Cretaceous Fishes from Mount Lebanon. 411 



upon expanded pelvic bones within the anterior quarter of the 

 space between tlie pectoral and caudal fins, and that of tlie 

 right side is shown to comprise 7 rays, of which the anterior 

 two are stoutest and very closely articulated distally, while 

 the others are both divided and articulated distally. The 

 dorsal fin arises opposite a point midway between the paired 

 fins, and is borne by very large triangular supports, which 

 expand downwards as they approach the vertebral column ; 

 most of the rays are shown to be both divided and articulated 

 distally, but they are too much crushed for precise counting, 

 although probably about twelve in number as mentioned by 

 Davis. Tlie anal fin is destroyed and the caudal is only 

 imperfectly preserved. The rays of the latter, however, are 

 clearly divided and articulated distally, and the fin must have 

 been forked. There seem to be traces of cycloidal scales 

 over part of the fossil, but their precise characters are not 

 distinguishable. 



This fish is excluded from EngrauJis by the proportions of 

 the mouth, and both from Engraulis and from the family 

 Clupeidffi by the characters of the abdominal vertebrae. It 

 has been referred to the genus Exocoetoides of Davis by 

 Kramberger *; but it is distinctly separated from the latter 

 by its more numerous vertebra?, its divided median fin- rays, 

 and its forked tail. It seems to me to belong most probably 

 to the genus TeleiJiolis of W. von der Marck f, with which it 

 agrees in every essential character that can be compared ; 

 but unfortunately the jaws and dermal armature are not clear 

 in tiie unique specimen of the Lebanon fish, and its generic 

 determination thus remains provisional. One of the West- 

 phalian type specimens of Telepholis in the Miinster Academy 

 exhibits a characteristically Scopeloid upper jaw. Its cycloidal 

 dorsal scales, each with a median tubercle^ have already been 

 noticed by von der Marck. 



7. Engraulis tenuis, J. W. Davis, he. cit. p. 635, pi. xxx. 

 fig. 5. \_^ Prionolepis cataphr actus. ~\ 



The second specimen referred by Davis to the so-called 

 Engraulis tenuis without description, is the counterpart of a 

 small example of Prionolepis (or Aspidopleurus) in the 

 British Museum (no. P. 4871), which seems to be an imma- 

 ture individual of P. cataphractus. Though not indicated iu 

 the drawing, the complete series of characteristic lateral scutes 

 is well shown in impression, while the proportions and 



* Gorgauovic Kramberger, " De Piscibus Fossilibus," Djela Jugoslav. 

 Akad. xvi. (1895), p. 39. 



t ralseontogi-. vol. xv. (1868), p. 276. 



