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NATURAL HISTORY. (Fossils.) 
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minimus , smaller than any of the recent species, from Monte Bolca: 
the specimen here preserved was presented, together with those of the 
Semiophorus, by Chambers Hall, Esq. 
The last family of this order, the Mugiloids , (Case 20, upper shelves,) 
to which belongs the genus Mugil, with only one species, M. princeps , 
from the tertiary formation of Aix, in Provence; and, perhaps, also the 
Calamopleurus cylindricus , from the chalk of Brazil, which, having 
only slightly crenulated scales, appear to form a passage into 
The fourth Order, the Cycloid Fishes, (so denominated from the 
orbicular or elliptic form of the scales, consisting of corneous layers, 
and having their posterior margin entire,) is subdivided into the 
Acanthopterygian Cycloids , with the following families:—the Scom- 
beroids, Sphyrsenoids, Labroids, Blennioids, Loplieoids ; and the 
Malacopterygian Cycloids , comprising the families of Cyprinoids, 
Cyprinodons, Esocids, Halecoids, and Anguilliform fishes. None of 
them have representatives in formations prior to the chalk. 
Among the most ancient of the family of Scomberoids, Cuv. (Cases 
21, 22), are the species of the genera Palcsorhynchum , Palimphyes , 
Archceus , Isurus , and Anenchelum , in the slate of Glaris, of which 
a suite of characteristic specimens is here deposited; the chalk of 
Lewes has furnished instructive specimens exhibiting the dentition of 
Enchodus halocyon. Among those from Monte Bolca, the more 
prominent are the Thynnus propterygius , the Orcynus elongaius , the 
Carangopsis dorsalis , the Gasteronemus rhombus, &c.; the heads, &c., 
of a species of Cybium , from Sheppey, from which latter locality are 
also some species of Tetrapterus, a genus of the family of Xiplioids. 
( Case 23, middle shelves.) 
Of the family of Sphyrcenoids (Case 23, middle), the genera depo¬ 
sited are mostly known only by portions of the jaw 7 s and teeth, which 
were formerly mistaken for bones of reptiles; such as those of the dif¬ 
ferent species of Saurocephalus described and figured in M. Agassiz’ 
great work, w r here also are to be found several delineations from speci¬ 
mens forming part of the series of Hypsodon Lewesiensis , which is now 
referred to a family distinct from the Sphyrsenoids, namely the Scombro - 
esocids of Miiller. (Case 24, middle.) 
All species belonging to the family of the Cyprinoids or Carps 
(Cases 24, 25), are fresh-water fishes. The most interesting of those 
here deposited are the large and most perfect specimens of Tinea 
furcata and T. leptosoma , and another species, from the slate of Oenin- 
gen, w T hich is also the locality from which one of the smaller species of 
Leuciscus derives its name ; the largest species of the latter genus, 
L. Hartmanni, is from the tertiary formation of Steinheim, in Wiirtem- 
berg; the small L. papyraceus, from the lignite called paper coal, of 
Bonn and Bareuth, to which species also the impressions in semiopal, 
from Bohemia, appear to belong. 
Among the Esocids or pikes (Cases 24 to 27), the fine suite of 
specimens of Esox lepidotus from Oeningen deserve particular notice, 
as likewise the large Sphenolepis squamosseus, from Aix, in Provence, 
and the Sphenolepis Cuvieri, of very rare occurrence in the gypsum 
of Montmartre, and named after its illustrious discoverer, by whom it 
was first noticed, in his Recherches sur les Ossemens fossiles. 
The Halecoids (Cases 25 to 27, middle), or Herrings, (afamily con« 
sisting of Cuvier’s Clupese and Salmonidae, but which have lately 
