 

 Salmo gi'onlandicus, Bl. viii. p. 99, taf. 381 ; Richards. Franhl. Journ. 



p. 710. 



socialis. Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 389. 



villosus, Faher, Fische Islands, p. 174. 



