On Fossil Fishes from South Africa. 393 
LVIl.—Further Notes on Fossil Fishes from the Karoo 
Somme of South Africa. By A. Smita Woopwarp, 
[Plate XVII.] 
A LIST of all the known fossil fishes from the Karoo formation 
of South Africa was given in these pages four years ago*, 
and since that time only one additional species seems to have 
been recorded f. It is gratifying now to be able to extend 
the list by adding no less than four new forms; and the 
following brief descriptions are published in the hope that 
they may lead to the discovery of more satisfactory specimens 
than any of those at present available. For this new evidence 
the writer is indebted to David Draper, Esq., of Newcastle, 
Natal, and to Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., the former 
having brought to Europe for determination the species 
numbered 1 and 4, the latter having discovered those num- 
bered 2 and 3 during his visit to Cape Colony a few years ago. 
1. Dictyopyge (?) Draperi, sp. n. 
(Ply XVII. tie: 1.) 
Type.—The type and only known specimen of this species 
is shown of the natural size in the accompanying Pl. XVII. 
fig. 1. Apart from some fracturing, it is complete and scarcely 
distorted as far as the caudal pedicle ; but the caudal fin, the 
most important feature in the fish, is unfortunately wanting. 
It is preserved in the National Museum, Bloemfontein, Orange 
Free State. 
Description.—The proportions of the fish indicated in the 
fizure are probably almost natural, the length of the head with 
opercular apparatus being about equal to the maximum depth 
of the trunk and contained perhaps five times in the total 
length. The head is much fractured, but impressions of the 
cranial bones seem to exhibit traces of a rugose ornament, 
and the hinder portion of the mandible is distinctly marked 
with longitudinal striations. ‘The orbit must have been very 
large, and the maxilla is shaped as in Paleoniscidee, with a 
deep posterior plate and a downward inflexion of the postero- 
inferior angle. ‘here are some remains of conical teeth of 
* A. Smith Woodward, “On Atherstonia,” Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
[6] vol. iv. (1889), p. 242. 
+ Acrolepis (2) digitata, Smith Woodward, Cat, Foss. Fishes Brit. 
Mus. pt. ii. (1891), p. 508, pl. xv. fig. 4. 
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