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21. Pholidophorus similis A. S. Woodward. (PI. LVI, fig. 1). 

 1895. Pholidophorus similis A. S. Woodward. 



Cat. Foss. Fishes Brit. Mus., Pt. Ill, p. 470, pi. XIII, fig. 2. 



Type. — Nearly complete fish; British Museum. 



A species attaining a length of about 20 cm. " Length of head with opercular 

 apparatus nearly equalling the maximum depth of the trunk, which is contained 

 from four-and-a-half to five times in the total length of the fish. Head and oper- 

 cular bones very finely rugose. Fin-rays stout and smooth. Pelvic fins arising 

 far in advance of the middle point of the trunk, and the dorsal fin opposed 

 to them. Scales large, ornamented with fine oblique striations, more or less 

 radiating, and terminating at the hinder margin in denticulations; several series of 

 flank-scales deeper than broad; the orifices of the lateral line inconspicuous." (A. 

 S. Woodward, I. c, Pt. Ill, p. 470). 



The undermentioned examples are representative of this species in the col- 

 lections of the Carnegie Museum. Car. Mus. Cat., Nos. 4063, 4069, 4081, 4082, 

 4095, 4326, 4661, 4667. 



22. Pholidophorus ovatus Wagner. 



1863. Pholidophorus ovatus A. Wagner. 



Abh. Bay. Akad., Wiss., math.-phys. CI., Vol. IX, p. 666. 

 1895. Pholidophorus ovatus A. S. Woodward. 



Cat. Foss. Fishes Brit. Mus., Pt. Ill, p. 471. 



" Type. — Fish with imperfect median fins; Paleontological Museum, Munich. 



A robust species attaining a length of about 18 cm., not yet clearly distinguished 

 from P. granulatus, but perhaps with a somewhat less deepened trunk. Fin-rays 

 smooth and stout ; fulcra conspicuous. Fins and scales as in the preceding species." 

 (A. S. Woodward, I. c, Pt. Ill, p. 471). 



A single, moderate-sized, incompletely preserved example, cataloged as No. 

 4073, and probably referable to this species, is contained in the Bayet Collection. 



Genus Pleuropholis Egerton. 

 " Trunk elongate-fusiform, and upper caudal lobe conspicuous. External bones 

 smooth or delicately ornamented with rugae and tuberculations; maxilla more or 

 less arched and the oval margin convex; teeth minute. Vertebral centra annular. 

 Fulcra present on aU the fins. Pelvic fins well developed, but smaller than the 

 pectorals; dorsal and anal fins longer than deep, opposite. Scales thick and 

 moderately overlapping; those of the middle of the flank excessively deepened, 

 covering nearly the whole of it, each strengthened within by a broad rib and exhibit- 



