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scales for the dorso-lateral line are also seen as far as the 
origin of the dorsal fin ; and the small ridge-scales, only 
preserved for a short distance behind the head, exhibit a 
comparatively blunt acumination. At the base of the 
dorsal and caudal fins one fringing row of scales is directly 
related to the fin-rays and fulcra, and does not conform to 
the regular flank-series of the trunk; at the base of the 
anal fin the squamation is lost. Beckles Coll. 
P. 4915. A more imperfect and fractured specimen, in counterpart; 
Hastings Sands, Silver Hill, Hastings. The antorbital 
portion of the skull is wanting, but most of the circum- 
orbital and suborbital bones are preserved and the former 
are larger than the latter. The preoperculum is coarsely 
rugose, while the operculum and suboperculum are closely 
and finely tuberculated; owing to fracture, the form of 
the operculum cannot be satisfactorily determined, but the 
proportions of the suboperculum seem to be as in the so- 
called L. fittoni, and its anterior ascending process is much 
more robust than in the type specimen of L. mantelli. 
Part of a pectoral fin is preserved, and the rays are shown 
to have been very closely articulated distally. Fragments 
of the dorsal and caudal fins and the imperfect squama¬ 
tion present no features worthy of special note. 
Dawson Coll. 
P. 6338. Head and greater portion of trunk, apparently much 
abraded, and showing only the origin of the dorsal fin: 
Hastings. The head-bones show traces of fine tubercula- 
tions besides the coarse rugae, but the much-fractured 
operculum is smooth. The fluted structure of the scales 
is exposed by abrasion; the principal flank-scales are 
serrated : and the dorsal ridge-scales do not exhibit traces 
of an acumination until beyond a considerable distance 
from the head. Beckles Coll. 
P. 6339-40. Two more imperfect, similarly abraded specimens; 
Hastings* Beckles Coll. 
P. 5129. Imperfect abraded head and portion of trunk, displaying 
the symphysis of the mandible and the lower extremity of 
the right clavicle; Horsham. The external head-bones 
are coarsely rugose and in part tuberculated; the oper¬ 
culum and suboperculum are rugose only, but seem to 
have been much abraded. The ascending process of the 
