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region, and with traces of furrows or lidges on the scales 
(? overlapped portion). Egerton Coll- 
P. 4530. Two good specimens. Enniskillen Coil- 
'S. 5280. Good specimen. Presented by Walter Myers, Esq., 1887. 
21529. Three specimens. Purchased, 1847. 
Atherina sarmatica, Kramberger. 
1891. Atherina sarmatica, 1). G. Kramberger, Rad Jugoslav. Akad. 
vol. cvi. p. 116, pi. iii. fig. 2. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; Geological Museum, University of Agram. 
A very small species much resembling A. macrocephala, hut 
vertebra about 45 in number and maximum depth of trunk con 
tained between seven and eight times in the total length o 
the fish. 
Form. 6f Loc. Upper Miocene (Sarmatian) : Dolje, Croatia. 
Not represented in the Collection. 
Atherina vardinis, Sauvage. 
1883. Atherina vardinis, 11. E. Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Geol. 1 ranee, Pi 
vol. xi. p. 491, pi. xi. fig. 4. 
Type. Imperfect fish. , 
A small species, attaining a length of about 0‘1. Length of hea^ 
with opercular apparatus contained about four and a half times, an 
maximum depth of trunk between six and seven times in the o a 
length of the fish. Width of orbit about equalling length of snou . 
and one third the total length of the head with opercular appar alul j- 
Vertebrae from 45 to 50 in number. Pelvic fins arising muc i 
nearer to the pectorals than to the anal and far in advance of tie 
anterior dorsal, which seems to comprise only four or five spinom 
rays and is almost as far from the occiput as from the tail. 1 
distance between the origin of the two dorsal fins somewhat loss 
than that between the origin of the posterior dorsal and the cau a 
fin ; anal fin arising somewhat in advance of the posterior dorsa 
Scales not crenulated, probably about 45 in a longitudinal, 10 in 
transverse series. 
Form. Sf Loc. Upper Eocene : Gard, France. 
P. 6007-9. One slab with five specimens, and two detache 
examples, showing the principal characters of the species , 
St. Hypolite de Caton. Purchased, 1889- 
