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rings; rings 11 to 13+34 to 38. This species is very close to the 

 preceding, and may not eventually prove to be distinct. The 

 specimens fail to show any tangible structural characters and the 

 variations are in most every way conformable. Both have a similar 

 general style of coloration, even to the dark median ventral keel and 

 submarginal dark band on the dorsal. The female likewise shows 

 the vent in a dark area. 



Hippocampus punctulatus Guichenot. 



Bermuda; Vera Cruz, Mexico; Port of Silam, Yucatan; Bahamas; 

 Santa Cruz, W. I. ; Key West, Marquesas Keys and Useppa Island, 

 Florida; Maldonado Bay, Uruguay; Sao Thome, Portuguese Guinea. 

 The Useppa Island example agrees in most every respect with the 

 nominal color variety H hrunneus Bean^. Possibly H. stylifer 

 Jordan and Gilbert is another variation, though none of my examples 

 shows so few as 16 D. raj^s. 



Hippocampus sindonis Jordan and Snyder. 



A dried example labeled "coast of Japan," from Dr. W, N. 

 Whitney, conspicuous for its extremely high bony occipital crest. 



Hippocampus ingens Girard. 



Two in bad preservation, from Panama. 



Hippocampus zosterae Jordan and Gilbert. 



Marquesas Keys, Florida. 



Hippocampus kuda Bleeker. 



H. taeniops Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 12, 1904, p. 501, PI. 

 7 (upper left fig ). Padang, Sumatra. 



No. 27,469, A. N. S. P., type of H. taeniops Fowler. 



Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson. 



H. bleekcri Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 426, fig. 4. Victoria, 



Australia. 

 H. agnesae Fowler, 1. c, 429, fig 5. Victoria. 



No. 33,122, A. N. S. P., type of H. hleekeri Fowler. 



No. 33,123, A. N. S. P., type of H. agnesae Fowler. 



Hippocampus ecuadorensis n. sp. Fig. 2. 



Head, measured to gill opening, Ij in trunk; depth of trunk 2 

 in its length; width of trunk about 4; trunk 2\ in tail; D. 22; A. 5; 

 P. 16; rings 11+36; depth of head at coronet If in its length; 

 width of head 3^; snout 2\; eye 6^; dorsal base 2|; interorbi- 

 tal space 1^ in eye. 



» Field Mus. Pub. Zool., 7, July 1906, p. .39, fig. 1. Bennuda. 



