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49498. Slab with two imperfect large specimens ; Hakel, One fish 
exhibits the ornament of the cranial roof, the other that 
of the operculum and scales. The total number of ver- 
tebrm can scarcely have exceeded 50, though they are not 
readily counted. Lewis Coll. 
49567. Another large specimen, showing indications of the arched 
maxilla; Hakel. . Leiuis Coll. 
P. 103. Large specimen wanting the greater part of the cranium, 
but displaying ornament of opercular apparatus and scales; 
Hakel. The five broad upper branchiostegals are distinct; 
followed below by more delicate rays. Leiois Coll. 
47313. More imperfect large fish displacing the dorsal fin, but 
wanting the greater part of the caudal region ; Hakel. 
Presented hy Sir Richard Ovjen., K.C.B.., 1874. 
49561. Fish about 0*14 in length; Hakel. The fins are shown, 
and there are indications of about 50 vertebrse. 
Lewis Coll. 
49500. Similar fish deepened by distortion ; Hakel. Lewis Coll. 
P. 104. Imperfect fish displaying the ornamented parietal, squa¬ 
mosal, and frontal bones in impression; Hakel. The 
complete specimen is shown of the natural size in PI. II. 
fig. 4, while part of the impression of the cranial roof is 
represented three times enlarged in fig. 4 a. Lewis Coll. 
49568. Another imperfect fish deepened and shortened by distor¬ 
tion ; Hakel. The scale-ornament is well displayed. 
Lewis Coll. 
Osmeroides cretaceus (W. von der Marck). 
1863. Rhabdolepis cretaceus, W. von der Marck, Palaeontogr. vol. xi. 
p. 26, pi. xii. fig. 1. 
1868. Kolcolepis cretaceus, W. von der Marck, ibid. vol. xv. p. 278. 
1873. Holcolepis cretaceus, W. von der Marck, ibid. vol. xxii. p. 57, 
pi. i. fig. 1. 
Pipe. Imperfect distorted fish; Academy of Munster. 
The type species of the so-called genus Holcolepis, attaining a 
length of about 0*4. Length of head with opercular apparatus 
about equal to the maximum depth of the trunk, which is contained 
four times in the length from the pectoral arch to the base of the 
caudal fin. Vertebrae about 70 in number, 24 being caudal. 
