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" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circilm vitreos considite fontes : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divas, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deas pelagi, et piugui conchylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 7. JULY 1848. 



I. — On some new Fossil Fish of the Carboniferotis Period. 

 By Frederick M^Coy, M.G.S. & N.H.S.D. &c * 



JVl. AGASSIZ, besides the few carboniferous fish he has figured 

 and described, gives a long list of manuscript names of fishes of 

 this formation in the 3rd vol. of his ' Poissous Fossiles/ but being 

 unaccompanied by any definitions or figures, it gives no informa- 

 tion of the characters of the species, nor even secures their pri- 

 ority to the author ; however, of the thirty unpublished species 

 which he there names from the carboniferous limestone of Ar- 

 magh, I have, through the kindness of Capt. Jones, R.N., M.P., 

 been enabled to study the original specimens, and become well- 

 acquainted with all except the CladacantJms paradoxus and Cri- 

 cacanthus Jonesii, of which I could learn nothing : admitting 

 those twenty-eight then as already established, I can state that 

 they are quite distinct from any of the following species. 



I have great pleasure in acknowledging my obligations to 

 Capt. Jones, not only for much valuable information on the 

 fishes of this period, and access to his collections both in London 

 and Dublin, but for the loan of many of the most interesting 

 species described below, which I was thus enabled to draw and 



* Read, and drawings of all the species exhibited, before the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, June 5th, 1848. 



Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist, Ser.2. Vol'ii. I 



