GANOIDEI. 
Pisces 11 
Sciiluter, C. Ueber Panzerfische aus dem rheinisch-westfialiscben 
Devon. Verb. Ver. Rheinl. xliv, Sitzunjsber. pp. 120-128. 
The following are described as new : — 
Geraspis, n. g., p. 120, for G. car hiatus, p. 120, Middle Devonian of 
Eifel, and C. hagenensis, p. 122, n. spp. 
Pteraspis rhenanus, n. sp., p. 125, Grauwacke, Rhenish Prussia. 
S 'caphaspis bonnensis , n. sp., p. 125, Lower Devonian, near Bonn. 
Drepanaspis gemiindenensis , n. sp., p. 126, Lower Devonian, Gemiinden. 
ACANTHODINI. 
Mesacanthus, n. g., for Acanthodes pusillus , Ag., peachii , Egert., and 
mitchelli , Egert. ; Traquair, Geol. Mag. (3) v, p. 511. 
Ghiracanlhus, Ag., and Diplacanthus , Ag. : notes by Traquair, t. c. 
p. 512. 
Rhadinacanthus , n. g., for Diplacanthus longispinus , Ag., id. 1. c. 
Ischnacanthus Powrie, is a valid genus ; id. 1. c. 
DIPNOI. 
Fritsch, A. Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permforma- 
tion Bohmens. Band n. Heft 3. (Pp. 66-92, pis. Ixxi-lxxx.) Die 
Lurchfische, Dipnoi, nebst Bemerkungen fiber Silurische und Devon- 
ische Lurchfische. Prague : 1888, 4 to. 
The following forms are described and figured : — 
Ctenodus obliquus , Hanc. & Atth. (= Ceratodus barrandei, Fritsch), 
p. 66, G. applanatus, Fritsch, p. 85, and C. trachylepis, n. sp., p. 85. 
Dipnoites perneri, n. g. & sp., for a cranial bone from the Upper Silurian 
of Prague, p. 86. 
Notes on Gompholepis panderi , Barr., p. 87, Palcedaphus insignis and 
devoniensis , Yan Ben. & De Kon., p. 88, Pliyllolepis concentricus, Ag., p. 89, 
and Archcconectcs pertusus, II. v. Mey., p. 90. 
Parker, W. N. Preliminary Note on the Anatomy and Physiology of 
Protopterus annectens. Nature, xxxix, pp. 19-21. 
Wiedersiieim, R. On the Torpid State of Protopterus. Rep. Brit. Ass. 
1887, pp. 738-740. 
Translation of the paper noticed in the preceding Record (p. 12), 
where it was inadvertently referred to the heading Polypteroidei. 
Protopterus annectens, Ow. : notes on habits in confinement ; Ed. 
IIeckel, Le Nat. x, p. 233, figs. 
Lepidosiren paradoxa, Fitz. ; record of the discovery of another speci- 
men ; Giglioli, Nature, xxxviii, p. 102 ; Howes, t. c. p. 126. 
Dipterus macropterus, n. sp. (foss.), Traquair, Geol. Mag. (3) v, p. 508, 
Lower Old Red Sandstone, Caithness. 
