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Remarks.—Evidently specifically new, these scales are doubtful as to genus, 
and I only refer them provisionally to Hurynotus on account of their general 
contour and aspect. 
Geological Position and Locality.—Tweeden Burn, Liddesdale, in the Cement- 
stone group of the Calciferous Sandstone series. Identical scales are seen on 
a portion of grey arenaceous shale from the Lower Carboniferous of Moyhee- 
land, Draperstown, Ireland, in the “Griffith Collection” belonging to the 
Science and Art Museum, Dublin, for an opportunity of examining which I am 
indebted to the courtesy of Dr STrEz, Director, and Dr Carte, Keeper of the 
Natural History Department of that Institution. 
EHurynotus, sp. indet. 
Among the specimens from Glencartholm is a small Hurynotus, deficient in 
the head and fore part of the body, as well as in the fins, except the dorsal 
and ventral, which are also somewhat imperfectly preserved. The scales are 
striato-punctate, and sharply serrated posteriorly. From the information 
afforded by this specimen, I hesitate either to pronounce it as new, or to 
identify it with any previously described species. 
Wardichthys, Traquair, 1875. 
(Traquair, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. xv. 1875, p. 262; Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 
vol. xxix. 1880, p. 361.) 
Wardichthys cyclosoma (*), Traquair. 
PLY. oe 2 
A few scales from Tweeden Burn, Liddesdale, and a small fragment of a 
fish from Glencartholm, Eskdale, display characters which I cannot at present 
distinguish from those of Wardichthys cyclosoma, from the Lower Carboniferous 
shales near Newhaven; in consequence, however, of the scantiness of these 
remains, I have appended a query to this determination, so far as the species is 
concerned. The fragment from Eskdale shows merely a small portion of the 
back and shoulder. 
[From Glencartholm there is also a specimen of what is apparently a new 
Platysomid fish, and which may possibly belong to the genus Wardichthys, or 
to some undescribed genus, but its state of preservation is so imperfect that, 
for the present, I abstain from bestowimg a name upon it. The specimen 
wants both head and fins, though a portion of the caudal body-prolongation is 
preserved ; it measures 34 inches in length, by 13 in depth. The shape is 
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