CATALOG OF FOSSIL FISHES IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 365 
differentiating every one of its members from the Perciformes, with which they 
are closely connected, and from which they hardly deserve to be separated. The 
geological range of this division is from the Lower Eocene to the present day. 
Family Caranaipm (Pompanos, etc.). 
Genus SemiopHorus Agassiz. 
14. Semiophorus velifer (Volta). (Plate XCVI, fig. 1.) 
1796. Kurtus velifer, G. S. Volta, Ittiolit. Veronese, p. XXVII, pl. VI, figs. 1, 2 
(non fig. 3). 
1818. Chetodon velifer, H. D. de Blainville, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XX VII, 
p. 355. 
1835. Semiophorus velifer, L. Agassiz, Neues Jahrb., p. 301 (name only). 
1838-42. Semiophorus velifer, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., Vol. IV, pp. 14, 219, pl. 
XXXVIIa. 
1859. Semiophorus velifer, A. G. Massalongo, Specimen Photogr. Anim. Foss. 
Agr. Veron., p. 27, pl. VI. 
1876. Semiophorus velifer, F. Bassani, Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat., Vol. 
TT. L79s 
(?) 1878. Semiophorus gigas, A. de Zigno, Mem. R. Instit. Veneto, Vol. XX, ier 
488, pl. XV. 
1901. Semiophorus velifer (Volta), Brit. Mus. Cat. Fossil Fishes, Part IV, p. 430. 
Type.—Nearly complete fish; Paris Museum of Natural History. 
One fine specimen and two imperfect ones, partially restored, are preserved 
in the British Museum of Natural History. Two excellent examples, one of them 
a hypotype, having been figured by Massalongo, are contained in the Bayet Col- 
lection of the Carnegie Museum. An illustration is given of the original of Massa- 
longo’s figure in the accompanying plate. This bears the catalog No. 4467, and 
the second specimen that of No. 4466. 
Genus Puatax Cuvier. 
15. Platax subvespertilio (Blainville). 
This large and handsome species is not represented in the British Museum. 
The type and several other specimens are preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural 
History, others at Verona and elsewhere in Italy. A cast of an extraordinarily 
perfect example belonging to the University of Bologna (olim Zigno Coll.) was 
presented to the Carnegie Museum a few years ago through Senator G. Cappellini, 
