510 
ACTINOPTERYGII. 
region. Anterior dorsal fin with 8 to 10 spines, posterior dorsal 
with 1 spine and 11 to 14 articulated rays; anal fin with 3 spines 
and 8 to 12 articulated rays; caudal fin more or less forked. 
The existing species of Lahraoo occur on the coasts of the i^orth 
AtJ antic and Mediterranean, and in the fresh waters of l^orth 
America. 
Labrax ubinoi (Pischer de Waldheim). 
1850. Platacanthus uhinoi^ G. Fischer de Waldheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. 
Nat. Moscou, vol. xxiii. pt. i. p. 286, pi. vi. 
1863. Labrax heckelii, F. Steindachner, Sitzungsh. k. Akad. Wiss., 
math.-naturw. Cl. vol. xlvii. pt. i. p. 140, pi. iii. [Imperfect fish; 
Court Museum, Vienna.] 
Tyi^e. Fragmentary head, &c. 
The type species of the so-called Platacanthus, attaining a length 
of about 0*45. Length of head with opercular apparatus equalling 
maximum depth of trunk and contained about three and a half times 
in the total length to the base of the caudal fin. Anterior dorsal 
fin with 9 spines, posterior dorsal with 1 spine and 13 articulated 
rays, the fifth dorsal spine being the longest; anal fin probably 
with 3 spines and 12 articulated rays, the second anal spine being 
shorter but stouter than the third. 
Form. ^ Log. Tertiary : Euboea, Greece. 
P. 8948. Fine specimen about 0*42 in length, fractured across the 
anterior abdominal region. Purchased, 1898. 
P. 3911. Another fine large specimen, wanting the caudal fin, 
bearing the MS. name “ Perea Forhesi, Ag.” 
Enniskillen Coll. 
P. 1921-22. Two more imperfect specimens, the second showing the 
hinder part of the cranial roof. Egerton Coll. 
P. 2018. Impression of skeleton probably of this species, obtained 
by Bear-Admiral T. Spratt “ from a freshwater deposit 
at Koumi, Euboea. Apparently the specimen referred to 
by Spratt, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. iii. (1847), p. 69. 
Egerton Coll. 
Labrax schizurus, Agassiz. 
1836. Labrax schizurus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. p. 89, pi. xiii. 
figs. 2, 3. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; Paris Museum of Natural History. 
