Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . xternaltuberculated layer; locality unknown. Baugh Coll. P. 188-191. Three typical specimens, two being partly in counter-part; Heightington. Weaver-Jones Coll. P. 192. Small crushed^and broken shield, perhaps referable to youngof this species ; Heightington. Weaver-Jones Coll. 33319. Fragment of shield, showing external ornamentation, pro-bably referable to young of this species; Ludlow. Purchased, 1858. Cephalaspis powriei, Lankester. 1835. Cephalaspis lyellii, L. Agassiz (pars), Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 142,
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . xternaltuberculated layer; locality unknown. Baugh Coll. P. 188-191. Three typical specimens, two being partly in counter-part; Heightington. Weaver-Jones Coll. P. 192. Small crushed^and broken shield, perhaps referable to youngof this species ; Heightington. Weaver-Jones Coll. 33319. Fragment of shield, showing external ornamentation, pro-bably referable to young of this species; Ludlow. Purchased, 1858. Cephalaspis powriei, Lankester. 1835. Cephalaspis lyellii, L. Agassiz (pars), Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 142, pi. i. a. fig. 1, pi. i. b. fig. Euccphalaspis powriei, E. R. Lankester, Fishes Old Red Sandst. pt. i. (Pal. Soc), p. 47, pi. ix. fig. 5, pi. x. fig. 1, woodc. figs. 19, 20. Type. Well-preserved fish; collection of J. Powrie, Esq., Res-wallie. 183 Shield sharply rounded in front, broad, and characterized by thepeculiar curvature of the outline (fig. 22) ; orbits placed nearly mid-way between the anterior and posterior margins; cornua short, Fig. Cephalaspis powriei, Lank.—Outline of shield, after Lankestef. broad, acute, and slightly curved inwards. Superficial tubercula-tions relatively small, closely and irregularly arranged. Scaly trunkabout two and a half times as long as the shield. Form, fy Log. Lower Old Red Sandstone i Forfarshire and Ayr-shire. P. 492. Small well-preserved fish, lateral aspect, figured by Agassiz,torn. cit. pi. i. a. fig. 1, as C. lyelli, and noticed by Lan-kester, op. cit. p. 48; Forfarshire. Egerton Coll. 50003. Typical shield, in counterpart Kinblythemont, Bequest. Cephalaspis pagei, Lankester. 1870. Eucephalaspis pagei, E. R. Lankester, Fishes OldRed Sandst. pt. i. (Pal. Soc), p. 49, pi. x. figs. 3,4, pL xi. , woodc. figs. 21, Eucephalaspis asper, E. R. Lankester, ibid. p. 50, pi. x. fig. 5 woodc. fig. 23. [Collection of J. Powrie, Esq., Reswallie.] Type. Imperfect fishes; collection
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