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actinoftervoii. 
part of the mandible, and the pectoral, pelvic, and frag- 
mentary dorsal fins ; English Chalk. Bowerbank toll. 
P. 1812 . Fragmentary head, probably of the same species ; Lower 
Chalk, Dorking. Egerton Coll. 
The so-called Clupea curta (J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. 
[2] vol. iii. 1887, p. 579, pi. xxxiii. fig. 5) is based on a fragment 
probably of Osmeroides from the Upper Cretaceous of Hakel, 
Mt. Lebanon. The type specimen is in the Edinburgh Museum of 
Science and Art (A. S. Woodward, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] vol. »• 
1898, p. 409). 
Gencrically and specifically indeterminable scales have also been 
described under the following names : — 
Osmeroides belgicus, T. C. Winkler, Archiv Mus. Teyler, vol. i v - 
(18/0), p. 3, pi. i. fig. 1, — Lower Eocene (Heersian) > 
Lirabourg, Belgium. 
Osmeroides divaricatus, H. B. Geinitz, Denkschr. Gos. fiir Naturk- 
&c. Dresden z. Feier 50 jiihr. Bestehens, 1868, p. 42, P 1 - il- 
figs. 18-22 ; A. Fritsch, Rept. u. Fische bbhm. Kreideform- 
(1878), p. 34, fig. 58. — Turonian ; Saxony and Bohemia- 
Osmeroides pectinolepis, G. D. Romanovskv, Material. Geol. Turke- 
stansk. Kraya [in Russian], pt. iii. (1890), p. 122, pi- * vl1- 
fig- 5. Cretaceous ; Turkestan. 
Genus ELOPS, Linnceus. 
[Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1766, p. 518.] 
Trunk somewhat laterally compressed, abdomen flattened. P ar! 
8 a ^ )0IlC8 contact in the median lino ; mandible a little p roD1 
nent , two supramaxillary bones ; margin of the jaws, the voinc 
parasphenoid, palatine, and pterygoid bones, and the tongue, wit 
c usters of minute pointed teeth. Gill-rakers long and Blende 1 
operculum simple ; branchiostegal rays about 24 to 30 in nuinbe 
r llu d pelvic fins each with an enlarged and elongated sca 
0 a.c, dorsal fin opposite or nearly opposite the pelvic p 911 
anal smaller than the dorsal fin ; caudal fin deeply forked ; no b> 
,■ ' obsessively elongated. Exposed portions of canal of l atc>r 
'imp e, never branching; scales usually ornamented 
delicate radiating ridges. 
A figure of the skeleton of Elops is given by Agassiz, Poiss. i’° E 
V9I. v. pi. G. fig. 1. 6 J 6 
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