* to ventral. Latter inserted well before dorssl and 
reaches vent close before anal, 1 1/3 to 14 in head. 
Color in Alcohol; brownish, paler below, Fins brownish. 
Length 285 mm. Two examples, labeled "Pacific Coast, 
North America.” No. 83,557, . M. We think these are 
"unfortunately the two speci- 
the types. Agassiz says (14) 
mens collected in Columbia River were deprived of their 
intestines and in one of them only were the pharyngeal 
bones with their teeth, preserved.” These teeth and bones, 
however, were not with the specimens when we received them, 
and doubtless were lost long ago. In every other way the 
specimens appear to agree with the original description. 
According to the original drawings"this fish caught 
with a hook at Dr. Whitman's, in the Walla "alle River. 
Same as the one taken in the mountains at Willamette Falls.” 
oketch by Drayton July 10, 1841. A painting, also by Dray- 
ton, June 14, 1841 says "caught by natives while fishing 
in the falis for salmon. This fish is never taken but in 
rapids or falls, by a net. Natives think a great deal of 
them. They enter into their superstitions in salmon fishing. 
es R= ge a 
(14) Amer. dour. Sci. Art. (2) vol. 19, 1855, p. 
lamet Falls and in “allawalla River. 
