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  ACTINOPTERYGJI. 
  

  

  and, 
  as 
  remarked 
  by 
  Agassiz, 
  all 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  quite 
  

   smooth, 
  without 
  either 
  serrations 
  or 
  notches. 
  

  

  Egerton 
  Coll. 
  

  

  37036. 
  Small 
  specimen, 
  about 
  0-18 
  in 
  length, 
  with 
  imperfect 
  head, 
  

   but 
  displaying 
  the 
  squamation 
  and 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  fins, 
  

   with 
  remains 
  of 
  the 
  caudal 
  and 
  paired 
  fins 
  ; 
  Solenhofen. 
  

   Each 
  of 
  the 
  scales 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  line 
  exhibits 
  a 
  single 
  

   notch, 
  but 
  all 
  the 
  other 
  scales 
  are 
  entirely 
  smooth. 
  The 
  

   perforated 
  series 
  of 
  scales 
  indicating 
  a 
  second 
  and 
  superior 
  

   lateral 
  line 
  between 
  the 
  occiput 
  and 
  dorsal 
  fin 
  is 
  con- 
  

   spicuous. 
  Haberlein 
  Coll. 
  

  

  Lepidotus 
  subovatus 
  (Miinster). 
  

  

  1842. 
  Scrobodus 
  subovatus, 
  G. 
  von 
  Miinster, 
  Neues 
  Jahrb. 
  p. 
  37, 
  and 
  

  

  Beitr. 
  Petrefakt. 
  pt. 
  v. 
  p. 
  55, 
  pi. 
  i. 
  fig. 
  4. 
  

   1844. 
  Scrobodus 
  subovatus, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  203. 
  

   1863. 
  Sc?'obodus 
  subovatus 
  = 
  aberrant 
  Lepidotus, 
  A. 
  Wagner, 
  Abh. 
  k. 
  

  

  bay. 
  Akad. 
  Wiss., 
  math.-phys. 
  CI. 
  vol. 
  ix. 
  p. 
  639. 
  

  

  Type. 
  Nearly 
  complete 
  fish 
  ; 
  Palaaontological 
  Museum, 
  Munich. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  so-called 
  genus 
  Scrobodus, 
  closely 
  resem- 
  

   bling 
  Lepidotus 
  notopterus 
  in 
  form 
  and 
  proportions, 
  but 
  much 
  

   smaller, 
  and 
  described 
  as 
  differing 
  from 
  all 
  known 
  species 
  of 
  

   Lepidotus 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  indentation 
  of 
  the 
  tritoral 
  teeth. 
  

  

  Form. 
  Sf 
  Loc. 
  Lower 
  Kimmeridgian 
  (Lithographic 
  Stone) 
  : 
  Bavaria. 
  

  

  37999. 
  Plaster 
  cast 
  of 
  type 
  specimen; 
  Solenhofen. 
  

  

  Purchased, 
  1864. 
  

  

  Lepidotus 
  minor, 
  Agassiz. 
  

  

  1833-37. 
  Lepidotus 
  minor, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  i. 
  pp. 
  9, 
  

  

  260, 
  pi. 
  xxxiv. 
  {non 
  pi. 
  xxix. 
  c. 
  fig. 
  12). 
  

   1887. 
  Lepidotus 
  minor, 
  W. 
  Branco, 
  Abh. 
  geol. 
  Specialk. 
  Preussen 
  u. 
  

  

  Thiiring. 
  Staaten, 
  vol. 
  vii. 
  p. 
  363, 
  pi. 
  vi. 
  fig. 
  2 
  (? 
  non 
  p. 
  366, 
  pi. 
  vi. 
  

  

  fig. 
  1). 
  

   893. 
  Lepidotus 
  minor, 
  A. 
  S. 
  Woodward, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  p. 
  562, 
  

  

  pi. 
  xlix. 
  fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Type. 
  Nearly 
  complete 
  fish 
  ; 
  School 
  of 
  Mines, 
  Paris. 
  

  

  A 
  species 
  attaining 
  a 
  length 
  of 
  about 
  0*4. 
  Length 
  of 
  head 
  with 
  

   opercular 
  apparatus 
  somewhat 
  exceeding 
  two-thirds 
  the 
  maximum 
  

   depth 
  of 
  the 
  trunk, 
  and 
  contained 
  nearly 
  five 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  fish. 
  Operculum 
  somewhat 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  deep 
  

   as 
  its 
  maximum 
  breadth, 
  which 
  is 
  contained 
  nearly 
  three 
  times 
  in 
  

   the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  frontal 
  profile 
  steep 
  and 
  snout 
  acute. 
  

   External 
  bones 
  prominently 
  and 
  coarsely 
  tuberculated 
  ; 
  parietal 
  

  

  