Jordan and E%>ermann. — Fishes of North America. 777 



specks; a white dot before eye ; sometimes whitish streaks behind eye; 

 body sometimes with black dots. Gulf of California in shallow water, 

 scarce ; ranging north to San Diego. Here described from three male and 

 one female specimens, each inches long, from Mazatlan. tlirard's types, 

 five in number, the largest 9 inches long, from San Diego, where the 

 species is very rare. Pacific Coast of northern Mexico, Cape San Lucas, 

 San Diego ; not common ; oue of the largest sea-horses ; reaching a 

 length of nearly a foot, {ingens, gigantic.) 



Bippocampus ingens, GiRAUD, Pac. R. R. Surv., Fishes, .".42, ^Sr>n, San Diego; adult male ; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, ."iSG, 1883. 

 Hippocampus <j>-acilis, Gn,i,, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 282, Cape San Lucas; atlult 



female. (Coll. Xantus.) 



1141. HIPPOCAMPI'S HUDSONHIS, l>e Kay. 



(("oMMoN American Sea-horse.) 



D. 19; rings 12 -f 32 to 35; depth equal to length of head. Snout li 

 in rest of head. Spines of head weak, provided with cirri ; spines of 

 body all short and bluntish. Dorsal on 3^ of the 11 rings. Dusky, 

 without spots, but with pale grayish blotches, which are sharply edged 

 with paler and blackish ; some of these between eyes and on neck, the 

 most distinct blotch forming an hourglass-shaped figure, extending down 

 each side of the back ; similar blotches on belly and tail. Dorsal with a 

 submarginal dark band. Atlantic Coast, from Cape Cod southward to 

 Charleston; not common. (Name from Hudson River.) 



Hippocampm Imdsonhis, De Kay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 322, plate .'i3, fig. 171, 1842, New York; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 907, 1883. 

 Hippocampus heptagouus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 386, 1883; not of Rafinesih'E. 

 Hippocampus lievicaudatus, Heckel MS., Kaup, Lophobranchii, 16, 1856, North America.* 



1142. HIPPOCAMPI'S PUNCTIILATI'S, Guichenot. 

 (Caballito de Mar.) 



Dorsal rays 17 or 18. Snout usually a little longer than postorbital 

 part of head. Tubercles on body generally obtuse and blunt : coronet 

 low ; supraorbital spine obliquely truncate, compressed ; head usually 

 without filaments. Size large. Dark brown, marbled with darker and 

 usually everywhere with light-blue spots which become white in alcoholic 

 specimens; these spots most numerous posteriorly; sometimes these spots 

 are altogether wanting. Tropical parts of the Atlantic, common in the 

 West Indies, Brazil, and Western Africa, occasionally northward in the 

 Gulf Stream as far as Beaufort, N. C. (Jenkins.) A rather large and 

 prettily colored sea-horse. (piinctiilafii.s, with small dots.) 



* Kaup's description of Hippocampus Ixvicaudatus is asfollows: "Thedorsalaslongas the head, 

 and standing on 5 rings. Body rings 11. The eyes nearly in the middle between the end of the 

 snout and the gill opening. Up to the dorsal fin there are 8 rings. Tail without knobs, and the 

 gill plate silvery." 



