Pal^. 



586 



1873, page 345, plate 38, figs. 1, la, 16, scales. (Described first 

 as EloniGhthys peltigerus, N. in Proc. Acad. U. 8., Phila.; then 

 as PalmonisGus peltigerus^ N. in Geol. Sur. 111., Vol. 2, p. 17.) 

 See the middle row of four large oval ornamented scales run- 

 ning from dorsal fin forward half way to the headplate ; and a 

 similar row from dorsal fin backwards, turning into large striated 

 fulcra protecting the end of the backbone. A beautiful fish, 

 once living in the lagoons of the coal-marshes, found in Illinois? 

 Indiana, Ohio, and New Brunswick, Canada, (if 0. T. Jack- 

 son's specimen from Albert mine be this species.) Belongs to 

 the same group of carboniferous fishes as the English;P. decorus^ 

 Egerton. Cannel coal bed at Linton, O., at Oanfi'eld, O. and 

 Fulton Co., 111.— X///. 



PalsDophonus nuncius. 



Thorell and Lindstrom. The 

 Swedish Upper Silurian Scor- 

 pion, found in 1884, about the 

 same time as the Scotch D. 

 Sil. (Ludlow) scorpion, and 

 two years later than the New 

 York (Waterville) Lower 

 Helderberg scorpion (Pro- 

 scorpius osborni,Whitfield, 

 described 1885) 1882. ZittePs 

 Handbuch,1885, Vol. 2, page 



See Proscorpius 



738, fig. 915. (copied; nat si^e.) VL 



Palaeophonus osborni, Whitfield. 

 osborni. (Science, Vol. 6, 1885, p. 88.) 



Palaeophycus beverlyensis. Dawson. Geological his- 



30, fig. 8, a supposed 

 Cambrian seaweed 

 (fucoid,) but probably a 

 mould of the track of 

 some animal. — Cambri- 

 an rocks. C. 



