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upper jaw in length; teeth minute and clustered, with larger 
slender conical teeth at intervals. Vertebras from 55 to 85 in 
number. Paired hns small; dorsal and anal fins similar, without 
posterior finlets; caudal fin forked or nearly truncate. Scales 
small and cvcloid. 
Belone tenuis, Kramberger. — W 
1894. Belone tenuis, D. G. Kramberger, Rad Jugoslav. Akad. vol. cxx. 
p. 73. 
1898. Belone tenuis, D. G.. Kramberger, Glasnik Soc. Hist. Kat. 
Croatica, vol. x. p. 26, pi. ii. fig. 1. 
Type. Xearly complete fish : Kational Museum, Agram, 
A small species, about 0*25 in length. Head with opercular 
apparatus occupying nearly one third of the total length to the 
base of the caudal fin ; jaws apx^arently equal in length. Approxi¬ 
mately 57 vertebrae. Pelvic fins about midway between pectoral 
and caudal fins ; anal fin with from 16 to 18 rays. 
Form. Loc. Upper Miocene: Jurjevcani, near Plesivica, Croatia. 
Kot represented in the Collection. 
Fragments of imperfectly defined species not represented in. the 
Collection are also described thus : — 
Belone amtirostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. (1873), 
art. no. 1, p. 257 (in partk fig. 2 (non figs. 3, 68), and 
ihid. vol. xi. (1880), art. no. 3, p. 46. XipJiias acuti- 
rostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Xat. [5] vol. xiv. (1870), 
art. no. 7. p. 11. — Epper Miocene ; Licata, Sicily. [Head.] 
Belone Jlava, E. Delvaux, Ann. Soc. Geol. Pelg. vol. xiv. (1887), 
Mem. p. 71, pi. iii. figs. 1, 8, 9. — Lower Eocene (Lower 
Ypresian); Belgium. [Scales, &c.] 
Genus SCOMBRESOX, Lacepede. 
[Hist. Xat. Poiss. vol. v. 1803, p. 344.] 
As Belone, but all teeth minute, and a few finlets behind dorsal 
and anal fins. 
Scoxnbresox obtusirostris, Sauvage. 
1873. Belone acutirostris, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. art. 
no. 1, p. 257 (in part), fig. 68 (errore). 
1880. Scombresox ohtusirostris, H. E. Sauvage, ibid, vol, xi. art. no. 3, 
p. 48. 
Typ)e. Yearly complete fish. 
An imperfectly known species, attaining a length of about 0'35, 
