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(iv.) Tynet Burn. 



P. 3298. Type specimen of Osteolepis major. Ennislcillen Coll. 



P. 815. Two somewhat larger, imperfect fishes, the second wanting 

 the extremity of the tail. Egerton Coll. 



35782. Caudal region of a similar fish. Purchased, 1860. 



37385. Eemains of the head, squamation, and iins of a large 

 individual. Purchased, 1863. 



(v.) Gamrie. 



28503-4. Type specimens of Osteolepis arenata, the second figured 

 by Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pi. ii. d. fig. 1, the counter- 

 part of the first figured, ibid. pi. ii. d. fig. 3. 



Presented by Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.B.,1S53. 



47871. Small specimen, wanting the first dorsal fin. 



Purchased, 1877. 



P. 3297. Imperfect small specimen. Enniskillen Coll. 



Osteolepis microlepidotus, Pander. 



(?) 1829. Osteolepis micro lepidotus, A. Valenciennes, Trans. Geol. Soc. 



[2] vol. iii. p. 144. 

 1860. Osteolepis microlepidotus, C. H. Pander (non Agassiz), Sauro- 



dipt., Dendrodont. &c. devon. Syst. p. 10, and passim, pi. i. figs. 



1-6, 8-10, pi. ii. figs. 1, 3-5, 10-14. 

 1888. Osteolepis microlepidotus, K. H. Traquair, Geol. Mag. [3] vol. v. 



p. 516. 

 1890. Osteolepis microlepidotus, R. H. Traquair, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



[6] vol. vi. p. 484. 



Type. Imperfect fishes ; Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. 

 Petersburg. 



A small species, attaining a maximum length of about 0*15, and 

 differing from O. macrolepidotus in the relatively broader form of 

 the cranial shield and the less acute angle of the V-shaped impres- 

 sion of the sensory canal behind the pineal foramen. 



Form. Sf Loc. Lower Old Red Sandstone : Caithness. 



33144-47. Four imperfect specimens ; Thurso. Purchased, 1857. 



33158-62. Four imperfect specimens, the first in counterpart; 

 Thurso. Purchased, 1857. 



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