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admirably preserved, and has become familiar to students through the published 

 figure given in von Zittel's Handbuch; hence it is only necessary to record the 

 fact that the counter-impression, which formed part of the Bayet Collection, is 

 now to be seen on exhibition in the Carnegie Museum. Its sex is denoted by the 

 pair of claspers. 



The caudal portion of another large ray, probably referable to this species, is 

 cataloged under the number 4409, and consists of about one hundred vertebrae 

 retained in their natural position, together with portions of the endoskeletal 

 cartilage, belonging apparently to the pelvic girdle. Neither dorsal nor caudal 

 fins are preserved in this specimen, and only the posterior dorsal is shown in the 

 counterpart of the Munich example. 



Genus Belemnobatis Thiolliere. 

 9. Belemnobatis sismondae Thiolliere. (Plate LXVII, fig. 1.) 



(For synonymy c/. A. S. Woodward, Cat. Foss. Fishes Brit. Mus., Pt. I, p. 84.) 



This species occurs typically in the Upper Jurassic of Cerin, France, and has 

 not been previously reported from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria. A single 

 specimen from the latter locality, however, to be seen on exhibition in the Carnegie 

 Museum (Cat. No. 4408), and remarkable for its perfect state of preservation, 

 should undoubtedly be placed here. It measures 58 cm. in total length. The 

 tail is spineless, and shows no indication of dorsal or caudal fins. The structure 

 of the skull and nearly all of the endoskeletal parts are admirably displayed. 



the upper floor of the remise where they were stored, and that work should cease for the day. Two of 

 his overzealous assistants disobeyed, and, going up to the loft, attempted in the darkness to bring down 

 this heavy and almost priceless slab. Descending the stairs in the dim light they stumbled and came 

 rolling down the steps with their burden, which fell, and was shattered into scores of fragments upon the 

 pavement of the lower court. The packers were instantly ordered from the spot, and sent away for the 

 night. By the light of a lantern the writer, assisted by Dr. Eastman, working until nearly midnight, 

 succeeded in gathering up the fragments, fitted them together, and then laying a large sheet of trans- 

 parent paper over them made a careful tracing of their outlines, designating each piece by a number 

 corresponding to numbers placed upon the tracing. On the following morning these pieces were carefully 

 packed in cotton and together with the tracing were brought to America. With the outline before us, 

 the writer, assisted by Mr. 0. A. Peterson, succeeded in adjusting each bit to its place, and no one un- 

 acquainted with the fact, would imagine that at one time this noble specimen had lain a mass of com- 

 minuted fragments upon the pavement of a Belgian court-yard. It is in every way as good as if it had 

 not been "smashed into smithereens." W. J. Holland. 



