584 Davis—On the Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon. 
The scales were thin; a very slight film over the surface where the body of 
the fish was laid, probably indicates their presence, but affords no information as 
to their character. 
Formation and Locality.—Hard chalk: Hakel, Mount Lebanon. 
£x coll—Robert Damon, Esq., Weymouth. 
Genus. Scombroclupea. Kwer. 
Scombroclupea macrophthalma, Picret and Humsert. 
Clupea macrophthalma. Hecker, 1843. ‘ Fische Syriens,” p. 242 (344), pl. xxmz., 
fig. 2. 
Scombroclupea macrophthalma. Picrer et Humpert, 1866. ‘‘ Nouv. rech. s. 1. 
Poissons fossiles du Mont Liban.,” p. 71, pl. 1x. 
Many examples of this species have been discovered since Messieurs Pictet and 
Humbert described those referred to above, but they afford no additional infor- 
mation to the comprehensive description of those learned savants. 
Formation and Locality.—Hard Chalk: Hakel, Mount Lebanon. 
Ex coll. Museum at Geneva (type); common. 
Genus. Leptosomus. VoN pER Marck. 
Leptosomus macrourus, Picter and HumBeErt. 
L. macrourus. Picrer et Humprrt, 1866. ‘‘ Nouv. rech. sur les poissons fossiles 
du Mont Liban.,” p. 75, pl. x., figs. 1-4. 
Formation and Locality—Soft chalk: Sahel Alma, Mount Lebanon. 
Ex coll_—Museum at Geneva (type). 
Leptosomus crassicostatus, P. & H. 
L. crassicostatus. Picrer et Humpert, 1866. ‘‘Nouv. rech. sur les poissons 
fossiles du Mont Liban.,” p. 76, pl. x., figs. 5-7. 
Formation and Locality—Soft chalk: Sahel Alma, Mount Lebanon. 
Ex coll. —Museum at Geneva (type). 
Genus. Chirocentrites. HE&cKEL. 
‘‘ Beitriige zur Kenntniss der fossilen Fische Cisterreichs,” p. 3. 
This genus was established, in 1849, by Heckel for the reception of fossil fishes 
from the chalk of Westphalia, which resembled the living genus Chirocentrus and the 
