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HemiiJiyrsites licatce, H. E. Sauvage, loc. cit. 1873, p. 139. 
Acanihonotos licatce^ H. E. Sauvage, loc. cit. 1870, p. 10. 
—Ibid. [Eragments.] 5’^ //<g^/^ 25 ^g. o ^ 
Megalolepis bascJicaensis^ D. G. Kramberger, Pal8eoiitogr..vol. xxvi. 
(1879), p. 61, pi. xvi. fig. 3.—Lower Oligocene; Bascbka, 
Galieia. [Type species. Imperfect fish ; Palseontological 
Museum, Munich.] •:=• ^ 5^8' - 
Megalolepis latus, D. G. Kramberger, ibid. p. 62, pi. xvi. fig. 2. 
—Ibid. [Imperfect fish; Palaeontological Museum, 
Munich..] 
X ^ TrichiuricTithys incertus, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. 
(1873), art. no. 1, p. 130, fig. 28.—Upper Miocene; 
• Licata, Sicily. [Imperfect caudal region.] 
yiy'r>^ XipJiopterus falcatus, L. Agas siz, K eugs^JahiU. 1835, p. 295, and 
/V. Qfv>,. S*c-;. Y^k • Poiss. Eoss. vol. v. pt.. i. (1844), p. /7. Esox falcatus, 
H*V>'2'3r G. S. Yolta, Ittiolit. Veronese (1796), p. ccxxxvii. pi. Ivii. 
—Upper Eocene ; Monte Bolca. [Fragmentary fish ; 
Paris Museum of Natural History.] 
Unsatisfactory fragments of jaws and other bones have also been 
referred to supposed extinct species of the existing genus Pelamys 
as follows:— 
Pelamys adunca, R. Lawley, Nuovi Studi Pesci, &c., Colline 
Toscane (1876), p. 64, pi. v. fig. 6.—Lower Pliocene ; 
Orciano, Tuscany. 
Pelamys robusta, P. J. Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. [2] 
vol. xxxi. (1871), p. 512.—Middle Oligocene (Rupelian) ; 
Basele, Belgium.^ ^ ^ 
^ jL. ^ 
An otolith,'^ot^j 
as follows :— 
_ a. 
represented^ tlie 
Collection, nas been described 
Otolithus {Scombridarum) ihynnoides^Pi. Koken, Zeitschr. deutsch. 
geol. Ges. vol. xliii. (1891), p. 130, pi. x. fig. 10.—Middle 
Oligocene; Waldbbckelheim. 
Family PALZEORHYNCHID.E. 
Trunk much elongated and laterally compressed. Snout much 
produced; mandibular suspensorium inclined sharply forwards, but 
gape of mouth wide ; teeth minute or absent. Vertebrae 50 to 60 
in number; ribs completely encircling the abdominal cavity; 
