THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 23. NOVEMBER 1899. 



XXXIII. — Additional Notes on some Type Specimens of Creta- 

 ceous Fislies from Mount Lebanon in the Edinburgh Museum 

 of Science and Art. By A. Smith Woodward, F.L.S. 



Since the publication of a series of notes on some tjpe 

 specimens of Cretaceous fislies in the Edinburgh Museum last 

 November (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. ii. pp. 405— 

 414) Dr. Traquair has kindly lent me the remaining 

 specimens, which seem to need fui'ther examination and 

 description. To these the following notes relate. 



1. Pseudoheryx longispina, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin 

 Soc. [2] vol. iii. (1887), p. 511, pi. xxv. fig. 2. [^^Nema- 

 tonotus Bottce, Pict. & Humb., sp.] 



The so-called " unique specimen " described as the type of 

 Pseudoheryx longispina is distorted in the abdominal region, 

 as indicated by the position of the dorsal and pelvic fins with 

 reference to the margin of the squamation. The length of 

 the head with opercular apparatus seems to have been approxi- 

 mately equal to the maximum depth of the trunk and con- 

 tained twice in the length from the pectoral arch to the base 

 of the caudal fin. The head is remarkably short and deep, 

 and a rod-shaped fragment in the position of the upper iaw 

 might be part of a Scopeloid or Acanthopterygian premaxilla. 

 Allowing for those hidden by the opercular apparatus, there 

 must have been about thirty vertebree, and at least sixteen of 

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