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Dorsal origin well before vent, fin small and rays rather short. Anal 

 very small. Pectoral half length of postocular region. 



Color in alcohol largely faded dull brownish. Back dull brown, 

 with obscure paler dots or minute rounded spots. Dorsal pale 

 brown. Brown band along side of snout to eye, and continued back 

 over opercle and upper side of back, gradually merging in color of 

 latter before dorsal. Median narrow streak of same color on upper 

 surface of snout, continued over upper surface of head to predorsal, 

 and much narrower than lateral head bands, or across interorbital 

 about one-third its width. All these bands on head with margins 

 darker or as if bordered with dusky-brown lines. 



Length about 136 mm., measured to end of broken tail. 



Type, No. 33,136, A. N. S. P. Fiji. Mrs. Agnes F. Kenyon. 



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Fig. 1. — Leptonotus tristriatus n. sp. 



This species is related to Leptonotus norae Waite^ in the number of 

 its rings and length of its snout. It differs, however, markedly in 

 color-pattern. Originally I wrongly recorded this species as Syng- 

 nathus semistriatus (Kaup), a species which it appeared to re- 

 semble in structure, though it also differs strikingly in color-pattern. 



{Tri, three; stria, stripe; for the color-pattern chiefly on the head.) 



Solenognathus guntheri Duncker. 



Rings 25 or 26+56 or 57; D. 40? to 43? Two adults from Victoria, 

 Australia, and two without data. They all agree with S. hardwickii 

 Waite^, which has been named S. guntheri by Duncker. 



Phyllopteryx foliatus (Shaw) 



. Two males and 4 females from Portland, Victoria. Syngnatus 



taeniloatus Lacepede* is synchronous with Shaw. 



Hippocampus hippocampus (Linne) 



Italy and Port Mahon, Minorca. D. 16 to 19, on 3+1 rings; 

 rings 12+35 or 36. Also a number of dried examples without data. 



Hippocampus hudsonius De Kay. 



Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware. D. 17 to 20, on 3 or 4+1 



6 Records Canterbury Mus., I, No. 3, 1911, p. 17-3, PI. 27, fig. 1. 

 ' Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2) 9, 1894, p. 221, PI. 17, figs. 2-4. 7. 

 8 Ann. Mus. Hist. N'at. Paris, 4, 1804, p. 211, PI. 58. fig. 3. 



