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ACTINOPTERYGII. 
p. 243, fig. 67. [Imperfect fish ; Paris Museum of Natural 
History.] 
1873. Alosa elongata, H. E. Sauvage, ibid, p. 245, figs. 52, 64. 
[Ditto.] 
1873. Alosa numidica, H. E. Sauvage, ibid. p. 249, fig. 66. 
1873. Alosa renoui, H. E. Sauvage, ibid. p. 253. [Ditto.] 
Type. Imperfect fish ; Paris Museum of Natural History. 
A species attaining a length of about 0*3. Head with opercular 
apparatus large, its length exceeding the maximum depth of the 
trunk and contained about twice in the length from the pectoral arch 
to the base of the caudal fin. Yertebrse about 30 in the abdominal, 
25 in the caudal region. Dorsal fin, with about 18 rays, almost 
completely in advance of the middle point between the occiput and 
the caudal fin; pelvic fins inserted opposite the middle of the 
dorsal; anal fin with 14 or 15 rays. Scales relatively large, 
sometimes pitted in their exposed portion. 
All the known examples of this species are distorted and frag¬ 
mentary ; hence diflferences between various specimens which have 
been supposed to represent four distinct species. The name Clugjea 
elongata cannot be used, having been employed by Lesueur in 1817 
for an existing fish of another species. 
Form. ^ Loc. Upper Miocene : Oran, Algeria. 
P. 9245. Three specimens. History uriknown. 
P. 9246. Imperfect distorted fish, with some of the large scales 
showing pittings. History unknown. 
P. 1881. Three good specimens and various fragments. 
Egerton Coll. 
Cloipea sardinites (Heckel). 
1850. Meletta sardinites, J. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., 
math-naturw. Cl. vol. i. p. 227, pis. xxiii., xxiv. 
1870. Meletta sardinites, var. heterostoma, L. von Vukotinovic, Rad 
Jugoslav. Akad. vol. xiii. p. 208. 
1883. Clupea {Meletta) sardinites, D. G. Kramberger, Beitr. Palaont. 
Oesterreich-Ungarns, vol. hi. pp. 76, 82. 
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Type. Nearly complete fish ; Court Museum, Vienna. 
A small slender species, attaining a length of about 0*12. Length 
of head with opercular apparatus contained four times, and the 
maximum depth of the trunk about six times in the total length of 
the fish. Vertebrae about 45 in number. Dorsal fin about as deep 
as long, with 13 rays, entirely in advance of the middle point 
between the occiput and caudal fin ; pelvic fins arising opposite the 
