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daring fossilisation, and they cannot be satisfactorily distinguished 
from Clupea humilis : — 
36180. Specimen about 0'09 in length, much distorted anteriorly ; 
Unterkirchberg. Purchased, 1861. 
36580-81. Large and small specimen, still more distorted; Unter- 
kirchberg. Purchased, 1862. 
P. 1872, P. 3839. Two typical examples evidently deepened by 
crushing ; Unterkirchberg. Egerton Sf Enniskillen Colls. 
Clupea crenata (Heckel). 
I860. Meletta crenata, J. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., math.- 
naturw. Cl. vol. i. p. 233, pi. xxvi. 
1850 ■ Meletta longimana, J. J. Heckel, ibid. p. 231, pi. xxv. [Imperfect 
fish ; olim Heinrich Collection, Briinn.] 
1870. Meletta sahleri, II. E. Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Gdol. France, [2] 
vol. xxvii. p. 407, pi. ix. fig. 4. 
1870. Meletta parisoti, II. E. Sauvage, ibid. p. 403, pi. ix. fig. 0, pi. x. 
870. Meletta longimana, H. E. Sauvage, ibid. p. 408, pi. ix. fig. 5. 
8b0. Meletta crenata, 1). G. Kramberger, Jahrb. k.-k. geol. Reichs- 
anst. vol. xxx. p. 668, pi. vin. fig. 2. 
80. Meletta longimana = Meletta crenata, F. Bassani, Atti Soc. 
Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 81. 
1. Meletta heckeli, A. Rzehak, Abh.naturf. Verein. Briinn, vol. xix. 
PP. <0,72, pi. i. fig S- l_3 j 5. [Nearly complete fishes; Rzehak 
Collection, Briinn]. 
881. Meletta sahleri=? Melettina, A. Rzehak, ibid. p. 71. 
type. Scales, &c. ; olim Zeuschner Collection, Cracow. 
An imperfectly known small species of slender proportions, 
ead with opercular apparatus occupying about one third the length 
the fish to tho base of the caudal tin. Vertebral 40 to 42 in total 
lumber, the centra delicate. I’elvic fins slightly behind origin of 
orsal, which comprises 15 or 16 rays and arises in advance of the 
'Biddle ot the back ; anal fin low and extended. 
o/»i. <jj* /.oc. Lower Miocene (or Oligocene) : Austria, Germany, 
a id France. 
7041. Five imperfect specimens : Septarien Thon, Florsheim, 
Rhein Hessen. Purchased, 1893. 
Clupea numidica (Sauvage). 
8 .>9-44. Alosa elongata, L. Agassiz ( non Bennett, 1830), Poiss. Foss. 
, vo1 - v - pt. ii. p. 113, pi. lxiv. [Imperfect fish.] 
" Mosa crassa, II. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. G6ol. vol. iv. art. no. 1, 
