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most dorsal fin-ray. They are grouped together by him under the 
name of Chipea {Melettci) doljeana (Kramberger, Beitr. Palaout. 
Oesterr.-IJngarns, vol. iii. 1883, p. 77, pi. xiv. fig. 4), and recorded 
from Dolje, Podsnsed, and Yrabce. There are no specimens in the . , 
Collection 
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The fishes "described as follows are not represented in the Collec- 
tion and are not clearly distinguished from Clapea :— ^ ^ 
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Alosina salmonea^ A. Wagner, Sitzungsb. k. bay. Akad. Wiss., 
math.-phys. Cl. 1860, p. 54.—Upper Eocene : Wernleiten, 
near Traunstein, Bavaria. [Nearly complete fish ; Palae¬ 
ontological Museum, Munich.] 
Clupeops insiynis, H. E. Sauvage, in E. Eontannes, Le Bassin de 
Crest (1880), p. 209, pi. vii. figs. 4, 5.—Lower Miocene ; 
Eurre, Drome. [Type species of Cliipeops. Imperfect fish.] 
To this or the closely-related family of Alepocephalid^ may 
probably be 
follows :— 
Esox monasteriemis, W. von der Marck, Palaeontogr. vol. xi. 
(1863), p. 32, pi. iii. fig. 3.—Upper Cretaceous ; Senden- 
horst, lYestphalia. [Imperfect trunk : Academy of 
Miinster.] 
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Family SALMONIDAi. 
referred the portion of the trunk of a fish described as 
Recent fishes distinguished from the Clupeidae by the presence of 
an adipose dorsal fin* and the incompleteness of the oviducts; also 
by the normal overlapping of the postclavicular plate by the clavicle. 
The extinct genera not being recognisable from their skeletons, the 
family was united by Agassiz with those of the Clupeoids under 
the comprehensive designation of Halecidae. 
Genus SALMO (Artedi), Linnaeus. 
[Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 308.] 
Head large, and trunk elongate-fusiform with rounded abdomen. 
Mouth deeply cleft and dentition powerful; spaced conical teeth on 
the ])remaxilla, maxilla, dentary, vomer, and palatine, none on 
pterygoids. Paired fins of moderate size, the pelvic pair opposed to 
the median dorsal; anal fin short, with not more than 14 rays ; 
caudal fin truncate. Scales small. 
This genus ranges throughout the freshwaters of the arctic and 
