294 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 Family LXV. THYMALLIDiE. The Graylings. 



Genus 239, THYMALLUS Cuvier. 



Tlu/maUus Cuvier, Kcgue Anim., ed. 2, ii, 306. 1829 {thymaUm), (not TIn/waJus 

 Latreille, 1802, a genus of Coleoptera). 



805. Thymallus signifer (Richardson). Arctic Grayling; /'ofs.soH Jlleu. 

 Mackenzie River to Ala.ska and the Arctic Ocean. 



Coregonus signifer Riciiard.son, Franklin's Jour. 1823,711, Winter Lake near 

 Fort Kutcritrise, 15ritish America. 



806 Thymallu.? ontariensis Cuvier & ValencionnPR. Michigan Grayling. 



Streams of nortliern Michijjan ; formerly abundant in Au S;ible River, .Jordan 

 River, and otiier streams in tlie southern peninsula; Otter Creek, near 

 Keweenaw, in the northern peninsula. 

 Thymallius ontarienxis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxi, 4.52, 1848, 

 said to have been brought by Milbert from Lake Ontario. 



806a. Thymallus ontariensis montanus Milner. Montana Grayling. 

 Madison and Gallatin rivers, Montana. 



Thymallus montanus Milner, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. 1872-73 (1874), 711, tribu- 

 tary of Missouri River at Camp Baker, Montana. 



Family LXVI. ARGENTINID-ffi. The Smelts. 



Genus 240. MALLOTUS Cuvier. Capclins. 

 Mallotus Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, ii, 305, 1829 (villosa). 



807. Mallotus villosus (Miillcr). Capelin ; Lodde. 



Arctic America, south to Cape Cod and Alaska; Kamchatka. 

 Clupea villosa Mliller, Prodr. Zool. Dan., 245, 1777, Greenland. 



Genus 241. THALEICHTHYS Girard. Eulachon. 



Thaleichtln/s Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., Fishes, 32.5, 1858 (ateven8i = 

 pacificus). 



808. Thaleichthys pacificus (Richardson). Eulachon; Candle-fish; Oolachan. 



Oregon to Alaska. 



iSalmo (Mallotus) pacificus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., iii, 22(1, 1836, 

 Columbia River. 



Genus 242 OSMEEUS (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



Osmerus (Artedi) Linu;eus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 310, 1758 (eperlanus). 



Subgenus SPIRINCHUS Jordan & Ererniann. 



Spi7'inchus .Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 522, 1896 

 {thaleichthys). 



809. Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres. 



Pacific Coast from San Francisco northward to I?ristol Bay in Alaska. 

 Osmerus thaleichthys Ayros, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1860, 62, Sau Francisco. 



810. Osmerus attenuatus Lockington. 



California from San Francisco northward. 



Osmerus attenuatus Lockington, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mua. 1880,(56, San Francisco. 



Siili|;'(>niis OSMKUrS (Artedi) Linn.Tous. 



811. Osmerus mordax (Mitchill). American Smelt; Ice-fish. 



Atlantic Coast of United States from Virginia northward to Gulf of St. 



Lawrence; Lakon Cliamplain and Mem])hreuiagog. 

 Atherina mordax Mitchill. Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 446, New York. 



811a, Osmerus mordax spectrum (Coi)e). Wilton Smelt. 



Landlocked in Wilton Pond, Kennebec County, Maine, 



Osmerus .-spectrum C<)i)e, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. I'hila. 1870, liK), Wilton Pond, 

 Kennebec County, Maine. 



