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arc called fishes' eyes by the peasants who collect 

 fossils from these shores.* Detached scales and 

 teeth of two species of Lepidotus occur in most 

 localities of the Wealden deposits. -j- I found a 

 portion of an intermaxillary bone with several 

 teeth, and a group of ten scales of the Lepidotus 

 Fittoni, in the cliff to the east of Brook Chine. 



* Figures of the scales and teeth of one species of Lepidotus of the 

 Wealden are given in Medals of Creation, p. 438, PI. VI. fig. 10. 



t It is rare to meet with any considerable number of scales in contact; 

 but a few specimens were discovered in Tilgate Forest, exhibiting part of 

 the cranium, the opercula of the gills, the pectoral and dorsal fins, and large 

 masses of scales. These are now in the British Museum, in the room appro- 

 priated to Fossil Fishes. 



