TlIK ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY 



[SEVENTFi SERIRfcJ.] 

 No. 28. APRIL 1900. 



XLIV. — Evidence of att Extinct Eel (Urenchely.s an^licus, 

 sp. n.) from the English C/ialk. liy A. Smith WOOD- 

 WARD, F.L.S. 



[Plate IX. figs. 1, Irt.] 



Thiuteen years ae^o the late Mr, James W. Davis de.'^cribed 

 some imperfect fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Mount 

 Lebanon wliich he supposed to represent two extinct species 

 of eels named respectively Anguilla saheUaJmce and A. hakel- 

 ensi.'i, in allusion to the localities where the specimens were 

 found*. In 1897 Mr. liaymond Storms pointed out f that 

 the first of these species could not be an Apodal fish of any 

 kind, while the second was so imperfectly described and 

 figured that Davis's generic determination at least was not 

 justified. Quite lately an examination of the original sj)eci- 

 mens in the British ^luseum has determined their true 

 relationships. It appears that the so-called Anguilla sahel- 

 ahna is really an extinct member of the .Notacanthidje, 



• J. \V. Davis, 'Tilt' Fossil Fishes of the C'balk of Mount Lebanon in 

 Syria." Tran.s. Itov. Dublin Soc. [2] vol. iii. (1H87), pp. O-'o, 020, pi. xx. 

 figs. 2, .'5. 



t R. Storms, " Premiere Note sur les Poia^ons "NVemmeliens (Eoceno 

 sup^rieiir) de la IV-lgique,'' liull. Soc. Helgo GiSol. vol. x. (I'^'J"), M^m. 

 p. 23i». 



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