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General Wotes. 
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 
American Devonian Fishes found in Belgium.—An exam- 
ination of M. Lohest’s collection of Devonian fishes at Liege by Mr. 
Newberry has brought to light the following interesting facts: 
Among the specimens collected in the macignos of Ouppet near the 
upper part of the sands of Condroz, Mr. Newberry recognized the 
bony plates of the head of a fish of the genus Dinichthys, which, until 
now, was found only in America. The genus Dinichthys was created 
by Newberry for a gigantic fish, with a head a meter in length, having 
the body like that of Coccosteus covered with bony plates. ` 
Of the specimens recognized by Newberry one was referred to D. 
pustulosus, while the others seemed to- be closely allied to the Ameri- 
can species, D. terrilli. 
These fossils were found at Ouppet in a calcareous macigno rock, 
associated with Spirifer disjunctus and also with the palatine teeth of 
Dipnoans, of which two species, Dipterus flabelliformis and D. nelsonii, 
are American types. ; 
The paleontological interest of the presence of Dinichthys in the 
Devonian of Belgium is increased by the fact that in America these 
huge creatures are found in a rock analogous to that of Ouppet, asso- 
ciated with the same Spirifer and the same Dipterus. 
In America, also, these fossils are found in a Chemung stratum 
which is separated from the Lower Carboniferous by a bed of Catskill 
sandstone containing Holoptychius americanus, a species related to the 
Holoptychius of the famennien of Belgium. 
Another Devonian fish described by M. Lohest and referred by him 
to the genus Bothriolepis, was found near Chévremont. The fossil 
shows the head, the swimming organs, and the dorsal plates. It 
appears to be closely related to B. canadensis from the Upper Devon- 
ian of Scammenac Bay, Canada. : 
The discovery in the sands of Condroz of species closely related, if 
not identical, with American species, confirms the view now generally 
adopted as to the famennien age of the Chemung and Catskill beds.— 
Ann. Soc. Geol. de Belgique, Tome xvi. 
