PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
vol. ix. 1876-77. No. 97. 
Ninety-Fourth Session. 
Monday , 1 5th January 1877. 
Sir ’WILLIAM THOMSON, President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Communication from the President, relative to the 
Administration of the Government Fund of £4000. 
2. On New and Little-known Fossil Fishes from the Edin- 
burgh District. No. II. By R. H. Traquair, M.D., 
F.G.S. 
Genus Elonichthys , Giebel, 1848. 
Amblypterus (pars), Agassiz. 
Palceoniscus (pars), Agassiz. 
Pygopterus (pars), Agassiz. 
Body fusiform, sometimes rather deep; median fins large, the 
caudal deeply cleft, inequilobate ; dorsal and anal triangular, acu- 
minate, the dorsal situated nearly opposite the interval between the 
ventrals and the anal ; base of ventrals not extended ; pectoral rays 
articulated (except a varying amount of the commencement of the 
principal ones). Fin rays ganoid, closely set, striated ; fulcra 
closely set, minute. Scales sculptured, of moderate size, rhom- 
boidal, their posterior borders frequently denticulated or serrated ; 
the anterior overlapped area very narrow, reduced to a mere mar- 
gin. Suspensorium very oblique ; gape extensive ; operculum well 
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