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found in the quarries at Burdiehouse, in Bdinburghsliire; and the collection of the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland contains fragments from Raw Camps, near Midcalder, in 

 the same county. In Pifeshire it has been found at Burntisland (Grange Quarry) and 

 at Kingscraig, and I am also indebted to Mr. Graham Yooll, of Pittenweein, for a 

 specimen apparently belonging to the same species, but not very perfect as regards the 

 fins, from the shale works at Pitcorthie, near Anstruther. Dr. Paterson mentions it as 

 occurring in the Wardie fish-beds ; ^ possibly, however, he has mistaken for it the closely 

 allied E. intermedius, Traq., as 1 have found no evidence of its presence in any of the 

 collections of Wardie fishes which I have examined. In Messrs. Young, Armstrong, and 

 Robertson's Catalogue of the Western Scottish Fossils ' it is recorded as having been 

 found in ironstone of the Carboniferous and Limestone series at Fossil, in Lanarkshire, 

 in the Coal-measures (roof shale of the Drumgray Coal) at Carluke, but I have not 

 myself seen any specimen from the west of Scotland which I could with certainty refer 

 to the species under consideration. Professor Young, in his appendix to the Report of 

 the Committee on the Distribution of the Vertebrate Remains from the North Stafford- 

 shire Coal-field,^ states that " a small number of specimens belong to PalcBoniscus 

 atriolatus or P. Robisoni." Mr. Ward, of Longton, well known as a most energetic 

 collector of Carboniferous fishes, has, however, convinced himself " that Dr. Young was 

 in error in placing these species on the list of species of these Coal-measures ; " * and for 

 my own part I must own that after a very careful examination of Mr. Ward's enormous 

 collection of North Staffordshire Palseoniscidoe, as well as of those from the same district 

 in the Museum of Practical Geology, I have failed to find any trace of either of theuj. 



As regards its alleged occurrence at Vise, in Belgium,^ and at Lobejiin, near Halle,® 

 having seen both the specimens in question, I am prepared to state pretty strongly that 

 neither of them belongs to the Palceoniscus striolatus of Agassiz. Professor De Koninck 

 having very kindly forwarded to me the supposed Belgian example, I found that it 

 belonged in reality to Paltsoniscus macropomus, Agass., a fish common in the limestone con- 

 cretions occurring in the Permian strata of Ilmenau, in Thuringia, which locality is also 

 further indicated both by the nature of the matrix and the peculiar mode of mineralisa- 



' " On the Fossil Organic Eemains found ia the Coal Formatioa at AVardie," ' Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ.,' xxiii, 1837. 



2 ' Catalogue of the Western Scottish Fossils ' (British Association Guide Books), Glasgow, 

 1876, p. 64. See also Hunter's ' PaliBoutology of the Carboniferous Strata of the "West of Scotland,' 

 Carluke, 1875, p. 30. 



3 ' British Assoc. Eeports,' xxxv (1865), p. 317. 



* North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, Annual Addresses, Papers, etc., Haulej, 1875, 

 p. 238. 



5 ' Description des Animaux Fossiles qui se trouvent dans le Terrain carbonifere de Belgique,* 

 Liege, 1842-4, p. 610, pi. liv, figs. 1 a, b. 



^ In Germar's ' Versteinerungen von "Wettin und Lobejiin,' the fish remains described by Giebel, 

 Halle, 1849, p. 79, pi. xxx, fig. 12. 

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