No. 442.] FOSSIL FISHES OF MOUNT LEBANON. 693 



condition appears to be much like that found in the tail of 

 Amia, and the writer explains it in the same way. The species 

 is called Enchelion montium, the type of the new family 

 Encheliidae. 



The remaining fishes are regarded as belonging to the order 

 Actinopterygii, or Percomorpha. In these the dorsal and anal 

 fins are usually wholly or partly spinous and the ventral tins are 

 brought forward to beneath the pectorals. The order contains 

 the most highly developed fishes. The Berycida\ yet represented 

 by some marine and mostly deep-sea forms, appear to have been 

 very abundant during the I'pper Cretaceous. A single species 

 is known from Hakel, two from Hajula, and a dozen from Sahel 

 Alma. These data appear to argue that the latter locality is at 

 a higher level than either of the others. A new species of 

 Pycnosterinx, P. Icvispinosus, is described by the author from 

 Hajula. It is a small, compressed species, about an inch and a 

 half in length, deeper than long, and with a steep front. 



Three species of the genus ( hnosoma are referred provisionally 

 by Woodward to the Stromateidae, a family represented on our 

 Atlantic coast by the butter-fishes and harvest-fishes. The 



