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upper jaw in length; teeth minute and clustered, with larger 
slender conical teeth at intervals. Vertebrae from 55 to 85 in 
number. Paired tins small ; dorsal and anal fins similar, without 
Posterior finlets ; caudal fin forked or nearly truncate. Scales 
small and cycloid. 
Belone tenuis, Kramberger. 
*894. Belone tenuis, D. G. Kramberger, Rad Jugoslav. Akad. vol. cxx. 
p. 73. 
1898. Belone tenuis, D. G. Kramberger, Glasnik Soc. Hist. Nat. 
Croatica, vol. x. p. 26, pi. ii. fig'. 1- 
Type. Nearly complete fish ; National Museum, Agram. 
A small species, about 0'25 in length. Head with opercular 
apparatus occupying nearly one third of the total length to the 
l> a 8e of the caudal fin ; jaws apparently equal in length. Approxi- 
mately 57 vertebra;. Pelvic fins about midway between pectoral 
and caudal fins ; anal fin with from 16 to 18 rays. 
f'orm. df Loc, Upper Miocene: Jurjevcani, near Plesivica, Croatia. 
N °t represented in the Collection. 
^ Fragments of imperfectly defined species not represented in the 
Collection are also described thus : — 
Belone acutirostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. (18/3), 
art. no. 1, p. 257 (in parti, fig. 2 ( non figs. 3, 68), and 
ibid. vol. xi. (1880), art. no. 3, p. 46. Xiphias acuti- 
rostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. [5] vol. xiv. (1870), 
art. no. 7, p. 11. — Upper Miocene ; Licata, Sicily. [Head.] 
Belone flava, E. Delvaux, Ann. Soc. Geol. Belg. vol. xiv. (1887), 
Mem. p. 71, pi. iii. figs. 1, 8, 9. — Lower Eocene (Lower 
Ypresian) ; Belgium. [Scales, &c.] 
Genus SCOMBRESOX, Lacepede. 
[Hist. Nat. Poiss. vol. v. 1803, p. 344.] 
As Belone , but all teeth minute, and a few finlets behind dorsal 
and anal fins. 
Scombresox obtusirostris, Sauvage. 
1873. Belone acutirostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. G<5ol. vol. iv. art. 
no. 1, p. 257 (in part), fig. 68 (errore). 
1880. Scombresox obtusirostris, H. E. Sauvage, ibid. vol. xi. art. no. 3, 
P- 48. 
Type. Nearly complete fish. 
An imperfectly known species, attaining a length of about 0*35. 
