ADDENDA 59. HIPPOCAMPID^E HIPPOCAMPUS. 907 



Page 380. After Hippocampus heptagonus add : 

 619 (b). II. guttulatus Guich. 



Dark brown, marbled with darker, and usually everywhere spotted 

 with whitish, the spots most numerous posteriorly. Tubercles on body 

 generally obtuse and blunt; coronet low; snout usually a little longer 

 than preorbital part of head. Dorsal rays 17. Supraorbital spine ob- 

 liquely truncate, compressed. Size rather large. Tropical seas, north 

 to our South Atlantic and Gulf coast. 



(f? Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, Regne Aiiim.: Hippocampus guttulatus Giiuther, 

 v&i, 202: Guichenot, in Ramon cle la Sagra Poiss. Cuba, 174, the West-Indian form, 

 which is apparently different from the European species called "guttulatus."^ 



619 (c). II, hudsonius IVk. 



Dusky, without spots, but with pale grayish blotches, which are 

 sharply edged with paler and blackish ; some of these between eyes and 

 on neck, the most distinct blotch forming an hour-glass shaped figure, 

 extending down each side of back; similar blotches on belly and tail. 

 Dorsal with a submarginal dark band. Depth equal to length of head. 

 Snout 1 in rest of head. Spines of head weak, provided with cirri; 

 spines of body all short and bluntish. Dorsal on 3 of the 11 body 

 rings. D. 19. Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod southward. (Described 

 from No. 19520, U. S. Nat. Mus., from Beaufort, K C.) 



(Dekay, N. Y. Fauna, Fish. 1843, 322.) 



619 (d). H. stylifer J. & G. 



Brownish, with darker bars ; snout blackish. Snout notably longer 

 than postorbital part of head; supraocular and temporal spines long, 

 simple; a long median spine in front of coronet; coronet stout, high, 

 its spines slender, abruptly spreading. Spines of body very long and 

 slender, each ending in a filament; these enlarged on each alternate 

 plate of the neck, and about every fourth plate on body and tail; dor- 

 sal and upper lateral ridge usually armed and sometimes lower lateral 

 ridge; two strong spines at base of pectoral; body with about 50 devel- 

 oped spinous processes besides numerous smaller points. D. 16^ cov- 

 ering about 4 body rings; rings about 12 + 31. Coasts of Florida. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882,265.) 



619 (e). II. zosterae J. & G. 



Olive green ; sides of head mottled with paler ; dorsal marbled with 

 dusky, its margin (in $ ) broadly red. Snout very short, not more than 

 half rest of head; supraorbital spines diverging, each with a small 

 spine before it. Coronet high, two-thirds length of snout; its filaments 



