170 SALMONID-E. 



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



Eperlanus chinensis, Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc 1855, 

 p. 242. 



'* Caput cute denudatum, tenue, depressum, triangulare seu lanci- 

 forme, transparens, apice acutum, occipite dilatatum. Rictus fissus, 

 ad oculos nigros globose prominentes attingens. Maxillae, vomer et 

 lingua dentibus parvuUs, acutis armata. Nucha paulisper eonstricta. 

 Orificium branchiale amplum ab occipite ad mentum fissum. Pinnae 

 pectorales breves, basi membranaceae et propendentes ; abdominales 

 antrorsum valde adraotae ; dorsalis antica 15-radiata, postrorsum 

 remota et anali paulo interposita ; postiea brevissima et postremo 

 analis longo radio respondens. Caudalis bifida. Caro sapidissima. 

 In sinu TschUiensi habitat. Versus Pekinum Decembre congelatus 

 advehitur." 



9. MALLOTUS. 

 Mallotus, Cuv. Bigne Ardm. 



Body covered with minute scales, which are somewhat larger along 

 the lateral hne and along each side of the belly ; in mature males 

 these scales become elongate, lanceolate, densely tiled, ^dth 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. Fem-lodde v. Quette-lodde (male) ; SUd-lodde v. 



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



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



maggeuck. 

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



Historie von Gronl. p. 125 ; Strom, Soiidmor, i. p. 393 j Pantoppidan, 



Forste Fondg. af Norges Nat. Hist. ii. p. 217. 

 Keplings, Crantz, Fortsetz. Hut. Gronl. p. 309. 

 Lodna, Olafssen, Meis. Soroe, pp. 358, 695, taf. 28. 

 Clupea villosa, Midi. Prodr. p. 245 ; L. Gm. iii. p. 1409. 

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

 Capelan. Dvhainel, Peches, ii. p. 149, pi. 26 j Pennant, Arct. Zool. iii. 



p. 394. 

 Salmo gronlandicus, Bl. viii. p. 99, taf. 381 j IU,chards. Frankl. Journ. 



p. 710. 



socialis, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. p. 380 



villosus, Faber, Fische Islands, p. 174. 



