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New Brunswick figured but not named by him,* seem to be referable 
to Phadinichthys , as is possibly also the case with his Palceoniscus 
Albertii , though I regret that I have not seen any specimens of the 
latter sufficiently perfect to enable me to come to a definite conclu- 
sion as to whether or not it may belong to still another genus — 
most certainly, however, it is not a “ Palceoniscus ” in the sense in 
which that term ought now to be restricted. 
Rliadinichthys ornatissimus, Agass. sp. 
Palceoniscus ornatissimus (pars), Agassiz, “Poissons Foss.” vol. ii. pt. ii. 
pp. 92-93 (1835); “Atlas,” vol. ii. pi. 10a, fig. 6, but not figs. 5 and 7. 
“ Palceoniscus ” ornatissimus was described by Agassiz from three 
specimens, all of which are figured in the “Poissons Fossiles.” 
Two of these from Burdiehouse are in the collection of the Boyal 
Society of Edinburgh ; they are in a very bad state of preserva- 
tion, nevertheless enough is seen of their structure to convince 
me that they belong to two different species. The original of fig. 
5, tab. 10a (“ Atlas,” vol. ii.), seems to me to be only a peculiarly 
crushed specimen of Elonichthys Robisoni. The other, represented 
in fig. 6, is of larger dimensions, and though the fins are very 
imperfectly shown, yet, from the general form of the body, and 
from the sculpture of the scales and cranial bones, I have no hesita- 
tion in identifying with it a number of specimens of a fish, which is 
not uncommon in the rocks of the calciferous sandstone series of 
the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. The specimen represented in 
fig. 7 of the same plate of Agassiz’s work does not seem to me to 
belong to the same species, and, unfortunately, there seems now to 
be little hope of tracing the original to its present possessor, as it 
belonged to the late Mr Jamieson Torrie, whose collection was, 
after his death many years ago, sold by public auction and dispersed. 
As type of “ ornatissimus ” we are therefore justified in taking the 
original of fig. 6 of the plate referred to. 
Description. — The length of the type specimen, which is so bent 
round that the tip of the tail nearly touches the snout, is 5 inches ; 
doubtless, its original length was greater, previous to the strange 
contortion which has thus affected its form. It is, nevertheless, 
small, the most perfect specimen in the Hugh Miller Collection 
* Report on the Albert Coal* Mine, New Brunswick. 
