418 
ACXrsrOPTEETGII. 
Zeus pliocenims^ E. Lawley, op. cif. p. 65, pi. iv. figs. 4, 6.— 
Lo’vver Pliocene; Orciano. [Dermal plate.] 
Zeiis rohustus, D. G. Kramberger, loc. cit. p. 88, pi. i. figs. 1, 3, 8, 
pi. vi. fig. 3, and Djela Jugoslav. Akad. vol. xvi. (1895), 
p. 62, pi. xii. fig. 1. — TTpper Oligocene : Tilffer. [Erag- 
mentary fish.] 
Indeterminable fragments of fishes from the Dpper Miocene of 
Licata, Sicily, are named Zens licatce by H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. 
Xat. [5] vol. xiv. (1870), art. no. 7, p. 7, and Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. 
(1873), art. no. 1, p. 147, figs. 43, 44. 
Division B. SCOMBEIFOEMES. 
Pelvic fins thoracic, never with more than five articulated rays in 
addition to the spine, rarely without spine but more than five 
articulated rays. Dorsal and anal fin-spines either very few or 
comparatively feeble. Caudal pedicle much contracted. No bony 
stay between circumorbital ring and preoperculum. 
Synopsis of Families represented hy Extinct Genera or Species. 
I. Snout not produced. 
Few crowded spines in front of 
much-extended dorsal fin; ver¬ 
tebrae 28 to 40 in total number. 
Spinous portion of dorsal fin much 
less extended than articulated 
portion: vertebrae 24 (10 -|- 14) 
in total number, rarely one 
more or less. 
Spinous portion of dorsal fin more 
extended than articulated por¬ 
tion ; vertebrae 30 to 160 in 
total number . 
II. Snout produced into elongated ros¬ 
trum. 
Skeleton very delicate; vertebrae 
50 to 60 in total number: pelvic 
fins complete . 
Skeleton very robust; rostrum 
formed by premaxill^e; vertebrae 
24 to 26 in total number ; pelvic 
fins reduced or wanting. 
Steomateid.® (p. 419) 
Caeaxged^ (p. 425). 
SCOMEEED.^: (p. 451). 
Pal^oehyxchid^ (p. 482). 
XiPEiiE^ (p. 490). 
