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[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circiini vitreos consiclite fontea: 

 Polliee virgineo teneros hie oarpite (lores: 

 Floribus et pietum, divae, replete canistrura. 

 At vos, o Nvmphte Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite musoosis e rnpibaa, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conehylia succo." 



N.Parthetiii Giannettusi, Bel. 1. 



No. 25. JANUARY 1910. 



I. — On some Permo-Carboniferous Fishes from Madagascar. 

 By A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., of the British 

 Museum. 



[Plate I. figs. 1-5.] 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Mr. George G. Dixon has recently presented to the British 

 Museum a collection of nodules containing fossil fishes, 

 which he obtained from a shaly formation on the right bank 

 of the Mahavavy River, opposite the village of Andogozo, 

 near the extreme north-west coast of Madagascar. These 

 specimens are of much interest, because they clearly belong to 

 Upper Palseozoic types which have not hitherto been described 

 from Madagascar"* ; and they are associated with obscure 

 traces of small freshwater shells, which Mr. R. Bullen Newton 

 determines to be new. The shape of each nodule, as usual, 

 depends on the contour of the contained fish, but prominent 

 slender portions, such as parts of the caudal fin and the 



* The occurrence of Permian Reptiles, Fishes, and Plants in Madaga- 

 scar has been only briefly recorded by M. Boule, ' Comptes Rendus,' 

 vol. cxlvi. (1908), p. 502. 



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