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A CTINOPTERYGir. 
Widely distributed marine fishes, almost unknown among fossils. 
A figure of the skeleton of the existing Trigla is given by Agassiz, 
Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. pi. F. 
Ihero appear to ho no remains of members of this family among 
the fossils in the Collection, but various fragments of supposed 
extinct species of Trigla have been named as follows : — 
Trigla infausta, J. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., math-- 
naturw. Cl. vol. xix. (1861), pt. i. p. 70, pi. ix. fig. 9.— 
Middle Miocene (Leithakalk) ; Vienna. [Imperfect head 
and abdominal region.] 
Trigla licatce, H. R. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. [5] vol. xiv. ( 1870 ). 
art. no. 7, p. 12, and Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. (1873), 
art. no. 1, p. Ill, fig. 1, and ibid. vol. xi. (1380), 
art. no. 3, p. 21, fig. 8. — Upper Miocene ; Licata. [l m ' 
perfect fish.] 
Trigla nardii, de Bosniaski, Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat. — Proe.-Aerb- 
vol. i. (1878), p. xix (name only). — Upper Miocene, 
Gabbro, Tuscany. 
Trigla simonellii, I. Bonomi, Rivista Ital. Paleont. vol. ii. (1890), 
p. 234, pi. v. fig. 10. — Upper Miocene; Mondaino, Fio'- 
Forll, Italy. [Fragmentary small fish, indeterminable.] 
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Fragments of ornamented bones more or less resembling those o 
Triglida) have also received the following names : — 
Dactyloplerus pliocenicus, R. Law Icy, Nuovi Studi Pesci, etc-, 
Colline Toscane (1876), p. 61. — Lower Pliocene; Orcian°, 
Tuscany. [Undescribed, but bones said to be perfect' 
identical with those of existing D. volitans.'] 
Peristedion urcianensis, R. Lawley, ibid. p. 63. — Ibid. 
Trigloides alata, It. Lawley, ibid. p. 63. — Upper Miocene , 
Gabbro, Tuscany. 
Trigloides dejardini, P. J. Van Benoden, Bull. Acad. Roy. ”‘ 
[2] vol. xxxi. (1871), p. 501, pi. ii. figs. 9, H (” or 
fig. 13) ; R. Lawley, op. cit. 1876, p. 62.— Lower Plio- 
cene ; Belgium and Tuscany. [Type species of so-ca et 
Trigloides 
Trigloides insignis, R. Lawley, op. cit. 1876, p. 62. -Lowe 
Pliocene ; Volterrano, Tuscany. 
Trigloides van benedensis, R. Lawley, ibid. p. 62. ■ 0 
Pliocene ; S. Luce, near Orciano. 
Otoliths from the Lower Tertiary of the Jackson River, Miss 
