FAMILY, I— SYNGNATHID^. 683 



Tlahitat. — Red Sea, Indian Ocean to Japan, also tropical parts of the Atlantic. It attains 11 or 12 

 inches in length. 



3. Hippocampus hystrix, Plate CLXXVI, fig. 2. 



Kaup, Lophob. p. 17, t. 2, f. 5 ; Guieh. Fauna Reunion, Append, p. .30 ; Dumeril, Hist. Poiss. ii, p. 514 ; 

 Giinther, Catal. viii, p. 206. 



D. 17-18, P. 16. Osseous rings 11 + 3G-37. 



Coronet high with 5 spines, and a tubercle anteriorly, in front of which is another spine. Snout 

 slender, as long as the distance between the front margin of the orbit and the first nuchal spine : two strong 

 spines above the posterior and one above the anterior margin of the orbit : 2 spines below the centre of the 

 orbit, and one behind the middle of its posterior edge. All the tubercles (except those on the end of the tail) 

 in the form of slender and pointed spines. Colours —gray, or yellowish white, with numerous brown and also 

 smaller white dots : 6 or 7 light patches on the tail, covered with dark spots, and one or more similar spots on 

 the body. Snout dark, with a light ring. Each spine black at the tip. 



Habitat. — Zanzibar, Reunion, Aden, Andamans and Japan. An example from Aden in the Calcutta 

 museum is 4"5 inches in length. Mr. Wood-ilason dredged up the specimen figured life-size, at the Andamans, 

 in 35'40 fathoms. 



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