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DALLIA DELICATISSIMA, 
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After our return home the Yinretlen fish was examined by 
Professor F. A. Smitt in Stockholm, who stated, in an address 
which he gave on it before the Swedish Academy of Sciences, 
that it belongs to a new species to which Professor Smitt gave 
the name Dallia delicatissima. A closely allied form occurs in 
Alaska, and has been named Dallia pectoralis, Bean. These 
fishes are besides nearly allied to the dog-fish (Umhra Krameri, 
Fitzing), which is found in the Neusidler and Flatten Lakes, and 
in o-rottos and other water-filled subterranean cavities in southern 
Europe. It is remarkable that the European species are con¬ 
sidered uneatable, and even regarded with such loathing that 
the fishermen throw them away as soon as caught because they 
DOG-FISH FROM THE CHUKCH PENINSULA. 
Dallia delicatissima, Smitt. 
Half the natural size. 
consider them poisonous, and fear that their other fish would 
be destroyed by contact with it. They also consider it an 
affront if one asks them for dog-fish.^ If we had known 
this we should not now have been able to certify that Dallia 
delicatissima, Smitt, truly deserves its name. 
In the beginning of July the ground became free of snow, 
and we could now form an idea of how the region looked in 
summer in which we had passed the winter. It was not just 
attractive. Far away in the south the land rose with terrace- 
formed escarpments to a hill, called by us Table Mount, which 
^ Heckel and Kner, Die SilsswasserJiscJie Oesterreichs, p. 295. 
