CARANGID^. 
443 
which is contained three times in the total length of the fish to the 
base of the caudal fin. Anterior dorsal fin with 8 spines, the 
longest apparently exceeding in length any of the articulated dorsal 
rays; posterior dorsal with 23 to 25 articulated rays; anal fin 
with 21 to 23 articulated rays. 
Most of the known specimens of this species are much distorted 
in 
P. 
various directions. 
Form. 4* Loc. Oligocene: ^anton Glarus, Switzerland. 
5944. Two imperfect specimens not much distorted, labelled 
ArchcEoides glaronensis by Wettstein. One distinctly 
exhibits 14 caudal vertebrae, and in the same specimen 
the two separate anal spines are conspicuous. 
Purchased, 1889. 
P. 1998, P. 3944, P. 4519. Two imperfect specimens, obliquely 
distorted, in counterpart: Engi, Glarus. 
Egerton 4" EnnishiUen Colls. 
33960. Imperfect specimen showing vertebral column and dorsal 
and anal fins. Presented hy Aliss Elizabeth Warne, 1859. 
33976-77. Eractured and distorted small specimen, in counterpart. 
Presented hy Miss Elizabeth ^arne, 1859. 
P. 449. Imperfect trunk probably of this species, labelled as in¬ 
tended to be the type specimen of Pleionemus macrospon- 
dylus, Agassiz ; Engi. Egerton Coll. 
P. 1991, P. 4521. Much-deepened trunk with median fins, in 
counterpart, resembling the deepened specimens ascribed 
to Archceoides macrurus by Wettstein, loc. cit. pi. vii. 
figs. 9, 11, and labelled “Fomerpnscws, Ag.,”by Egerton; 
Egerton 4' EnnisTcillen Colls. 
P. 1991 a, P. 1992, P. 4521 a. Two more imperfect similarly deep¬ 
ened specimens, one being in counterpart; Engi. 
Egerton 4’ EnnisTcillen Colls. 
36089. More imperfect deepened specimen, in counterpart; Platten- 
berg, Glarus. Purchased, 1861. 
The imperfect and distorted specimen described as follows, is not 
determinable:— 
Archoeus brevis, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Eoss. vol. v. pt. i. (1843-44), 
p. 50, pi. xxviii. fig. 2. Archceoides longus, A. Wettstein, 
Eischfauna Tertiaer. Glarnerschief. (1886), p. 86.— 
Oligocene; Glarus. 
