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longer than the abdomen ; there is no trace of pectoral fins, 

 and the ventral are very small ; the dorsal fin is very low, and 

 the anal commences considerably beyond the end of the dorsal, 

 leaving a large abdominal cavity ; the caudal is like that of the 

 preceding species. 



From Mellili, near Syracuse, M. de Blainville has seen the 

 impression of a fish, which he is inclined to refer to the genus 

 Cyprinus. To the same he is also inclined to attribute a 

 species discovered at Scapezzano, a locality which we have 

 already pointed out. Near Aix, in Provence, the following 

 species appear to have been discovered : Mugil cephalus^ Perca 

 minuta, De Blain.; Cyprinus squamosseus, De Blain. These 

 are all ascertained by M. de Blainville, and are fresh-water 

 fish; but Darlac has cited others, such as Mullus barbatus, 

 Coryphcsna hippurus, Anarrhycas lupus, many species of 

 Gadus, and Trigla cataphrada, which M. de Blainville sup- 

 poses to be the same with his Cyprinus squamosseus. 



In the celebrated plaster quarries of Montmartre, &c., are 

 enumerated the following; — Sparus? Perca? (it is not decided 

 to which of these the impression, which is very imperfect, is 

 referable;) Amia ignota, De Blain.; Mugil, Lacepede; Poeci- 

 lia Lancetherii, De Blain.; Anormurus macrolepidotus, De 

 Blain. ; Salmo, Cuvier ; Perca, De Blain. ; Cyprinodon, Cuv. ; 

 Cyprinus minutuSyDe Blain.; and Cyprinus squamosseus? De 

 Blain. 



Among the ichthyolites of CEningen, the following species 

 are reckoned ; — Esox lucius^ Knorr ; Cyjjrinus jeses, Scheuz. ; 

 Capita? Scheuz.; Cyprinus bipunctatus, and many others 

 which are not clearly ascertained. 



We shall terminate this account of fossil fish with a brief 

 notice of such remains of this class as are to be found scat- 

 tered in almost all countries, in strata of various kinds, and 

 which consist, for the most part, of vertebrae and teeth. 



In almost all the ancient works on oryctology, the name of 

 ichthyospondyles fs given to the vertebrae of different species of 



