8 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
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Abth. 2, pp. 195-288, pis. i.-xvi. 
Dames, W. Ueber eine tertiare Wirbeltliierfauna von dor wostlichon 
Insel desBirket-el-Qurftn in Fajum (Aegypton). Pisces, pp. 135-153, 
pi. iii. SB. Ak. Berl. 1883. . 
Contains notes or descriptions of 16 species, of which 5 are new. 2 
new genera are also described. 
Cope, E. D. On the Fishes of the Recent and Pliocene Lakes of the 
Western part of the Great Basin, and of the Idaho Pliocene Lake. 
P. Ac. Philad. 1883, pp. 134-166. 
. Fourth Contribution to the History of the Permian Formation 
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1 genus and 2 species are described as new. 
Whiteaves, J. F. Recent Discoveries of Fossil Fishes in the Devon- 
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PALJEICHTHYBS. 
CHONDROPTERYGII. 
Selachoidei. 
Blanchard, R. Glycogene chez les embryons de Squale. Zool. Anz. 
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Hertwig, O. Die Entwicklung des mittleren Keimblattes der Wirbel- 
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Elasmobrctnchii , pp. 287-290. 
Hoffmann, C. K. Sur l’origine du Feuillet Blastodermique moyen 
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Schneider, A. t)ber die Begattung der Knorpelfische. Zool. Beitr. i. 
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Trois, E. F. Recherches Exp6rimentales sur les Spermatozo'ides des 
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Formations of the United States. Geol. Surv. Illin. vii. pp. 57-260. 
The following new genera and species, &c., are characterized: — 
Psephodus obliquus , p. 66, pi. i. figs. 1-5, P. symmetricus , p. 71, pi. i. 
