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llemitilapia oxi/rhi/nchus. 

 D. XVI 10-11. A. Ill 9. Sq. 36 n'- Lat. 1. 22/15. 



Depth of body 2^ times in total length, length of head 3. 

 Snout pointed, witli concave profile, 1-^ to twice as long as 

 the eye, the diameter of which is 4 to nearly 5 times in 

 length of head ; maxillary extending to between nostril and 

 eye; 4 series of scales on the cheek ; 12 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arcii. Last dorsal spine longest, | length of 

 head ; longest dorsal rays nearly as long as head. Scales 

 with very finely denticulate border. 



Total length 180 millini. 



Two specimens, in poor condition. 



BIBLIOGllAPHICAL NOTICES. 



PaIcemtolo[/ia Lidicct. Series XVI. Vol. I. Part 3. Fauna of the 

 Uj^per Cretaceous (MaestricJitian) Beds of the Mari Hills. By 

 Fkitz Noetling, Ph.D., PalfiGontologist, Geol. Surv. India. Folio. 

 79 pages: plates i.-xxiii. Calcutta: Geol. Survey Office. 

 London : Kegan Paul & Co. 1897. 



It is believed that this nceount of the species here described and 

 figured has a special interest in throwing some liglit on the geo- 

 graphical distribution of tlic Up]icr Cretaceous fauna. The fossils 

 of this formation collected in Baluchistan (77 in number) afpord 06 

 determinable species, of which 42 are new, and 24 are identified 

 with forms previously described. Of these last, tliere are seven 

 which hitherto are only known to occur in Indian or Central-Asian 

 beds, viz. : — 



1. CartMta Beaumonti, d'Arch. cf- Haime (Sind); vnr. baluchistau- 



ensis, Noetl. 



2. Cardita subcoiiiplanata, d'Arch. ^- Haime. Sind. 



3. Radiolites subdilatata, Muschkelojf. lu strata of Senonian age in 



Tui-kestan. 



4. Corbula harpa, d'Arch. cf Haime. Sind. 



5. Ovula expansa, d'Arch. ^- Haime. Sind. 



6. Volutilithes latisepta, Stoliczka. In the Ariyahir strata of Soutlicrn 



India. 



7. Nautilus subfleuriausiaiuis, d'Arch. c^- Haime. Sind. 



There remain, therefore, 17 species, or 2(3 per cent, of the total 

 number, which the Baluchistan Upper Cretaceous Beds have in 

 common with the Cretaceous Beds of Europe ; and it is these we 

 have cliietly to consider in looking for information as to the age and 

 correlation uf the J/ernipneustes beds (as they may be conveniently 



