ZORORHOMBUS 41 



in regard to the anal fin. The vertebrae are very large and strong for a 

 flounder, deeper than long, with a rough surface but not grooved; the 

 neural and haemal spines are very long and strong; the interneurals very 

 much shorter and weaker than in ZORORHOMBUS. 



Family BROTULID^. 



24. Eclipes veternus Jordan and Gilbert. 

 ( MERRIAMINA ECTENES Jordan and Gilbert.) 



A specimen (No. 190) 4 inches long, the head fairly preserved, snout 

 pointed; jaws oblique, straight, the lower probably the longer; eye large, 

 as long as snout, 3^ in head, crossed by a narrow process, the inter- 

 orbital shelf ; maxillary more than half head, reaching beyond the mid- 

 dle of eye ; bones of head entire ; head almost exactly that of the 

 specimen figured by us as ECLIPES VETERNUS; vertebrae about 34, with 

 a few lost, probably about 40 in all, rather slender, hour-glass shaped, those 

 posteriorly more elongate and smaller, the anterior rather strong with 

 strong neural and haemal spines : pectorals placed high, their tips broken ; 

 dorsal beginning not far behind pectorals, the rays all soft and close set, 

 the fin highest posteriorly where its rays are more than half head ; caudal 

 and last vertebrae lost; a trace of ventrals before pectoral; anal similar 

 to dorsal, but only half as long, the last rays almost equally high. 



The body of this fish agrees fully with our specimens of MERRIAMINA 

 ECTENES, the head is equally evidently that of ECLIPES VETERNUS, the two 

 forms, which at first seemed wholly unlike, being apparently one and the 

 same species. What appeared in ECLIPES to be the large forked caudal is 

 really the elevated posterior rays of the dorsal and anal fins, beyond which 

 the vertebrae plainly extend in No. 190, ending in the type (No. XIII) of 

 MERRIAMINA, with a narrow, truncate caudal fin. The species belongs 

 apparently to the BROTULID^E. Unfortunately the name ECLIPES has 

 page priority over MERRIAMINA. 



A small example with more perfect head (No. 40), but lacking most 

 of the body, shows the head long, with oblique gape and long, straight 

 jaws, the maxillary 1% in head. 



No. 54 is another imperfect specimen. 



Family (uncertain) 



Atkinsonella strigilis Jordan, new genus and species 

 A fossil (No. 511) was provisionally referred by us to LOMPOCHITES 

 HOPKINSI- Renewed examination, however, shows its distinctness, the 

 body being covered with small scales of very peculiar form, a character 



