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Miscellaneous . 
. the investigation, and is illustrated by ten quarto plates. An inde- 
terminable Selachian fish and an imperfectly-preserved Dipnoan are 
not of much interest ; but the latter seems to indicate a new genus 
and species, Gosfordia truncata , characterized by its very small 
head, laterally compressed body, and minute striated scales. The 
Paheoniscid genus Myriolepis is more completely defined than was 
possible in the original description ; and the fish is compared with 
the so-called Thrissonotus Colei from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis. 
A new species, Myriolepis latus , with larger scales than the type, is 
also added. A new genus and species of Palaeoniscidse, Apateolepis 
australis , is remarkable for the extreme tenuity of the squamation, 
which is usually destroyed, except on the upper caudal lobe. The 
family of Catopteridse is instituted for the reception of Catopterus 
and Dictyopyge , and placed near the Palseoniscidse on account of the 
fact that the endoskeletal supports of the median fins are fewer in 
number than the apposed rays. Catopterus is not known in the 
Hawkesbury Reds, but of Dictyopyge there are three new species, 
D. symmetrica , D. illustrans , and D . robusta . Close to the Cato- 
pteridee is placed the family of Belonorhynchidae, in which the same 
non-correspondence of the median fin-supports and dermal rays is 
conspicuous. Two new species of BelonorhyncJius — B. gigas and B. 
gracilis — are described at length, and add much to previous know- 
ledge of the genus. Of the typically Triassic fish, Semionotus , there 
are imperfect indications of two species, named S. australis and S. 
tenuis . A new genus, intermediate between Semionotus and Dapedius, 
is termed Pristisomus , having the three species P. gracilis , latus , and 
crassus , and much new information is added concerning the exo- 
skeleton of the allied genus Cleiihrolepis , of which an outline-resto- 
ration is given. The Pholidophoridse are represented by a small 
species of Pholidophorus , appropriately named P . gregarius ; while a 
small, short, and stout fish with three series of deep flank-scales is 
described as Peltopleurus (?) ditbius. Genera of the Leptolepis type 
are entirely wanting ; and, as a whole, the fauna under considera- 
tion seems to be most nearly paralleled by that of the Keuper of 
Europe. 
Is Asterias tenuispinis, Lamp ., a (i British 99 Species ? 
There is in the British Museum collection an example of Asterias 
tenuispinis , Lamk., which is, with a query, stated to have come from 
Lyme Regis ; it was presented to the Trustees in 18e56 by the late 
Lord Enniskillen. The only writer who, to my knowledge, has 
reported the English coast as one of the habitats of this species is 
Dr. Gray (Synop. Starf. 1866, p. 1), but as he did not always (cf. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1841, vi. p. 179) distinguish between this 
species and A. glacialis , which is undoubtedly British, his evidence 
is not unimpeachable. Can any naturalist acquainted with the 
British fauna tell me that he has found this species on our shores ? 
From its known area of distribution one might well have done so. 
F. Jeffrey Bell. 
British Museum (Natural History), 
Cromwell Road, S.W. 
