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other "chubs," with the exception of the bloater (Jioyi). 

 Extreme examples selected from hundreds of specimens in the 

 field measure only 246 mm. The fish are thin, as well as 

 small, and are consequently little esteemed by the fish-smokers. 

 The kiyi occurs most abundantly in water deeper than 60 

 fathoms and is probably generally distributed at such depths 

 tbroughout the upper Great Lakes. 



The type is a female specimen. Catalog No. 84100, United 

 States National Museum, 191 mm. in length to the base of 

 the caudal, collected in Lake Michigan on August 23, 1920, 

 12 miles E X S of the mouth of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Chan- 

 nel, in about 60 fathoms of water. Paratypes, deposited in 

 the Museum of Zoology, were obtained in Lake Michigan on 

 March 20, 191.9, 12 miles west of Grand Haven ; on Jime 29, 

 1920, 5 miles N X E of Charlevoix; on August 12, 1920, 15 

 miles SE X S j/j S of Manistique ; on August 19, 1920, 20 

 miles E 3^ N of Rock Island; on August 23, 1920, 12 miles 

 E X S of the mouth of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Channel; on 

 August 24, 1920, 10 miles E x N of Algona/; on August 28, 

 1920, 9 miles NW of Manistee; on August 30, 1920, 12 miles 

 and 17 miles W ^ S of Ludington; on September 3, 1920, 22 

 miles NW x N >^ N of Michigan City ; on September 23, 1920, 

 27 miles ESE of Milwaukee ; on September 25, 1920, 18 miles 

 E >2 S of Port Washington; on October i, 1920, 11 miles SE 

 of Sheboygan ; on October 4, 1920, 9 miles north of Point 

 Betsie; on October 11, 1920, 18 miles NxW ji W, and on 

 November 19, 1920, 30 miles NNW of Michigan City. Other 

 specimens were collected from Lake Superior ofif Grand 

 Marais, on October 3, 1917; and from Lake Huron, on Sep- 

 tember 12 and 21, and October 17 and 20, 1917, in the center 

 of the lake east of Alpena; on September 14 and 19, 1917, in 

 the center of the lake northeast of Alpena; on September 18, 



