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America. Herr Klebs's examination of the amber MoUusca 

 produced a similar result, and in this case Eastern Asiatic 

 types were also found. There is, however, nothing- at all sur- 

 prising in this — it was only to be expected ; for relations have 

 long been known to exist between the fauna and flora of North 

 America and Eastern Asia on the one hand and between this 

 and our Central European Tertiary fauna and flora on the other. 

 Herr Klebs instances the tuberculated Uaios, the Paludinae, 

 &c. Still moie striking would be this agreement if the at 

 present merely provisional assignment of the above-mentioned 

 lizard to the immediate neighbourhood of Knemidophorus 

 should be contirmed upon closer examination. The works of 

 Caspary and Conwenz on the flora of amber also lead mainly 

 to the same result. 



Herr Klebs concludes by remarking that, with the excep- 

 tion of the Psocidae and Gasteropoda, some fifty specimens in 

 all, no portion of the amber fauna has as yet been exhaustively 

 worked out ; and he appeals to entomological specialists in 

 particular to put themselves in communication with him, in 

 order that the study of the rich material which he has 

 amassed may be undertaken in a manner befitting its 

 importance. 



LXI. — Observations on some Fossil Fishes from the Lower 

 Carboniferous Rocks of Eskdale^ Dumfriesshire. By K. H. 

 Teaquaik, M.D., F.R.S. 



Since the publication of the first part of my " Report " on the 

 fossil fishes obtained by the Geological Survey of Scotland in 

 Eskdale and Liddesdaie a considerable quantity of new mate- 

 rial has been collected in this district, as well by the Survey as 

 also by Mr. Jex, collector to Mr. Damon, of Weymouth, and 

 by Mr. T. Stock and others. Prior to the publication of a 

 second part of the " Report," I propose in the present instance 

 to make a few remarks on some of the specimens which were 

 procured from the late Mr. Robert Damon for the Edinburgh 

 Museum of Science and Art. 



Acanthodes nitidus, A. S. Woodward. 

 Characterized by having the ventral spines more posteriorly 

 situated than in other Carboniferous species of the genus. I 

 had intended naming this species, but as my friend Mr. A. 

 Smith Woodward informs me that he had independently diag- 

 nosed and named it in the second part of his ' Catalogue of 

 the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum,' now in the press, 

 I have pleasure in adopting his name. 



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