MUR^XID^E. 
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Bolca. The head is shown to be rather short, with stout 
jaws; and the very slender branchiostegal rays curve 
round the remains of the opercular apparatus. The 
robust clavicles are exhibited, but the pectoral hns are 
destroyed. The median fins have the extent noted in 
the specific diagnosis. ISTo traces of scales can be distin¬ 
guished. Egerton EnnishiUen Colls. 
P. 1891, P. 3877. Imperfect small specimen, in counterpart, 0*16 
in length, probably young of this species ; Monte Bolca. 
Egerton EnnislcilJen Colls. 
P. 3878. Fragmentary anterior half of fish labelled by Agassiz ; 
Monte Bolca. Enniskillen Coll. 
Anguilla elegans, M inkier. 
1861. Anguilla elegans, T. 0. AVinkler, Descript. Poiss. Foss. d’Oerin¬ 
gen (Natuiirk. Verhandl. Holland. Maatsch. [2] vol. xiv.), p. 57, 
pi. vii. fig. 21. 
T'ype. Xearly complete fish ; British Museum. 
A robust species, attaining a length of about O’o. Length of 
head with opercular apparatus contained nine times in the total length 
to the base of the caudal fin ; median fins as in A. legAojgtera, 
About 100 vertebrae. Teeth slender, conical. 
Form. Loc. Upper !^[iocene: Oeningen, Baden. 
42769. Type specimen, in counterpart, described and figured by 
Winkler, loc. cit. Van Breda Coll. 
42770. Broken and imperfect specimen, in counterpart, noticed by 
Winkler, loc. cit. p. 57. Van Breda Coll. 
The following specific names have also been given to indetermin¬ 
able specimens :— 
Anguilla hrancliiostegalis., L. Agassiz, Heues Tahrb. 1835, p. 307 
(name only).—Upper Eocene ; Monte Bolca. 
Anguilla intersginalis, L. Agassiz, ihid. p. 307 (name onh*).— 
Upper Eocene ; Monte Bolca. 
uViguilla midtiradiata, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. v. (1843-44), 
pt. i.p. 15, pt. ii. p. 135, pi. xxix. fig. 1.—Lower Oligoceue ; 
Aix-en-Provence. [Portion of tail; olim John Murray 
Coll.] 
uinguilla pachgura, L. Agassiz, ihid. (1843-44), pt. i. p. 15, 
pt. ii. p. 135, pi. xxix. fig. 2.—Upper Miocene; Oeningen, 
Baden. [Portion of tail;, Geological Museum, Zurich. 
