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ACTINOPTERYGII. 
Lepidopus brevicauda (vom Rath). 
1869. Anenchelum brevicauda, G. vom Rath, Zeitschr. deuttch. geol. 
Ges. vol. xi. p. 124, pi. v. fig. 1. 
1886. Lepidopus brevicauda, A. Wettstein, Fischfauna Tertiaer. Glar- 
nerschief. (Denkschr. Schweiz. Palaeont. Ges. vol. xiii.), p. 43, 
pi. v. figs. 2, 7, 8, pi. vi. fig. 4. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; University Geological Museum, Bonn. 
A small species attaining a length of about 0'5. Maximum 
depth of trunk contained about fifteen times in length of vertebral 
column. Teeth apparently more numerous than in L. glarisianus. 
Vertebrae about 36 in the abdominal, 53 in the caudal region. 
Length of longest pectoral fin-rays not exceeding depth of trunk ; 
dorsal and anal fins low. 
Form. Sf Loc. Oligocene : Canton Glarus, Switzerland. 
Not represented in the Collection. 
Lepidopus albyi, Sauvage. 
1870. Lepidopus albyi, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. [6] vol. xiv. 
art. no. 7, p. 6. 
1873. Lepidopus albyi, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Gdol. vol. iv. 
art. no. 1, p. 123, fig. 26. 
Type. Imperfect fish. 
A small species, apparently not more than 0-3 in length. Length 
of head with opercular apparatus contained about seven times, 
maximum depth of trunk about sixteen times in total length of fish. 
Vertebrae 35 in the abdominal, 58 in the caudal region. Pectoral 
fins small. 
Form. $ Loc. Upper Miocene : Licata, Sicily. 
P. 1705. Fragmentary remains of head and abdominal region. 
Egerton Coll- 
The following extinct species have also been described, but there 
are no examples in the Collection : — 
Lepidopus anc/uis, H. E. Sanvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. [5J vol. xiv. 
(1870), art. no. 7, p. 6, and Ann. Sci. Gdol. vol. iv. 
(1873), p. 128, fig. 27 ; I. Bonomi, ltivista Ital. Paleont. 
vol. ii. (1896), p. 232. — Upper Miocene ; Licata, Sicily, 
and Mondaino, Prov. Forli, Italy. [Small fish.] 
Lepidopus carpathicus, D. G. Kramberger, Palaeontogr. vol. xxvi. 
(1879), p. 57, pi. xvi. fig. 1. — Lower Oligocene ; Baschka, 
Galicia. [Fragment of caudal region ; Palaeontological 
Museum, Munich.] 
