PALJEOXISCIDJS. 
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Cryphiolepis striata, Traquair. 
[Plate XYI. fig. 9.] 
1881. Ccelacanthus striatus , R. H, Traquair, Geol. Mag. [2] yoI. viii. 
p. 37. 
1881. Cryphiolepis striatus, R. H. Traquair, ibid. p. 491. 
Type. Detached scales ; collection of Dr. R. H. Traquair. 
The type species (exact proportions at present unknown). Ex¬ 
pansion of maxilla ornamented with closely arranged striae, mostly 
parallel with its upper and hinder borders; dentary stout behind, 
tapering in front, marked with fine, close striae parallel with the 
inferior, but oblique to the upper margin ; laniary teeth in mandible 
stout, acutely pointed, and somewhat incurved. Ein-rays longitu¬ 
dinally grooved or striated. Exposed area of body-scales rhom- 
boidal, the ornament consisting of fine, closely arranged, subparallel 
ridges, proceeding to the hinder border without convergence, rarely 
bifurcating, but often intercalated; scales of caudal lobe faintly 
grooved or smooth. 
Form. Log. Middle Carboniferous Limestone Series (Blackband 
Ironstone) : near Edinburgh. 
P. 4116. Group of scales, one shown, of three times the natural 
size, in Plate XYI. fig. 9 ; Borough Lee. 
Presented by Dr. li. H. Traquair , 1883. 
A genus and species from the Lower Permian of Bohemia, closely 
related to Cryphiolepis , is named Splicerolepis Jcounoviensis, A. 
Eritsch, Sitzungsb. k. bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1877, p. 46. The type 
specimens are preserved in the Royal Bohemian Museum, Prague, 
and will be described in a forthcoming part of Eritsch’s 4 Fauna der 
Gaskohle. 5 
Genus COCCOLEPIS, Agassiz. 
[Poiss. Eoss. vol. ii. pt. i. 1844, p. 300.] 
Trunk elegantly fusiform. Mandibular suspensorium oblique ; 
dentition consisting of an inner series of large laniaries flanked 
externally with minute teeth ; external bones tuberculated or rugose. 
Eins large or of moderate size, the rays of all articulated and branch¬ 
ing distally; fulcra minute or absent. Pelvic fins with short base¬ 
line ; dorsal and anal fins triangular, the former opposed to the 
space between the latter and the pelvic fins ; upper caudal lobe much 
elongated, the fin deenlv cleft and somewhat unsymmetrical. Scales 
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