1. PE0ASU8. 149 



c-d. Half-growii. New Guinea. Presented by Vice-Admiral Sir 



E. Belcher *. 

 e. Half-grown. Freycinet's Harbour. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 

 f-i. Half-grown, From the Haslar Collection *. 



Var. /3. Snout shorter than the distance between eye and vent. 

 Back marbled with brown above. 



lc-1, in-o. Fine specimens. Moreton Bay. 



2). Numerous adult examples. Hammond Island, Torres Straits. 



Collected by F. M. Rayner, Esq. 

 q. Adult. Australia. Collected by Mr. MacGillivray. 



4. Pegasus lancifer. 



Pegasus natans, Kaup, Lophobr. p. 4, tab. 1. fig. 2 (this figure is 

 evidently taken from one of the specimens in the British Mu- 

 seum). 



Pegassus lancifer, Kaup, Wiefftn. Arch. 1868, p. 117. 



D. 5. A. 5. P. 15. V. 2. 



Tail (without caudal fin) much longer than the body to the end of 

 the snout, composed of fourteen or fifteen rings, of which the six 

 posterior are more or less confluent, much depressed, tape-like. The 

 trunk is broad, exceedingly depressed, nearly flat above, with narrow 

 vertical sides. The dorsal ridges usually found in this genus are 

 linear ; and from the centre of each shield radiate raised lines, form- 

 ing star-like figures. Pectoral rays equally slender. Snout pro- 

 longed into a very thin four-ridged process, about twice as long as 

 the orbit ; the ridges are beset with minute spines. Upper parts 

 nearly uniform brown. 



Tasmania. 



a. Four inches long. Tasmania. Presented by Dr. Milligau. 



b. Four inches long. Old Collection. 



