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and, as remarked by Agassiz, all the scales are quite 
smooth, without either serrations or notches. 
Egerton Coll. 
37036. Small specimen, about 0-18 in length, with imperfect head, 
but displaying the squamation and dorsal and anal fins, 
with remains of the caudal and paired fins ; Solenhofen. 
Each of the scales of the lateral line exhibits a single 
notch, but all the other scales are entirely smooth. The 
perforated series of scales indicating a second and superior 
lateral line between the occiput and dorsal fin is con¬ 
spicuous. Eaberlein Coll. 
Lepidotus subovatus (Miinster). 
1842. Scrobodus subovatus , G. von Munster, Neues Jahrb. p. 37, and 
Beitr. Petrefakt. pt. v. p. 55, pi. i. fig. 4. 
1844. Scrobodus subovatus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 203. 
1863. Scrobodus subovatus = aberrant Lepidotus , A. Wagner, Abh. k. 
bay. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Cl. vol. ix. p. 639. 
Type. Nearly complete fish ; Palaeontological Museum, Munich. 
The type species of the so-called genus Scrobodus , closely resem¬ 
bling Lepidotus notopterus in form and proportions, but much 
smaller, and described as differing from all known species of 
Lepidotus in the apical indentation of the tritoral teeth. 
Form, df Log. Lower Kimmeridgian (Lithographic Stone): Bavaria. 
37999. Plaster cast of type specimen; Solenhofen. 
Purchased , 1864. 
Lepidotus minor, Agassiz. 
1833-37. Lepidotus minor , L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pt. i. pp. 9, 
260, pi. xxxiv. ( non pi. xxix. c. fig. 12). 
1887. Lepidotus minor , W. Branco, Abh. geol. Specialk. Preussen u. 
Thiiring. Staaten, vol. vii. p. 363, pi. vi. fig. 2 (P non p. 366, pi. vi. 
% !); 
/893. Lepidotus minor, A. S. Woodward, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 562, 
pi. xlix. fig. 3. 
Type. Nearly complete fish; School of Mines, Paris. 
A species attaining a length of about 0*4. Length of head with 
opercular apparatus somewhat exceeding two-thirds the maximum 
depth of the trunk, and contained nearly five times in the total 
length of the fish. Operculum somewhat less than twice as deep 
as its maximum breadth, which is contained nearly three times in 
the length of the head; frontal profile steep and snout acute. 
External bones prominently and coarsely tuberculated; parietal 
