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Form. Loc. Upper Cretaceous : Hakel, Mt. Lebanon. 
P. 4758. Type specimen described and figured by Davis, loc. cit. 
Impressions of the maxilla and the lower end of the 
preoperculum exhibit a radiating ornamentation. The 
vertebrae are stout, and 13 or 14 may be reckoned as 
caudal. A pelvic fin exhibits one long spine and the 
bases of six divided rays. The characters of the dorsal 
and anal fins are mentioned in the above diagnosis. The 
caudal fin, with very stout rays, is clearly forked. The 
feeble serrations of the scales are especially distinct in 
the abdominal region. Lewis Coll. 
P. 94. Fragmentary distorted specimen. Lewis Coll. 
P. 8689. Imperfect fish. Parcliased, 1897. 
Hoplopteryx syriacus (Pictet & Humbert). 
1866. Beryx syriacus, Pictet & Humbert, Xouv. Kech. Poiss. Foss. 
Mt. Liban, p. 28, pi. i. 
1887. Hoplopteryx syriacus, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] 
vol. hi. p. 514. 
Type. Imperfect distorted fish; Geneva Huseum. 
A species attaining a length of about 0*15. Length of head with 
opercular apparatus considerably less than the maximum depth 
of the trunk, and contained about one and a half times in the length 
from the pectoral arch to the base of the caudal fin. Dorsal fin 
occupying one half of the back, comprising S very stout, longi¬ 
tudinally-ribbed spines and about 12 divided rays, the length of the 
longest spine equalling half the depth of the trunk at its insertion; 
anal fin with 5 very stout spines, which gradually increase to a 
length equalling that of the longest dorsal, arising opposite the 
foremost divided ray of the dorsal. Serrations of scales very deep 
and fine. 
Form. 4' Loc. Upper Cretaceous : Hount Lebanon, Syria. 
49553. Imperfect fish, apparently not distorted, displaying the 8 
dorsal spines and good impressions of the 5 anal spines ; 
Sahel Alma. Lewis Coll. 
46507, 48108, 48109. Three fragments of trunk, the last two dis¬ 
playing remains of the 5 anal spines : Sahel Alma. 
Lewis Coll. 
