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sides and each ring marked by a whitish or Hght vertical line. Some 

 examples are darker, others have more white or brown, and still others 

 are marked below with very pronounced white spots below, with gen- 

 eral color of body pale greenish-brown and tail paler. Fins trans- 

 parent, dorsal and caudal marked with brownish. Iris pearl-colored 

 with brownish spots. Length 4^ inches. 



Fig. 9. Syngnathus elucens Poey. 



A nimiber of examples from the Marquesas, taken with many small 

 fishes found in the sea-weed and marine vegetation of the shallows. 

 One also from Big Pine Key. 



38. Syngnathus louisianae Giinther. Hpe Fish. Fig. 10. 



Color in alcohol rather pale brown, upper side of back dark l^rown 

 and middle of back much paler. Several series of brown wavy longi- 

 tudinal lines more or less irregular, but parallel, on middle of back 

 and caudal above. Along side, just below each keel, a short brown 

 horizontal line on each ring. In dark color of upper half of side several 

 others appear on some rings. On lower half of side brown lines are 

 sometimes more or less convex, and on caudal they assume various 

 vermiculate patterns. Lower or under surface of both head and 

 body dull or pale brownish-white without markings. Head brown- 

 ish, pale above, and on side of snout a dark brownish streak through 

 eye and back across opercle above, giving rise on side of body to hori- 



Fig. 10. Syngnathus louisianae Giinther. 



zontal dark line on each scute just below uppermost keel. Dorsal, 

 caudal and pectoral pale brownish-white, caudal wath some darker or 

 brownish markings. Iris pale slaty, except brownish streak, and 

 grayish below. 



Color in life similar. Back grayish-white above or medianly with 

 brown lines. Upper side olivaceous-brown. Lower surface pale 

 whitish, lines on lower side brownish, and under sin-face of abdomen 



