510 
ACTINOPTERYGII. 
region. Anterior dorsal fin with 8 to 10 spines, posterior dorsal 
with 1 spine and 11 to 14 articulated rays; anal fin with 3 spines 
and 8 to 12 articulated rays ; caudal fin more or less forked. 
The existing species of Labrax occur on the coasts of the North 
Atlantic and Mediterranean, and in the freshwater of North 
America. 
Labrax ubinoi (Fischer de Waldheim). 
1850. PI at acanthus ubinoi , Q. Fischer de Waldheim, Bull. Soc. Imp- 
Nat. Moscou, vol. xxiii. pt. i. p. 286, pi. vi. 
1803. Labrax /teckelii, F. Steindacliuer, Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Whs., 
math.-nuturw. Cl. vol. xlvii. pt. i. p. 140, pi. iii. [Imperfect fish; 
Court Museum, Vienna.] 
Type. Fragmentary head, &c. 
The type species of the Bo-called Flatacanthus, attaining a length 
of about 0'45. Length of head with opercular apparatus equalling 
maximum depth of trunk and contained about three and a halt times 
in the total length to the base of the caudal fin. Anterior dorsal 
fin with 9 spines, posterior dorsal with 1 spine and 13 articulated 
rays, the fifth dorsal spine being the longest ; anal fin probably 
with 3 spines and 12 articulated rays, the second anal spine being 
shorter but Btouter than the third. 
Form. 4’ Loc. Tertiary : Euboea, Greece. 
P. 8948. Fine specimen about 042 in length, fractured across the 
anterior abdominal region. Purchased, 1898. 
P. 3911. Another fine large specimen, wanting the caudal fin, 
bearing the MS. name “ Perea Forbesi, Ag.” 
Enniskillen Coll- 
P- 1921-22. Two more imperfect specimens, the second showing the 
hinder part of the cranial roof. Eyerton Coll- 
P. 2018. Impression of skeleton probably of this species, obtained 
by Hear- Admiral T. Spratt “ from a freshwater deposit 
at Koumi, Euboea. Apparently tbe specimen referred to 
by Spratt, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. iii. (1847), P- (,! *- 
Eyerton Coll. 
Labrax schizurus, Agassiz. 
1830. Labrax schhurus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. p. 89, pi x111- 
figs.2, 3. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; Paris Musoum of Natural History. 
