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taining a small coiled fish, tolerably well preserved ; 

 Lebach, Khenish Prussia. Purchased, 1866. 



P. 1324, P. 4477. Nodule with an imperfect fish resembling that 

 figured by Agassiz, torn. cit. pi. i. fig. 1 ; Lebach. 



Egerton and Ennislcillen Colls. 



P. 1324 a, P. 3249. Specimen in a large nodule, not coiled, and 

 only slightly crushed ; Lebach. In the region of the head 

 are remains of the circumorbital plates and branchial 

 arches ; and the pectoral, pelvic, and dorsal fin-spines are 

 more or less imperfectly preserved. 



Egerton and Ennislcillen Colls. 



P. 4477 a. Half of nodule containing the head and the greater 

 portion of the coiled-up trunk ; Lebach. Some of the 

 circumorbital plates and remains of the granular dermal 

 covering of the head are preserved : fragments of branchial 

 arches occur below and behind the head ; and all the fin- 

 spines are shown, at least in part. Ennislcillen Coll. 



P. 6192. Five small specimens, one being in counterpart; Lebach. 



Goldenberg Coll. 



P. 6192 a. Remains of head and branchial arches ; Lebach. 



Goldenberg Coll. 



33060, 33063. Five imperfect fishes, variously broken and distorted, 

 preserved in shale, and displaying all the principal cha- 

 racters of the species ; Klein Neundorf, near Lowenberg, 

 Silesia. Purchased, 1858. 



P. 1325. Four specimens in a similar state of preservation, but 

 mostly finer ; Klein Neundorf. Egerton Coll. 



P. 3248. Small specimen, wanting extremity of tail ; Klein Neundorf. 

 The sketch of the pectoral fin given in fig. 2 is chiefly 

 based upon this specimen. Ennislcillen Coll. 



38159. Caudal region of a very large fish, doubtfully of this species ; 

 Klein Neundorf. 



Presented by Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.B., 1864. 



Acanthodes rouvillei, Sauvage. 



1883. Acanthodes rouvillei, H. E. Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Geol. France, [3] 

 vol. xi. p. 475, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Type. Nearly complete fish. 



A small species closely allied to A. bronni. Body much elongated 



