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ACTINOPTERYGII. 
A large species, the head measuring about 0'2 in length. 1'. sternal 
bones ornamented with a coarse rugosity, no distinct tubercles. 
Maximum width of cranium slightly exceeding half its length l ,oin 
the occipital border to the end of the snout ; orbits situated exactly 
in the middle ; posterior extension of supraoccipital bone narrow, 
not keeled, about twico as long as broad, with nearly parallel side®) 
and its hinder border slightly notched by an acute re-cnteriiv 
angle. 
Form. 4’ Loc. Tertiary Lignite : Taubatc, Province of San 1 aU °’ 
Brazil. 
P. 9220. Type specimen, the skull chiefly in impression of dorsJ 
aspect, shown of nat. size in PI. XVII. fig. 4. 
Presented by John Gordon, Esq-, !■ 
?• 9221. Larger, more imperfect specimen, very friable, n0 ^ c ^ 
loc. cit. p. 64. Presented by John Gordon, Esq-, 
The following specimens also appear to be referable to Anus . 
P. 6331. Eight otoliths, described and one figured by E. I. Xcwt° * 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 205, pi. xxi. fig. 7 (drawing no 
reversed), under the namo of Arius baroni, sp. noV 
Recent (?), Ankoala, Madagascar. ..q 
Presented by Itev. R. Baron, ' 
16402 d. Hinder part of largo cranium, described and figured 
Arms s2>. a by R. Lydekker, Palaeont. Indica, scr. 
vol. iii. (1886), p. 252, pi. xxx vi. fig. 2 ; Pliocene, SiW a 
Hills, India. 
Presented by Col. Sir Proby T. Cautley, K.C.B., 
P. 4923. Large, externally ornamented bone ; Pliocene, 
Hills. Transferred from Inilia House Museum, 
Tho following otoliths have also been ascribed to this gonus . ^ 
Otolithus (Arius) yermanicus, E. Koken, Zeitschr. deutsch. o’ 
Ges. vol. xliii. (1891), p. 81, pi. i. «g- 3, P 1 , V ‘, ^ nVW i- 
Lower Oligoceno; Lattorf, Westeregeln, and • 
diugeu. Middle Oligoceno ; Sollingen, Woinheim, 
bockelhcim. gj^ 
Otolithus (Arias) vanyionis, E. Koken, loc. cit. 139 , P 
pi. vi. fig. 4. — Middle Oligocene ; Waldbockelheim. 
Otolithus danicus, E. Koken, loc. cit. 1891, p- 81. Oto * ^ 
( incertai sedis) crassus, E. Koken, Abh. ph}s. • 
Wiss. Giittingen, vol. xxxii. (1885), p. H6, pi- v - 
Lower Eocene ; Copenhagen. 
