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elevated; dorsal fin much less deep than the trunk at its origin, 
comprising 17 or 18 rays, of which the two or three foremost are 
short and spinous, the next the longest and articulated though not 
divided distally, and the others both articulated and divided distally. 
Serrations of scales deep and conspicuous. 
Form. Log. Upper Cretaceous : Westphalia. 
P. 3821. Pine large specimen about 0*25 in length, with open 
mouth displaying the maxilla and premaxiUa chiefiy in 
impression. The greater part of the fish is shown only 
in impression, and there seems to he evidence of an adipose 
dorsal fin. Enniskillen Coll. 
P. 2101. Equally large fish, much broken and distorted before or 
during fossilisation, but displaying the characteristic 
Scopeloid mouth and most of the branchiostegal rays. 
Egerton Coll. 
P. 2102. Fragmentary specimen, displaying the greater part of the 
dorsal fin, and remains ot the vertebrge and ribs in the 
abdominal region. The notochord seems to have passed 
through a small perforation in each vertebral centrum. 
Egerton Coll. 
P. 3823. Imperfect smaller fish on slab with remains of Sardinioides 
monasteri and Istieus grandis. Enniskillen Coll. 
P. 2101 a. Fish about O'17 in length, wanting the greater part of 
the head. Egerton Coll. 
Sardinioides megapterus (Pictet). 
1850. Osmeroides megapterus, F. J, Pictet, Poiss. Foss. Mt. Liban, 
p. 27, pi. iii. fig. 3. 
1898. Osmeroides megapterus { = Sardinioides), A. S. Woodward, Ann, 
Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] vol. ii. p. 488. 
Type. Imperfect distorted fish ; Geneva Museum. 
A species about OHo in length, known only by imperfect and 
distorted specimens insufficient for the basis of a precise diagnosis. 
General proportions apparently as in the type species, but the 
vertebrae 40 in number, the dorsal fin-rays only 10 or 11 in number 
and the scales very feebly serrated. 
Form. ^ Log. Upper Cretaceous : Sahel Alma, Mt. Lebanon. 
49552. Imperfect fish shortened and deepened by distortion, 
exhibiting the characteristic mouth widely opened, seven 
