348 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



town: the quarrj^ is in the side of a mountain, and is about three hundred yards 

 higher than high-water mark, and about two miles from the sea. When the 

 mason struck it with his hammer, it spHt in two, and discovered the exact por- 

 traiture of a fish (on each stone) which we call an old wife.' 



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That which is chiefly interesting to note in regard to this specimen, which 

 clearly belongs to a new species, is that its position in the line of evolutionary pro- 

 gression is intermediate between the two other known fossil forms, M. rhombea 

 and M. oblonga. The fact that these two are both from an upper Eocene horizon 

 furnishes additional evidence in support of the view of Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan 

 and others that the fossiliferous strata of Antigua are of early Tertiary age. In- 

 deed, all thie data that are now available favor a correlation of these beds with the 



Upper Eocene. 



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Mr. Eastman also calls attention in his manuscript to the fact that two other 

 species of fossil fishes from the West Indies have been discovered, both of which 

 appear to have eluded the notice of some recent writers and catalogers. They are : 

 Aetohatis poeyi Castro, Anales Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., Vol. Ill, 1873, p. 193, from 



the Tertiary of Cuba; and 

 Zebrasoma deani Hussakof, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXIII, 1907, pp. 



125-6. 



The latter is "the first fossil species known to be referable to the genus Zebra- 

 soma Swainson," cf. Hussakof. I.e. 



INDEX OF GENERA. 



Page. Page. 



Amphistium 330 Odonteus 338 



Cyclopoma 339 Pterygocephalus 343 



Ductor 332 Pygseus 333 



Dules 340 Rhamphosus 324 



Eobothus nov 328 Rhombus 328 



Eocottus 342 Sparnodus 335 



Eolabroides nov 330 Symphodus ' . . . 336 



Ephippus 334 Toxotes 337 



Gillidia nov 345 Trygon 316 



Gobius 344 Urosphen 325 



Holocentrus 339 Zanclus 333 



Mene 346 Zebrasoma 348 



