NOTE ON FISH EEMAINS. 35 



from loose and weathered blocks, lying on the bea-ch, and 

 at the only place near which I found these blocks the cliff 

 is rather high ; and since the lower part is crumbly and 

 unsafe, I could not climb up to trace the bed. Further 

 along the coast I have been unable to find it, and therefore 

 cannot tell its position in the series. The place where I 

 found these blocks is about 200 yards to the west of the 

 houses just beyond the large indentation in the coast 

 formed by a little streamlet. I found, however, one scale 

 of Bothriolepis in a bed of very fine dark red sandstone in 

 situ, and low down on the coast line close under the Beach 

 Hotel. In this stratum there were two thin layers of very 

 fragmentary remains ; this is, I believe, the bed reported on 

 in the previous volume. 



The remains found in the loose blocks are, as determined 

 by Mr. A. Smith Woodward : (1) Glyptopomus scales ; (2) 

 Bothriolepis, probably portions of arm and plate with 

 scales; (3) Conchodus tooth (probably) ; (4) &eraspis scale 

 (probably) ; (5) Rhizodont tooth and scale ; (6) Holoptychius 

 scale. 



In addition to these there were numerous fragments 

 which were too imperfect for Mr. Woodward to determine. 

 Of these remains, perhaps the most interesting are Glypto- 

 pomus and Conchodus. In a letter on the subject of these 

 remains, Mr. Woodward says : " I think you have discovered 

 for the first time in England scales of Glyptopomus, and 

 a fossil which seems to be a tooth of Conchodus." So far as 

 the locality is concerned, I believe that all the genera, 

 except Holoptychius, are new to Portishead. 



I have pleasure in tendering my best thanks to Mr. Smith 

 Woodward for his kindness in determining these specimens. 



