TEIGLTD^.—GOBIID^. 
587 
sippi, have been named OtoUthus {Triylce) cor (E. Koken, Zeitschr. 
deutsch. geol. Ges. vol. xl. 1888, p. 287, pi. xviii, fig. 10). Others 
from the Oligocene of Germany have been named Otoliihus (Trigla) 
ellipticus^ 0. {Trigla) adjunctus^ 0. {Peristedion) personatus, and 
0. {‘I Agonus) primas (E. Koken, loc. cit. vol. xliii. 1891, pp. 130-^,:^^?:^ 
132, pi, X. figs. 6, 9 ; also loc. cit. vol. xxxvi. 1884, p. 555, pi. xii.' 
figs. 9, 10). ' 
The following extinct genera and species, not represented in the 
Collection, have been compared with Triglidae, but are too imper¬ 
fectly known for systematic determination :— _ 
I'. //??“/ t''j 'j" 
Podopteryx alhyi, H. E. oauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. xi. (1880), 
art. no. 3, p. 17, figs. 5, 6.— Upper Miocene ; Licata, 
^cily. [The type species. Imperfect fish.]> — 
Podopteryx hosniaslci, H. E. Saiivage, ibid. p. 19, fig. 7.—Ibid. 
( ^Imperfect fish.^ — /37vy^ct<°ey~<ys 
.5/.-S’, ^ o ^ 
Ko extinct members of the aberrant family of Cyclopterib^ are 
S'- 
known, but remains of the existing Cyclopterus lumpus^ Linn., 
have been found in nodules in Glacial Clay in Green’s Creek, \ 
Ottawa, Canada (J. AY. Dawson, Canad. Kat. n. s. vol. vi. 1872,-^^* V» 
p. 403). kP 
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Division F. GOBIIFOKMES. 
Pectoral fins with much extended base on flank ; pelvic fins 
thoracic or jugular, never with more than five articulated rays in 
addition to the spine, often modified. Dorsal fin-spines few, usually 
flexible, sometimes absent; anal fin with one or two feeble spines 
or none. No bony stay between circumorbital ring and preoper¬ 
culum. 
Synopsis of Pamities represented by Extinct Genera or Species. • 
All abdominal vertebrae with large transverse 
processes supporting ribs . GoBiiDiE (p. 587). 
Abdominal vertebrae without transverse pro¬ 
cesses. TuACHINIDiE (p. 589). 
Family GOBIIDiE. 
Elongated fishes with stout caudal pedicle. Gill-opening 
reduced. All abdominal vertebrae with large transverse processes 
supporting ribs. Pelvic fins variously modified, often united into a 
