BERYCID^. 
397 
represented by the following specimen may be only an immature 
stage of the same:— 
P. 8771. Fragmentary remains of head and abdominal region of a 
small fish, resembling the form described by W. von der 
March, Palaeontogr. vol. xi. (1863), p. 15, pi. i. figs. 5, 6, 
under the name of Hoplojpteryx gihhus ; Baumberg. 
Purchased, 1897. 
Hoplopteryx zippei (Agassiz). 
1834. Beryx zippei, L. Agassiz^ Verliandl. Ges. vaterland. Mus. 
Bohmen, p. 68. 
1838-39. Beryx zippei, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. pp. 4, 120, 
-pi. XV. fig. 2. 
1845. Beryx zippei, A. E. Reuss, Verstein. bohm. Kreideform. pt. i. 
p. 11, pi. i., pi. ii. fig. 1. 
1878. Beryx zippei, A. Fritsch, Kept. u. Fisclie bohm. Kreideform. 
p. 41, woodc. fig. 62, pi. V. fig. 1. 
1887. Hoplopteryx zippei, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] 
vol. iii. p. 514. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; Royal Bohemian Museum, Prague. 
An incompletely known species, closely resembling the preceding 
in form and proportions, but supposed to comprise only 5 spines in 
the dorsal fin, which terminates opposite the posterior end of 
the anal. 
Form. Loc. Dpper Cretaceous (Turonian) : Bohemia. 
P. 9006. Imperfect specimen ; Planerkalk, Weissenberg, near 
Prague. Purchased, 1899. 
47497. Plaster cast of well-preserved specimen ; Planerkalk, 
Bohemia. Presented hy Prof. Anton Fritsch, 1876. 
Hoplopteryx lewesiensis (Mantell). 
[Plate XVI. fig. 4. Text-figure 13.] 
1822. Zeus lewesiensis, G. A. Mantell, Foss. S. Downs, p. 234, 
pis. XXXV., xxxvi. 
3835-39. Beryx ornatus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., Feuill. p. 55, and 
vol. iv. p. 115, pi. xiv a. pi. xiv h. figs. 1, 2, pi. xiv c. figs. 1, 3-6 
{non fig. 2), pi. xiv 6? (exc. fig. 2). 
1850. Beryx ornatus, F. Dixon, Geol. Sussex, p. 371, pi. xxxvi. 
figs. 1, 3, pi. xxxiv. figs. 4«, 4 c. 
1888. Hoplopteryx lewesiensis, A. S. Woodward, Proc. Geol. Assoc, 
vol. X. p. 327. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; British Museum. 
