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On Fossil Fishes from Dumfriesshire. 
America. Herr Klebs’s examination of the amber Mollusca 
produced a similar result, and in this case Eastern Asiatic 
types were also found. There is, however, nothing at all sur- 
prising in this — it was only to be expected ; for relations have 
long been known to exist between the fauna and flora of North 
America and Eastern Asia on the one hand and between this 
and our Central European Tertiary fauna and flora on the other. 
Herr Klebs instances the tuberculated Unios , the Paludinae, 
&c. Still more striking would be this agreement if the at 
present merely provisional assignment of the above-mentioned 
lizard to the immediate neighbourhood of Knemidophorus 
should be confirmed upon closer examination. The works of 
Caspary and Conwenz on the flora of amber also lead mainly 
to the same result. 
Herr Klebs concludes by remarking that, with the excep- 
tion of the Psocidae and Gasteropoda, some fifty specimens in 
all, no portion of the amber fauna has as yet been exhaustively 
worked out ; and he appeals to entomological specialists in 
particular to put themselves in communication with him, in 
order that the study of the rich material which he has 
amassed may be undertaken in a manner befitting its 
importance. 
LXI. — Observations on some Fossil Fishes from the Lower 
Carboniferous Rocks of Fskdale, Dumfriesshire. By R. H. 
Traquaik, M.D., F.R.S. 
Since the publication of the first part of my u Report ” on the 
fossil fishes obtained by the Geological Survey of Scotland in 
Eskdale and Liddesdale a considerable quantity of new mate- 
rial has been collected in this district, as well by the Survey as 
also by Mr. Jex, collector to Mr. Damon, of Weymouth, and 
by Mr. T. Stock and others. Prior to the publication of a 
second part of the u Report,” I propose in the present instance 
to make a few remarks on some of the specimens which were 
procured from the late Mr. Robert Damon for the Edinburgh 
Museum of Science and Art. 
Acanthodes nitidus , A. S. Woodward. 
Characterized by having the ventral spines more posteriorly 
situated than in other Carboniferous species of the genus. I 
had intended naming this species, but as my friend Mr. A. 
Smith Woodward informs me that he had independently diag- 
nosed and named it in the second part of his i Catalogue of 
the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum,’ now in the press, 
I have pleasure in adopting his name. 
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