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briata, which species, however, have iioies of larger dimensions. 

 Also the posterior l)order of the scales of these species is more 

 ragged. Tlie first transversal groove, which is not interrupted, is 

 visible in all scales of my specimen, the following interrupted ones 

 (about three in number) are speciality developed on the caudal scales. 

 For the rest the scales are practically smooth: only here and there 

 some fine parallel stripes are visible. 



As might be expected, keeled dorsal scutes are absent. The ventral 

 ones are partly very well preserved, but ail are dislocated and 

 dispersed, so that their number cannot be made out. Tiie dorsal 

 prolongations of the ventral scutes or spines are beautifully con- 

 spicuous here and there. They seem to be shorter than in recent 

 species. Possibly they are broken. 



C {S) brouweri sliows the greatest resemblance to C. fimbriata 

 and perforata, but differs in the sculpture of the opercles and in 

 minor details of the scales. 



The determination of the second fossil is less certain. It consists 

 of the posterior part of a fish, which undoubtedly belongs to the 

 Perciformes. The greater part of the caudal, all caudal vertebrae, 

 some of the rib-bearing trunk-vertebrae, all plerygophores of the 

 anal as well as those of the hinderpart of the dorsal are beautifully 

 preserved in situ. The anal is broken. 



The soft portion of the dorsal is intact, but oidy some spines of 



S^^S. 





Clupea (Sardinella) brouweri n. sp. XI- 



the precedent part are preserved. The anterior part of the fish is 

 wanting. The ventrals and part of the [)elvic have been spared. 

 Nothing else of the shoulder-girdle remains than the caudal part 

 of the postcleithrnm. The vertebrae of the trunk bear long parapo- 



