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YigvrkGZ.— Hippocampus hudsoniuapunctulatus.dT&vinlTom a male 107 mm long from Cuba; U.S.N. M. 

 no. 87385. Length of specimen as drawn, 74 ram. Note the obsolescent tubercles. This seems to be 

 characteristic of males of the Cuban population and of that from Bermuda (the subspecies kincaidi). In 

 the Florida population the tubercles are usually better developed in males of the same size, and they are 

 best developed in the northern populations (the subspecies hudsonius). The spots on the trunk represent 

 an individual variation and the persistence in part of the juvenile color pattern. This variation in the 

 adult color pattern seems to be commoner in the Cuban population but is also often present in the sub- 

 species hudsonius and liincaidi. The spots are sometimes larger. 



