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« per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hio carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pietum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At tos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosi8 e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



iV. Purtheiiii.Giuiiiiettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 79. JULY 1894. 



I. — n Lepidosiren paradoxa, Fitzinger, and Lepidosiren 

 articulata, sp. n.,from Paraguay. By E. EhlerS*. 



In November 1893 Dr. J. Bohls had already reported to me 

 from Ascension the discovery of Lepidosiren, and it is to his 

 kindness that I am indebted for the opportunity of being able 

 to scrutinize a considerable number of this fish, which israre 

 in our collections, and to submit some specimens of it to 

 examination. In the following pages I give a provisional 

 account of the observations which I have made in so doing, 

 reserving to myself the right of making a further communi- 

 cation on the completion of the investigations which have 

 been commenced f. 



* Translated from the 'Nachrichten der k. Gesellschaft der Wissen- 

 schaften zu Gottinsen,' 1894, no. 2 : from an advance copy. The paper 

 was submitted at a meeting of the Society held March 10, 1894. 



t A synopsis of the literature on the subject of Lepidosiren paradoxa, 

 Fitz., has been given by G. Baur (" Ueber Lepidosiren paradoxa, Fitz- 

 inoer," Zool. Jahrbiicher, Bd. ii. 1887, p. 575). I may supplement this 

 by pointing out that, in the list of papers furnished by this author, the 

 titles given under the numbers 18 and 19 belong to one and the same 

 memoir ; they are the general and special titles of a paper by Castelnau 

 which was not accessible to Baur. 



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