584 
ACTINOPTEEYGII. 
38148-49. Two distorted specimens, the first showing vertebrae and 
median fins, the second scales : Lignite, Monte Viale. 
Purchased, 1864. 
49336. Impression of skeleton ; Lignite, Monte Viale. 
Presented by A. W. Waters, Esq., 18/8. 
P. 1973,. P. 4534. Two imperfect distorted specimens; Lignite, 
Monte Viale. Egerton & Enniskillen Colls. 
Lepidocottus multipinnatus (Meyer). 
1848. Gobius multipinnatus, H. von Meyer, Neues Jahrb. p. 783. 
(?) 1851. Gobius (?) conicus, H. von Meyer, Neues Jahrb. p. 80. 
1851. Cuttm (?) multipinnatus, H„ von Meyer, Palsoontogr. vol. n. 
p. 106, pi. xvii. fig. 1. 
1851. Coitus brevis (?), II. von Meyer, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 107, pi. xv *' 
figs. 7-10. 
1856. Gobius (?), II. von Meyer, loc. cit. vol. vi. p. 27, pi. i. fig- 6. 
Type. Imperfect fish. 
Much resembling L. brevis, but dorsal fin with 13 or 14 articu- 
lated rays and anal fin with 12 rays. 
Form. £$• Loc. Lower Miocene : Wiirtemberg. 
35513-14, 35518. Three specimens, one being depressed and dis- 
torted ; Unterkirchberg, near Ulm. Purchased, I860. 
35752-53. Two fragmentary specimens ; Unterkirchberg. 
Purchased, i860. 
The following spocies has also been described, but is not repre- 
sented in the Collection : — 
Lepidocottus elongatus, F. Bassani, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Napoli, 
[2] vol. iii. (1889), no. 6, p. 50, pi. v. fig. 5 .— Lower 
Miocene; Chiavon, Vicentin. [Imperfect fish; Piovent 
Coll., Lonedo.] 
Some other small Tertiary fishes referred to Gobius probably 
belong to Lepidocottus. Among these may be mentioned the so 
called Gobius elatus, oblongus, and viennensis from the Upper Miocene 
of Hemals, Vienna (F. Steindachner, Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss., 
math.-naturw. Cl. vol. xl. 1860, pp. 561-565, pi. i. figs. 2-4, pi- »• 
fig. 1); also Gobius pullus from the Upper Miocene of Dolje an 
Podsused, Croatia (D. G. Kramberger, Beitr. Palaont. Oesterr. 
Ungarns, vol. ii. 1882, p. 133, pi. xxv. figs. 2, 2 a). 
