SPARID.E. 
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Sparnodus microstomus (Agassiz). 
1796. Spams brama, G. S. Volta, Ittiolit. Veronese, p. clxxxvii. pl.xlv. 
fig. 3 (errors). 
1818. Sparus brama = Spams vulgaris, H. D. de Blainville, Nouv. Diet. 
d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxvii. p. 350. 
1835. Serranus microstomus , L. Agassiz, Neue9 Jahrb. p. 299 (name 
only). 
1835. Serranus occipitalis, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 300 (name only). 
1835. Dentex breviceps , L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 300 (name only). 
1839. Serranus microstomus , L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. p. 100, 
pl. xxiii a. 
1839. Serranus occipitalis, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 102, pl. xxiii. [Im- 
perfect fish ; Paris Museum of Natural History.] 
1839. Dentex breviceps, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 149, pl. xxvii. figs. 3, 4. 
[Imperfect fish ; Paleontological Museum, Munich.] 
Type. Imperfect fish; Paris Museum of Natural History. 
A smaller species than the type, of similar general proportions, 
hut frontal profile apparently steeper, scales smaller, articulated 
dorsal fin-rays 12, articulated anal fin-rays 10 in number. 
Form. Sp Loc. Upper Eocene : Monte Bolca. 
13452-53, 21425, 21529. Three specimens in counterpart, the first 
very imperfect. Purchased. 
P- 1935. Two small specimens. Egerton Coll. 
p - 3898, P. 3902. Two small specimens, the first labelled Serranus 
microstomus, the second Dentex breviceps by Agassiz. 
Enniskillen Coll . 
p 1966. Imperfect fish 0-175 in length, doubtfully of this species. 
Egerton Coll. 
Sparnodus bowerbanki (Agassiz). 
1845. Sritenvrus bowerbanki , L. Agassiz, Hep. I3rit. Assoc. 1844, 
p. 295, pl. xl. 
1846. Scicenurus crassior, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 307 (name only). 
(?) 1854. Scicenurus brevier, H. Owen, Catal. Foss. Rept. & Pisces, 
Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. p. 171, no. 681. [Fragmentary head.] 
Type. Fragment of head and trunk; British Museum. 
The tvpe species of the so-called Scicenurus, knoun only by 
fragments, larger than the preceding species, with the antericr 
suborbital and prcoperculum more coarsely and prominently 
crimped. 
