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i-h. Adult and half-grown. Port au Prince. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 

 I, m-n. Adult and half-grown. Cuba. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 



0. Half-grown. Surinam. From the Collection of Dr. van Lidth 



de Jeude. 

 p-t. Adult. Bahia. From Dr. Wucherer's Collection. 

 u-v. Adult and half-grown. Museum Leach. 

 w, X, y. Adult and half-grown. 



bb. Indian specimens. 



z, a-^, €-6. Half-grown. Zanzibar, From Lieut.-Col. Playfair's 

 Collection. 



1. Type oi H. kuda. East-Indian arcbipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's 



Collection. 



K-\. Adult and half-grown. Amboyna. 



/I. Adult : dried. Madras. 



V. Adult. Singapore. From the Collection of the East-India Com- 

 pany. ^ ,r T 



I. Adult. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Jamrach. 



/3. Nearly uniform darlc brown. 



aa. Atlantic specimens. 



0. Adult. West coast of Africa. 



IT. Adult : dried. Brazil. Presented by Mrs. Parker. 



p. Half-grown : dried. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's Collection. 



bb. Indian specimens. 



s. Half-grown. Red Sea. Collected by W. Jesse, Esq. 



T-v. Adult and half-grown. Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. Play- 

 fair's Collection. 

 y. lAght brown, with very broad irregular black or brown cross 



bands. 



aa. Atlantic specimens : head and end of the tail black, 



(p-\p, u)-a'. Adult. St. Croix. Presented by Prof. Newton. 



bb. Indian specimens : head dotted with black. 



b'. Type of H. polytcenia. Floris. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection, 

 c'. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 



^. Blade, with brown cross bands ; a few scattered brown spots on 

 the body and tail and edge of the abdomen, 

 d'. Half-grown. Eio Janeiro. Collected by Dr. Cunningham. 



e . Half-grown. Amboyna. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. — Type 



of Hippocampus melanospilus. 



f. Half-grown. 



Hippocampus deanei, Dumeril, Arch. Mus. x. 1858, p. 243, from 

 Sierra Leone, is perhaps not specifically distinct from H. guttulatus. 

 It is characterized thus : — D. 17. Snout as long as the postorbital 



