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ACTINOPTEETGIi. 
Lepidopus brevicauda (vom Rath). 
1859. Anenchelum 'brevicauda, G. vom Rath, Zeitschr. deiitsch, geol. 
Ges. Yol. xi. p. 124, pi. t. fig. 1. 
1886. Lepidopus brevicauda, A. Wettstein, Fischfaiina Tertiaer. Glar- 
nerschief. (Denkschr. schweiz. Palaeont. Ges. Yol. xiii.), p, 43, 
pi. Y. figs. 2, 7, 8, pi. yI. fig. 4. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; IlniYersity Geological Museum, Bonn. 
A small species attaining a length of about 0*5. Maximum 
depth of trunk contained about fifteen times in length of Yertebral 
column. Teeth apparently more numerous than in L. glarisianus. 
Vertebrae about 36 in the abdominal, 53 in the caudal region. 
Length of longest pectoral fin-rays not exceeding depth of trunk; 
dorsal and anal fins low. 
Form. ^ Loc. Oligocene : Canton Glarus, Switzerland. 
Rot represented in the Collection. 
Lepidopus albyi, SauYage. 
1870. Lepidopus albyi, H. E. SauYage, Ann. Sci. Rat. [5] yoI. xir. 
art. no. 7, p. 5. 
1873. Lepidopus albyi, H. E. Sauxage, Ann. Sci. Geol. yoI. Iy. 
art. no. 1, p. 123, fig. 25. 
Type. Imperfect fish. 
A small species, apparently not more than 0-3 in length. Length 
of head with opercular apparatus contained about sexen times, 
maximum depth of trunk about sixteen times in total length of fish. 
Vertebrae 35 in the abdominal, 58 in the caudal region. Pectoral 
fins small. 
Form. Loc. Upper Miocene : Licata, Sicily. 
P. 1705. Fragmentary remains of head and abdominal region. 
Egerton Coll. 
The following extinct species haxe also been described, but there 
are no examples in the Collection : — 
Lepidopus anguis, H. E. Sauxage, Ann. Sci. Rat. [5] xol. xix. 
. (1870), art. no. 7, p. 6, and Ann. Sci. Geol. xol. ix. 
(1873), p. 128, fig. 27 ; I. Bonomi, Rixista Ital. Palecnt. 
Yol. ii. (1896), p. 232.—Upper Miocene ; Licata, Sicily, 
and Mondaino, Prox. Forli, Italy. [Small fish.] 
Lepidopus carpatliicus, D. G. Kramberger, Palaeontogr. xol. xxxi. 
(1879), p. 57, pi. xxi. fig. 1.—Lower Oligocene; Baschka, 
Galicia. [Fragment of caudal region ; Palaeontological 
Museum, Munich.] 
