CAHANGID.32. 
443 
wh ich is contained three times in the total length of the fish to tho 
base of the caudal fin. Anterior dorsal fin with 8 spines, the 
longest apparently exceeding in length any of the articulated dorsal 
ra J8 ; posterior dorsal with 23 to 25 articulated rays ; anal fin 
" ith 21 to 23 articulated rays. 
Most of the known specimens of this species are much distorted 
in various directions. 
Form. <)• Loc. Oligocene : Canton Glarus, Switzerland. 
P- 5944. Two imperfect specimens not much distorted, labelled 
Archceoides glaronensis by Wettstein. One distinct y 
exhibits 14 caudal vertebr®, and in the same specimen 
the two separate anal spines are conspicuous. 
1 Purchased, 1889. 
P- 1998, P. 3944, P. 4519. Two imperfect specimens, obliquely 
distorted, in counterpart : Engi, Glarus. 
Egerton 4' EnnisJciuen Colls. 
33960. Imperfect specimen showing vertebral column and 
and anal fins. Presented by Miss Elizabeth Wame, 
33976-77. Fractured and distorted small specimen, in counterpart. 
Presented by Miss Elizabeth Wame, 18o9. 
P- 449. Imperfect trunk probably of this species, labelled as in 
tended to be the type specimen of Pleionemus macrospon- 
dylus, Agassiz; Engi. Egerton Coll. 
P- 1991, P. 4521. Much-deepened trunk with median fins, in 
counterpart, resembling the deepened specimens ascribe 
to Archceoides macrurus by Wettstein, loc., cit. pi. vn. 
figs. 9, 1 1, and labelled “ Vomer priscus, Ag.,” by Egerton ; 
Engi. Egerton $ Enniskillen Colls. 
P- 1991 a, P. 1992, P. 4521 a. Two more imperfect similarly deep- 
ened specimens, one being in counterpart ; Engi. 
Egerton Sf Enniskillen Colls . 
36089. More imperfect deepened specimen, in counterpart, 1 bitten 
berg, Glarus. ***»* 1861 * 
The imperfect and distorted specimen described as follows, is not 
determinable : 
Archceus brevis, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. i. (1843-44), 
p. 50, pi. xxviii. fig. 2. Archceoides longus, A. Wettstein, 
Fischfauna Tertiaer. Glarnerschief. (1886), p. 86. 
Oligocene; Glarus. 
