SCOPELIDjE. 
247 
**• 497 5. Similar small specimen. 
Presented by J. E. Lee , Esq., 1885. 
48161, 49492, 49608, F. 113. Four well-preserved fishes. 
Lewis Coll. 
• 1863. Three small specimens. Ec/erton Coll. 
Genus SARDINIUS, W. von der Marck. 
[Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges. vol. x. 1858, p. 245.] 
Head small and trunk moderately elongated, the maximum depth 
; lt the insertion of the dorsal fin. Mandibular suspensorium much 
inclined backwards, and cleft of mouth large ; jaws slender, and 
maxilla not expanded behind ; teeth minute, numerous and sharply 
pointed. Gill-rakers large and slender. 1 ertcbne about 45 in 
number, half caudal and half abdominal ; the centra at least as 
lon g as deep, longitudinally striated; ribs delicate. Iso fin-rays 
cl on gated, but two or three in front of the median fins undivided 
and spinous. Pectoral fins with about 18 rays, relatively large and 
inserted just above the ventral border ; pelvic fins smaller, with 
about 10 rays, opposed to the dorsal fin, which is nearly median 
and comprises about 18 rays ; anal fin behind the dorsal, longer than 
de ep, with 20 rays ; caudal fin slightly forked. Scales large and 
uniform, pectinated and serrated, not deepened or thickened along 
th e course of the lateral line. 
Sardinius cordieri (Agassiz). 
1839-44. Osmerua cordieri , L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. ii. p. 101, 
pl. lx d. figg, ] ( 2. 
1858. Sardinius cordieri, W. von der Marck, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. 
Ges. vol. x. p. 245. 
I863 - Sardinius cordieri, W. you der Marck, Pakeontogr. vol. xi. 
P- 43, pl. vii. figs. 6, 7. 
I'jl'pe. Nearly complete fish. 
t ho typo species, attaining a length of about 0‘ 18. Length ot 
mad with opercular apparatus scarcely exceeding the maximum 
depth of the trunk, and a little more than one quarter the total 
mngth of the fish to the base of the caudal fin. Rays of pectoral 
hn, when adpressed, nearly' reaching the base of the pelvic fins, 
which are opposed to the origin of the dorsal and slightly nearer to 
the anal than to the pectorals ; dorsal fin deeper than long, the 
eugth of its longest ray equalling the depth of the trunk at its 
