FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 181 



Colour. — The general colour, after the scales have been 

 rubbed off, is dark grey on the sides and black below ; where 

 the scales remain, they are highly iridescent, and show golden 

 reflections on the anteiior half of the body. 



Described and figured from a specimen nearly £00 mm. in 

 length. It differs from five examples of C. sloani, Bl. Schn., 

 in the Austrahan Museum, from Messina, in its proportions 

 and its dentition ; the body is more elongate, and the head 

 shorter, the latter being shorter instead of longer than its 

 distance from the last dorsal ray, and 6.8 instead of 6.3 in 

 the length from the operculum to the hypural ; the teeth 

 are smaller, especially the second fang of the upper jaw. It 

 is very similar to C. emmelas, Jordan & Starks, but the space 

 between the pectorals and ventrals is 3.1 in the body-length 

 instead of 4.2 ; the photophores are also more numerous 

 between the isthmus and the ventrals. C. dentatus, Garman, 

 differs from my species in having more numerous scales and 

 photophores, and thirteen anal rays. C. macouni. Bean, 

 differs in the relative positions of its fins and scales ; it is 

 also apparently a shorter form. C. barbatus, Garman, and 

 C. fammelas, Alcock, are both of shorter form, r,nd have 

 feAver photophores. 



The specimen described above was one of the l?.st fishes 

 preserved on board the " Endeavour " before she left on her 

 ill-fated voyage to Macquarie Island. I associate with it 

 the name of my friend, the late Mr. Harald C. Dannevig, who 

 collected it, and whose untimely loss terminated a grand 

 chapter in the fisheries investigation in Austraha. 



Loc- — Thirty miles south of Crpe Everard, ^"ictoria, 180- 

 240 fathoms. 



Family SYNGNATHID.E. 



Genus Hippocampus, Rafinescue. 

 Hippocampus abdomikalis. Lesson. 



Hippocampus abdominalis (Lesson), McCulloch, Zool. Res. 

 " Endeavour," i., pt. 1, 1911, p. 29. pi. vi., fig. 1, and 

 ii., pt. 3, 1914, p. 94. 

 Hippocampus graciliformis. McCulloch, Loc. cif.. i.. pt. 1, 



1911, p. 29, pi.' vi., fig. 2. 

 In the paper quoted above I have noted that the record of 

 this species from Sydney by Giinther has been omitted from 

 all local catalogues. It is therefore of interest to record 

 additional specimens from Port Jackson, one of which was 

 recently collected by my colleague, Mr. E. A. Briggs, at 

 Miller's Point ; the ether was secured at Quarantine Bay 

 by Mr. L. Parker. 



