STROMATEIDiE. CARANGIDJ2. 
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P- 5696. Fine large head ; Cuxton, Kent. The occipital portion of 
the cranium is lost, but the characteristic cheek-plates and 
jaws are well preserved, with the opercular apparatus, 
pectoral arch, and remains of five anterior vertebra;. The 
external bones are very finely rugose, and the operculum 
is almost completely covered with scales. Harford Coll. 
P- 6049. Smaller head, pectoral arch, and scales ; Chalk, Kent. 
Rugose scales are shown to cover the cheek. 
Presented by F. Harford , Esq., 1889. 
The following specimens seem to represent undetermined species 
of Berycojms : — 
25886. Imperfect small fish describe?} and figured as the type 
specimen of Stenostoma pulchella by F. Dixon, Geol. Sussex 
(1850), p. 373, pi. xxx vi. fig. 2; Chalk, Steyning, Sussex. 
The cheek-plates, maxilla, and supramaxilla seem to be 
those of Berycopsis, and the scales extend over the oper- 
culum. The dorsal fin-supports prove that the fin arose 
far forwards. The scales are small, rather thick and 
finely pectinated, not clearly serrated. Dixon Coll. 
R- 5686. Large head and trunk with finely pectinated scales ; 
Chalk, Cuxton, Kent. Harford Coll. 
The so-called Beryeopsis lindstromi (J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. 
^ublin Soc. [2] vol. iv. 1890, p.422, pi. xliv.), from the Upper 
Cretaceous of Limhamn, Scania, is based on a generically indeter- 
minable portion of trunk in the Royal State Museum, Stockholm. 
Family CARANGIDJL 
Snout not produced into an elongated rostrum ; dentition feeble 
or absent. Vertebra 10 in the abdominal, 14 (very' rarely 13 or 
15 ) in the caudal region ; the posterior abdominal centra usually 
■with downwardly bent transverse processes. Pelvic fins, when 
present, thoracic, with one spine and not more than five articulated 
ra ys 5 spinous portion of dorsal and anal fins much less extended 
than articulated portion. Scales small or absent; lateral line 
conspicuous, sometimes armoured with enlarged scales or bony 
scutes. 
