PEECIDJE. 
509 
pi. viii. fig. 8.—Form. & loc. unknown. [Indeterminable 
distorted specimen.] 
Smerdis rhoensis, T. C. Winkler, Archiv. Mus. Teyler, vol. v. 
(1880), p. 92, pi. iii. figs. 5, 6.—Lower Miocene (Lignite); 
Bboen. [Imperfect fish; Geological Museum, Univ. 
Wiirzburg.] 
Smerdis sandhergeri^ T. C. Winkler, loc. cit. (1880), p. 89, pi. iii. 
figs. 1, 2.—Middle Oligocene (Lignite); Sieblos and 
Eisgraben, Bavaria. [Imperfect fish; Geological Museum, 
Univ. Wiirzburg.] 
Smerdis sauvagei, C. Brongniart, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie [3] 
vol. iv. (1880), p. 356, pi. iii. Smerdis sp., H. E. Sauvage, 
Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, vol. viii. (1874), p. 186, 
pi. i. figs. 2, 3.—Lower Miocene (Lignite) ; Menat, Puy-de- 
Home. [Imperfect fish, referred to S. aduncus by E. 
Bassani, Atti B. Accad. Sci. Napoli (2) vol. iii. 1889, no. 6, 
p. 54.] 
Smerdis siehlosensis, T. C. Winkler, loc. cit. (1880), p. 91, pi. iii. 
figs. 3, 4.—Middle Oligocene (Lignite); Sieblos, Bavaria. 
[Imperfect fish; Geological Museum, Univ. Wiirzburg.] 
Smerdis taramellii, E. Bassani, Atti B. Accad. Sci. Napoli [2] 
vol. iii. (1889), no. 6, p. 56, j)!. v. figs. 2, 3.—Lower 
Miocene; Chiavon. [Imperfect fish; Zigno Collection, 
Univ. Padua.] 
Smerdis ventralis., L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. (1836), p. 58, 
pi. viii. fig. 7. Cyprinodon'l G. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. ed. 2, 
vol. iii. (1822), p. 346, pi. Ixxvi. fig. 14. Perea cyprino- 
don ?, H. D.de Blainville, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist.Nat. vol. xxvii. 
(1818), p. 375.—Upper Eocene (Gypsum) ; Montmartre, 
Paris. 
Indeterminable fragments of a small fish from the Lower Eocene 
of Belgium are also named Smerdis Jieersensis by T. C. Winkler, 
Archiv. Mus. Teyler, vol. ii. (1869), p. 301, pi. xxxviii. figs. 3-7. 
Genus LABRAX, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
[Hist. Nat. Poissons, vol. ii. 1828, p. 55.] 
Syn. Platacanthus, G. Fischer de Waldheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 
Moscou, vol. xxiii. 1850, pt. i. p. 286, 
Supramaxilla absent; suborbitals not serrated; preoperculum 
merely serrated without spine at angle, and operculum with two 
feeble spines behind. Vertebrae 12 in abdominal, 13 in caudal 
