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THE FISHES OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Leptolepis sprattifcyi'mis (?) * 
Has occurred in the Lower Lias (planorbis zone), Barrow-on-Soar, according 
to jMr. H. E. Quilter.t Mr. Woodward, however, deletes this entirely, and it is, 
therefore, if not attributable to the preceding species, probably derived through 
Heterolepidotus serrulatus ! See p. 194. 
Family MUEzENID^. 
EEL. Aoiguilla vulgaris, Fleming. 
Commonly distributed in both counties. 
BROAD-NOSED EEL. Anguilla latirostris (Risso). 
“ Grig.” 
May occnr, but Gunther, in his “ Introduction to the Study of Fishes ” 
(p. 673), says this species prefers the neighbourhood of the sea to distant 
inland waters ; the “ Broad-nosed ” Eel reported to me is probably, therefore, 
only a variety of the preceding, and not the true A. latirostris. 
Sub-order H0L08TEI. 
Family P Y C N 0 D 0 N T I D ^ . 
Mesodon liassicus (Egerton). 
In the ‘Memoirs of the Geological Survey’ (Fishes, 1855), Decade VIII., 
it is recorded that “ this interesting specimen (figured on PI. X.) was brought 
to light during the operation of transferring the fine collection of fossil fishes 
in the British Museum, from the cases in Room 6, to their new position in 
Room 2. It is snpposed to have been derived from the Lias of Barrow-on-Soar, 
and, although far from perfect, is, nevertheless, sufficiently so to leave no doubt 
as to its natural affinities.” 
The species is also recorded from Barrow, by Jno. Morris, F.G.S., in his 
‘Catalogue of British Fossils,’ 1854, p. 342. 
Family PHOLIDOPHOEID^. 
PholidopJiorus nitidus (Egerton). 
The British Museum possesses three specimens, presented by Mr. Ed. 
Wilson, F.G.S., Curator of the Bristol Museum, obtained by him from the 
Rhaetic Paper-Shales of Wigston, and fnlly described by Mr. A. S. Woodward. J 
* Leptolepis sprattiformis (Blainville), has as yet occurred only in the Solenhofen beds, 
t “ The Lower Lias of Leicestershire,” ‘ Geol. Mag.’, dec. hi., vol. hi., p. 61. 
I ‘ Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc.,’ April, 1889, pp. 22-3 
