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  ACTINOPTERYGII. 
  

  

  1867. 
  Cyclurus 
  valenciennesii, 
  P. 
  Gervais, 
  Zool. 
  et 
  Pal. 
  Gen. 
  p. 
  198, 
  

  

  pi. 
  xli. 
  figs. 
  2, 
  3. 
  

   1874. 
  Cyclurus 
  valenciennesi, 
  H. 
  E. 
  Sauvage, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  

  

  Toulouse, 
  vol. 
  viii. 
  p. 
  181, 
  pi. 
  i. 
  fig. 
  1. 
  

  

  Type. 
  Fish 
  wanting 
  anterior 
  abdominal 
  region 
  ; 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  so-called 
  genus 
  Cyclurus, 
  attaining 
  a 
  

   length 
  of 
  about 
  045. 
  Length 
  of 
  head 
  with 
  opercular 
  apparatus 
  

   greater 
  than 
  the 
  distance 
  between 
  the 
  paired 
  fins 
  and 
  contained 
  

   about 
  four 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  fish 
  ; 
  maximum 
  depth 
  of 
  

   trunk 
  contained 
  somewhat 
  more 
  than 
  five 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  length. 
  

   Ribs 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  neural 
  arches. 
  Anal 
  fin 
  with 
  12 
  rays. 
  

  

  Form. 
  <$f 
  Log. 
  Lower 
  Miocene 
  : 
  France. 
  

  

  P. 
  446. 
  Type 
  specimen, 
  being 
  the 
  much-fractured 
  hinder 
  two-thirds 
  

   of 
  a 
  fish 
  ; 
  in 
  Lignite, 
  Menat, 
  Puy-de-D6me. 
  

  

  Egerton 
  Coll. 
  

  

  27736. 
  Three 
  fragments 
  of 
  smaller 
  fishes, 
  one 
  displaying 
  the 
  long 
  

   rays 
  of 
  the 
  pelvic 
  and 
  anal 
  fins 
  ; 
  Menat. 
  Croizet 
  Coll. 
  

  

  Amia 
  macrocephala 
  (Reuss). 
  

  

  1844. 
  Cyclurus 
  macrocephalus, 
  A. 
  E. 
  Reuss, 
  Geogn. 
  Skizzen 
  aus 
  

  

  Bohmen, 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  267. 
  

   1848. 
  Cyclurus 
  macrocephalus, 
  H. 
  von 
  Meyer, 
  Neues 
  Jahrb. 
  p. 
  430. 
  

   1851. 
  Cyclurus 
  macrocephalus, 
  H. 
  von 
  Meyer, 
  Palaeontogr. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  61, 
  

  

  pi. 
  viii. 
  figs. 
  5, 
  6, 
  pi. 
  ix. 
  figs. 
  1-3. 
  

   1851. 
  Amia, 
  J. 
  J. 
  Heckel, 
  Sitzungsb. 
  k. 
  Akad. 
  Wiss., 
  math.-naturw. 
  

  

  01. 
  vol. 
  vi. 
  p. 
  223. 
  

  

  Type. 
  Imperfect 
  fishes 
  ; 
  Royal 
  Bohemian 
  Museum, 
  Prague. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  species 
  attaining 
  a 
  length 
  of 
  about 
  0*25. 
  Length 
  of 
  

   head 
  with 
  opercular 
  apparatus 
  much 
  greater 
  than 
  the 
  distance 
  

   between 
  the 
  paired 
  fins 
  and 
  contained 
  three- 
  and-a-half 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  

   total 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  fish 
  ; 
  maximum 
  depth 
  of 
  trunk 
  contained 
  some- 
  

   what 
  more 
  than 
  five 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  length. 
  Ribs 
  not 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  neural 
  arches. 
  Anal 
  fin 
  with 
  10-12 
  rays, 
  dorsal 
  fin 
  with 
  

   about 
  35 
  rays. 
  Scales 
  radiately 
  striated. 
  

  

  Form. 
  Sf 
  Loc. 
  Lower 
  Miocene 
  : 
  Xutschlin, 
  Bohemia. 
  

  

  Not 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  Collection. 
  

  

  Amia 
  ignota, 
  Blainville. 
  

   1807. 
  Description 
  by 
  B. 
  G. 
  de 
  Lac£pede, 
  Ann. 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  x. 
  p. 
  234. 
  

   1818. 
  Amia 
  ignota, 
  H. 
  D. 
  de 
  Blainville, 
  Nouv. 
  Diet. 
  d'Hist. 
  Nat. 
  

  

  vol. 
  xxvii. 
  p. 
  373. 
  

   1822. 
  " 
  Amia 
  a 
  deux 
  nageoires," 
  G. 
  Cuvier, 
  Oss. 
  Foss. 
  new 
  ed. 
  vol. 
  iii. 
  

  

  p. 
  342, 
  pi. 
  lxxvi. 
  fig. 
  13. 
  

  

  