40 Pisces. 
V. PISCES. 
CROSSOPTERYGII. 
W. E. Collinge, Anat. Auz. xii, p. 87, remarks on Baur’s figures of the 
head and sensory canal system of Polypterus. Reply by Baur, 
t. c. p. 247. 
Polyplocodus leptognatJma , n. sp. (foss.), Traquair, in Harvie-Brown & 
Buckley, Vert. Fauna Moray Basin, ii, p. 255, pi. vii, figg. 1 & 2, 
Upper Devonian, Nairn, Scotland. 
DIPNOI. 
E. Ray Lankester discusses the external characters of Lepidosiren and 
Protopterus , and remarks on the supposed distinctions on which Lepi- 
dosiren articulatu was founded by Elders. Lepidosiren and Protop- 
terus aro figured side by side. Tr. Zool. Soc. London, xiv, p. 11, 
figg., pi. ii. 
B. F. Kingsbury writes on the lateral line system of sense-organs in 
Dipnoans ; Tr. Amer. micr. Soc. xvii, pp. 132-136, pi. v. 
On the fecae of Protopterus, with remarks on the helicoid coprolithes ; 
Vaillant, O.R. Ac. Sci. cxxii, p. 742. 
Lepidosiren paradoxa recorded from Marajo I., Lower Amazon, with 
remarks on the geographical distribution ; Goeldi, Boll. Mus. Para, 
i, p. 438, map. 
ARTHRODIRA. 
On the ancestry of the Upper Devonian Placoderms of Ohio; Claypole, 
Amer. Geol. xvii, p. 349. 
C. R. Eastman writes on the relations of certain body-plates in the 
Dinichthyids ; A mer. J. Sci. (4) ii, p. 4G. 
Dinichthys prentis-clarlci , n. sp., Claypole, Amer. Geol. xviii, p. 199, 
pi. vii, Devonian, Ohio. 
Titanichthys brevis , n. sp., Claypole, op. cit . xvii, p. 166, pi. x, Devonian, 
Ohio. 
Coccosteus mcignus , n. sp. (foss.), Traquair, in Harvie-Brown & 
Buckley, Vert. Fauna Moray Basin, ii, p. 258, pi. vi, fig. 10, Upper 
Devonian, Nairn, Scotland. 
OSTRACODERMI. 
Bothriolepis cristata, n. sp., Traquair, in Harvie-Brown & Buckley, 
Vert. Fauna Moray Basin, ii, p. 266, pi. ix, figg. 1-3, Old Red Sand- 
stone, Elgin, Scotland. 
Cyatluispis schmidtii, Geinitz : on remains from the Silurian of Gotland; 
LindstrOm, Bill. Svenska Ak. xxi, No. 3, 2 pis. 
Thyestes verrucosus, Eichw., and schrenclci , Pand. : further investigations 
by J. V. Rohon, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. (5) iv, p. 223, pi. — . 
holocephala. 
F. J. Cole, Tr. R. Soc. Edinb. xxxviii, pp. 631-680, 2 pis., writes on the 
cranial nerves of Chimcera monstrosa , with a discussion of the lateral 
line system, and of the morphology of the chorda tympani. Abstract, 
P. R. Soc. Edinb. xxi, pp. 49-56, fig. 
On the sensory and ampullary canals of Chimcera ; W. E. Collinge, 
P. Z. S. 1895, pp. 878-890, pis. li-liii ; F. J. Cole, Anat. Anz. xii, 
pp. 172-182, fig. 
