ADDENDA 59. HIPPOCAMPID^ — HIPPOCAMPUS. 907 



Page 386. After Hippocampus heptagonus add : 

 619 (&). II. gfitttulatus Guicb. 



Dark brown, marbled with darker, and usually everywhere spotted 

 with whitish, the spots most numerous posteriorly. Tubercles on body 

 generally obtuse and blunt; coronet low; snout usually a little longer 

 than preorbital part of head. Dorsal rays 17. Supraorbital spine ob- 

 liquely truncate, compressed. Size rather large. Tropical seas, north 

 to our South Atlantic and Gulf coast. 



{^^ Eippocampus guttulatm Cuvier, E5gno Auim.: Hippocampu8 guttulatus Giiuther, 

 vAi, 202: Guicbenot, iu Ramon de la Sagra Poiss. Cuba, 174, the West-Indian form, 

 wbicb is apparently different from tbe European species called " guttulatus.") 



619 (c). H. budsonins Dek. 



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 hour-glass shaped figure, 

 extending down each side of back ; similar blotches on belly and tail. 

 Dorsal with a submarginal dark band. Depth equal to length of head. 

 Snout 1^ in rest of head. Spines of head weak, provided with cirri; 

 spines of body all short and bluutish. Dorsal on 3^ of the 11 body 

 rings. D. 19. Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod southward. (Described 

 from No. 19520, U. S. Nat. Mus., from Beaufort, N. C.) 



(Dekay, N. Y. Fauna, Fisb. 1842, 322.) 



619 (d). H. stylifer J. «fe G. 



Brownish, with darker bars ; snout blackish. Snout notably longer 

 than postorbital part of head; supraocular and temporal spines long, 

 simple; a long median spine in front of coronet; coronet stout, high, 

 its spines slender, abruptly spreading. Spines of body very long and 

 slender, each ending in a filament ; these enlarged on each alternate 

 plate of the neck, and about every fourth plate on body and tail ; dor- 

 sal and upper lateral ridge usually armed and sometimes lower lateral 

 ridge; two strong spines at base of pectoral; body with about 50 devel- 

 oped spinous processes besides numerous smaller points. D. 10, cov- 

 ering about 4 body rings; rings about 12 + 31. Coasts of Florida. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882,265.) 



619 (e). H. zosterae J. & G. 



Olive green; sides of head mottled with paler; dorsal marbled with 

 dusky, its margin (in ^ ) broadly red. Snout very short, not more than 

 half rest of head ; supraojbital spines diverging, each with a small 

 spine before it. Coronet high, two-thirds length of snout; its filaments 



