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432. Thaleichthys albatrossis (Jordan and Gilbert). Kodiak smelt. 



OS Kodiak Island, Alaska. 



Osmerus albatrossis Jordan and Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, 



Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1898, 2823, Kodiak Island; probably 



not distinct from Thaleichthys pacificus. 



Genus 146. SPIRINCHUS Jordan and Evermann. 



Spirinchus Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., I, 

 1896, 522 {Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres). 



433. Spirinchus thaleichthys (Ayres). 



Pacific coast of America from San Francisco northward to Bristol Bay, 



Alaska. 

 Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1860, 62, 



San Francisco. 



Genus 147. ALIOSMERUS Hubbs. 



Allosmerus Hubbs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXXVIII, 1925, 53 {Osmerus 



attenuatus Lockiiigton). 



434. Allosmerus attenuatus (Lockington) . 



Coast of California, from San Francisco northward. 

 Osmerus attenuatus Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 66, 

 San Francisco. 



Genus 148. OSMERUS lacepede. Smells. 



Osmerus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 229 (Salmo eperlanus L.). 

 Eperlanus Gaimard, Voy. Island and Greenland, 1851 (Salmo eper- 

 Inrtiis L.) . 



435. Osmerus dentex Steindachner. Rainbow herring. 



Coast of Alaska and south on the Asiatic coast to northern China. 

 Osmerus dentex Steindachner, Sitzungsb. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXI, 

 1870, 420, northern China. 



436. Osmerus mordax (Mitchill). American smell; Icefish. 



Atlantic coast of United States, from Virginia northward to Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence; Lakes Champlain and Mcmphremagog. 



Atherina mordax Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 446, 

 New York. 



Osmerus viridescens LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, 230, 

 coast of Maine. 



437. Osmerus mordax spectrum (Cope). Wilton smelt. 



Wilton Pond, Kcnnolicc County, Me. 



Ostnerus spectrum Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XI, 1870, 490, Wilton 

 Pond, Kennebec County, Me. 



438. Osmerus mordax abbotti (Cope). Cobessicontic smelt. 



Landlockofl in Cobessicontic Lake, Kennebec County, Me. 

 Osmerus abbotti Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XI, 1870, 490, Cobessi- 

 contic Lake, Me. 



439. Osmerus sergeant! " Norris. 



New York Bay and southward. 



Osmerus snrqcnnli Norris, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XX, 1868, 93, 

 Schuylkill River, N. J. 



Genus 149. HYPOMESUS Gill. Surf smelts. 



Mesopus 23 Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 14 {Argentina 



pretiosa Girard). 

 Hypomesus Gill, loc. cit., 15 {Argentina pretiosa Girard). 



440. Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard). Surf smelt. 



Coast of California and Oregon, from Monterey northward. 



Argentina pretiosa Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 155, 



San Francisco. 

 Osmerus elongalus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1854, 17, San 



Franci-sco. 



" The flsh is deKcribed, hut not namod, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 18fll, .18. It is named in 

 Proc. Acad. N'at. .Sci. Phila., XX, IHf.H, V-i. 



^ AfetopuK, a namp left in ty(>c throufi,'h failure to correct proof sheets. Hypomesus of same date, a page 

 lower, chosen by author as name. 



