285 



HOLO. 





Holoptychius nobilissimus. A^assiz {Hoi, americanus ?) 



^' ^^MgM^^^^^ J- Hall, 

 X ^^^i^p^sm^^ie^^i^ft pages 



281, 282. 

 figs. 130,' 

 2,3 and 4 

 fig. 131. 

 Oatskill 

 forma- 

 tion./X- 

 (131 is a 

 jaw; 130, 

 ^ 2, 3, are 

 scales; 

 130, 4 is a fragment water- worn.) 

 { See Agassiz, Mon. Poissons fossiles. 

 1845.) See Hall, Geol. 4th district 

 N. Y. plate 3.)— Claypole's list of 

 Perry Co. fossils, preface to F2, XV. 

 — Chemung Catskill leds, VIII-IX, 

 I give on p. 284 a restoration of this 

 Devonian fish by Huxley from Zit- 

 tel's Handbuch, Vol. 3, page 179, 

 fig. 184.— In Perry Co., Pa., Claypole 

 collected it on the hill top west of 

 Newport in Chemung- Catskill pas- 

 sage beds (Spec. 26-2) ; and at Lin- 

 ton's hill, W. of King's mill, in the 

 same beds (Spec. 114-3, two) VIII- 

 IX, White collected it in Columbia 

 Co., Pa., N. of Bloom, and 4 m. W. 

 of Shickshinny, in Catskill strata, 

 (Spec. 98-1.) IX,— hX Orange ville. 

 Col. Co., 1000' above top of Chemung 

 (G7, 217) or lowest red bed of F7//-7X(p.287) ; teeth, scales, 

 hones, in bed 54 of Catawissa section at base of Catskill (pp. 

 54, 59, 60, 238)— /X— In the northern tier of counties, in the 

 red beds (above Hall's uppermost Chemung shales holding Spi- 

 rifercB, Strophomenm and Atrypce, but with no such shells,) 

 thousands of fish bones and scales are visible as white spots on 



