174 STNGNATHID^. 



37. Syngnathus kaupi. 



Syngnathus spicifer (part.), Knup, Lophohr. p. 34. 



kaupi, Bleek. Natmirk. Verhand. Haarlem, xviii. Poiss. Guin. 



p. 24, tab. 4. fig. 2 (a coloured figure, but the colours are merely 



imaginary). 



D. 26. Osseous rings 14+34. 



Operculum crossed by a straight ridge. The length of the snout 

 equals the distance of the front margin of the eye from the root of 

 the pectoral fin. Crown of the head and nape with ridges. Body 

 deeper than broad. Shields without spines. The length of the 

 trunk (without head) is only two-fifths of that of the tail. Dorsal 

 fin commencing above the vent, and occupying seven rings.' Caudal 

 and pectoral fins well developed. Lateral line and upper caudal 

 edge not continuous. (Blkr.) 



Coast of Guinea. 



38. Syngnathus poecilolsBmus. 



Peters, Monatsber. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 458. 

 D. 28. Osseous rings 20 + 49. 



Operculum with a straight ridge. Snout nearly twice as long as 

 the postorbital part of the head. A low ridge along the median 

 line of the snout and of the crown of the head and neck ; supra- 

 orbital edge continued into a feeble ridge on the side of the crown. 

 Shields without spines. Tail more than twice as long as the trunk. 

 Dorsal fin occupying the anal and six caudal rings. Lowerside of 

 the head with dark dots ; body with very smaU ocellated dots. 

 {Ptrs.) 



Adelaide (South Australia). 



39. Sjnignathus conspicillatus. 



Valentyn. fig. 81 ; Ruysch, Amboina, tab. 6. fig. 18 ; ? Retiard, i. 



tab. 4. 'fig. 30. 

 Syngnathus fasciatus. Gray, Ind. Zool. c. fig. (not Jtisso). 

 ? Syngnathus perlatus, Benn. in Beechey's Voy. Fish. p. 68, pi. 21. 



fig. 1. 

 Svngnathus conspiciUatus, Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish. p. 147, pi. 27. 



•fig. 4. 

 haamatopterus, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. ii. p. 258 ; or Verh. 



Bat. Gen. xxv. Trosk. p. 20. 

 Corythoichthys faaciatus, Kaup, Lophobr. p. 25 ; Kner, Novara, Fisch. 



p. 391. 



D. 29-32. Osseous rings 16-17 + 34-37. 



Operculum crossed by a straight ridge. Snout very thin and 

 slender, the upper profile of the head rising abruptly above the 

 eyes ; it is as long as the remaining or the postorbital part of the 

 head. A strong scalloped median ridge on the occiput and nuchal 

 shields ; supraorbital ridge continued along each side of the crown. 

 Body but little deeper than broad, with rather strong ridges ; shields 

 •without spines. Tail tnore than twice as long as the trunk ; caudal 



