CHIROTHRICIDiE. 
285 
6 cau( ^ a l fin. Pelvic fins arising within the anterior third of the 
space between the pectoral and anal tins, and when adpressed not 
reaching the latter ; each pelvic fin comprising S rays of which all 
are divided and articulated except the anterior two, which are the 
^ougest and closely articulated without branching distall}'. Dorsal 
,, Wlt8 * 12 rays, the foremost shortest and apparently undivided, 
e °lh e rs both divided and articulated distally. Anal fin with 2 
e °mparatively short undivided rays in front, followed by 7 divided 
Ia 5 s , separated from the caudal fin by a space equal in length to its 
base-line. Tubercles on the scutes of the dorsal ridge between 
6 an< l the occiput produced into small acute points. 
orrn. J MC ' Upper Cretaceous : Sendenhorst, Westphalia. 
Not 
represented in the Collection. 
Telepholis (?) tenuis (Davis). 
1887 - Engrcudis (?) tenuis, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] 
1 WQ v °l - fii- P' 583, pi. xxx. fig. 4 (non fig. 5). 
95 - Exoccctnides tenuis, D. G. Kramberger, Djeia Jugoslav. Akad. 
, Vo1 ’ xvi ' P- 39 - 
Telepholis (?) tenuis, A. S. Woodward, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] 
vol. ii. p. 4io. 
rp 
ype. Imperfect fish ; Edinburgh Museum. 
1 omewhat smaller than the type species. Length of head with 
peicular apparatus contained about throe and a half times in the 
g n 8tfi of the trunk from the pectoral arch to the base ol the caudal 
Vertebrae about 26 in number in the abdominal, 21 in the 
b ^ region. Pectoral fins when adpressed to the trunk extending 
ejond the insertion of the pelvic pair, and comprising about 16 
'cate divided rays; pelvic fins situated probably as in the t}pe 
species an d resembling the latter except; in having only 7 rays; 
or «d fi n a j SQ apparently as in the type species. 
oria. dj- /.oc. Upper Cretaceous : Hakel, Mt. Lebanon, Syria. 
‘ represented in the Collection. 
An imperfect specimen has also been ascribed to this genus, as 
follows : 
Telepholu) biantennatus, W. von der Marck, Palmontogr. vol. xxii. 
(1873), p. 56, pi. i. fig. 3. — Upper Cretaceous ; henden- 
horst, Westphalia. [Head with anterior abdominal 
region ; Academy of Munster.] 
