496 B. F. Harrison— Rainfall in Wallingford, Conn. 
Cheirolepis Canadensis, nov. sp. 
Four exquisitely preserved specimens, two of which are nearly 
perfect, of a large Cheirolepis which resembles the CO. macroceph- 
alus of McCoy and the C. Cumingice of Agassiz i in the size, con- 
tour ye sculpture of the scales of the bo Y. and fins, but which 
short interval and from the anal by a much longer one. In 
macrocephalus, on the other hand, the ventrals are “represented by 
cCoy as being nearer to the anal than they are to the pectorals, 
while in C. Cuming gie, according to Hugh Miller, “the large pec- 
torals almost encroach on the ventrals and the ventrals on the 
anal fin. 
A more detailed bgt anil of these species ein be found in 
the current number of the “ Canadian Naturalist.” 
The existence of fossil plants as well as of ich remains in the 
ota shales and sandstones of Scaumenac Bay was noticed 
braham Gesner in 1842, and from these rocks Mr. Foord 
also attained four species of ferns, which have recently been re- 
ported on by Principal Dawson. 
The analogies between the fossil fauna of the fish-bearing beds 
of Scaumenac Bay and that of the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland 
aud Russia are very striking. The Pterichthys Canadensis is still 
peeeuty distinct from the Bothriolepis ornata of Europe; the 
fragments of a Diplacanthus obtained by Mr. Foord have appar- 
ently much the same characters as the D. striatus of Agassiz, and 
the genus Phaneropleuron can now be shown to oceur in the De- 
vonian rocks of Canada os bs as in those of Scotland. Husthe- 
nopteron has many features in common with Tristichopterus ; one 
species of Glyptolepis honk Scuntrbnne Bay seems to be identical 
ith the G. microlepidotus of Agassiz, from Lethen Bar, while 
tha other bears a general resemblance to the G. de, eptopterus of the 
same author; and lastly, Chei ae Canadensis is certainly very 
closely allied to two Scotch species 
1ese Devonian rocks at t Scaumenac may have been of fresh- 
water or estuarine origin, for no traces of any marine invertebrata 
have yet been detected in any of them and the fossil fishes which 
they contain are rae tia found associated with land plants. 
Montreal, April 7th, 1881 
Art. LXL—On the Rain-Fall in Wallingford, chee ate 
between 1856 and 1881; Record kept by B. F. iLar 
Tue following table gives the ari in inches of rain and 
melted snow for each month of each year. The depth of snow in 
the winter months is also given. The record extends from April, 
1856 to December, 1880, inclusive, with, however, the exception 
* Vol. x, new series. 
