202 STNGNATHID S 



Dorsal fin with, seventeen or eighteen rays. Eleven body-rings. 

 Tubercles prominent, acute, without tentacles. Supraorbital spine 

 simple, straight, pointed ; coronet rather low. That part of the 

 coronet which connects it with the occipital knpjb is short and narrow. 

 The length of the snout equals the distance of the posterior margin 

 of the orbit from the lateral spine of the neck. Coloration uniform 

 (in preserved specimens). 



Japan and China. 

 a. Adult. China Seas. Presented by Vice- Admiral Sir E. Belcher. 

 b-c. Adult (11 inches) and half-grown. Formosa. From Consul 



Swinhoe's Collection. 

 d. Adult. 



8. Hippocampus gnttnlatas. 



a. Synonymy for Atlantic specimens. 



Syngnathus, sp., Brov>n, Jam. p. 441. no. 1. 



Hippocampus guttulatus, Cuv. Rhgne Anim. ; Kaup, Lophohr. p. 9. 



punctulatus, Guichen. iti Saffra, Cuba Poiss. p. 174 *, pi. 5. tig; 2 ; 



Kner, Novara, Fische, p. 390. 

 longirostris, Kaup, Lophobr. p. 12, pi. 3. fig. 2. 



/3. Synonymy for Indian specimens. 



Hippocampus kuda, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 82 ; or V*n-h. 



Bat. Gen. xxv. Trosk. p. 26. 



moluccensis, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 305. 



taeniopterus, Bleek. I. c. p. 306. 



polyttenia, Bleek. I. c. vi. p. 338. 



melanospilus, Bleek. I. c. p. 505. 



comes, Kaup, Lophobr. p. 10 ; Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 262 (not 



Cant). 



punctulatus, Kaup, Lophobr. p. 14. 



punctulatus, guttulatus et monckei, Giinth. Fish. Zanz. p. 139. 



Dorsal fin with seventeen (eighteen) rays. Tubercles generally 

 obtuse and blunt. The supraorbital spine is obliquely truncated, 

 compressed, or with its anterior portion sometimes slightly detached. 

 Coronet low. The length of the snout is equal to, or a little more 

 than, the distance between the hind margin of the orbit and the 

 giU-opening in full-grown examples, and equal to it, or rather less, 

 in half-grown. (Only in a few of our examples have I found some 

 filaments.) The coloration varies. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic ; Indian Ocean and archipelago ; 

 Japan. 



a. Light or dark broivn, marbled with darker on the hack ; all 

 parts with numerous small black and still smaller white dots. 



aa. Atlantic specimens, 

 a. Half-grown. Gambia. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 b-d, e-g. Adult and half-grown. Caribbean Sea. 

 h. Adult. Hayti. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



* This author states the number of dorsal rays as 22, but does not appear to 

 bo certain of it. 



