470 ^VKLLBURN : FISH FAUNA OF THE PENDLESIDE LIMESTONES. 
Family CoELACANXHiDyE. 
Genus Coelacanthus Agassiz, 1844. 
CCELACANTHUS HINDI Sp. nov. 
Type : Portion of fish, author's col. 
The specimen shows several of the bones of the head and the 
anterior portion of the body. Of the head bones most are seen from 
the inner surface, but they appear to have been ornamented with 
ridges, which run more or less parallel to the borders of the bones. 
On the operculum — which is half as high as broad — there is an in- 
dication of faint, more irregular ridges and granulation between 
the principal ridges, whilst on the jugular plates the ridges appear 
to have run in a fairly regular manner. The latter element (jugular) 
gradually tapers anteriorily to a fine point. Behind the operculum 
are a number of long slender rays, which are probably the remains 
of the pectoral fin. Further back are a number of neural spines, 
which show the usual characters of Coelacanthus. Well-marked 
and characteristic branchio-stegal rays (detached) are also shown. 
The body is covered with large, much rounded scales, the posterior 
or exposed portion of which is ornamented in a highly characteristic 
manner, with strongly marked ganoine coated ridges, which run 
in a very regular manner in half circles parallel to the rounded posterior 
border. 
Remarks : — The form and very striking ornamentation of the 
scales are so dissimilar to that of any known coelacanth that I treat 
the fish as new, and propose the specific name Hindi, after Dr. 
Wheelton Hind, F.G.S., of Stoke-on-Trent, on account of the very 
valuable work which he has accomplished in respect to the Pendleside 
Limestones. Mr. J. Ward, F.G.S., who has seen the specimen, 
also regards it as new. 
Loc: Bank of River Hamps, near Waterhouses, Staffs. 
Family Pal^oniscid.e. 
Genus Elonichthys Giebel, 1848. 
Elonichthys obliquus Wellburn. 
There are many more or less imperfect specimens of this fish 
in the author's collection, but as the type was found in the Mill- 
