34 SPOLIA ZEYLANIGA. 
Description of the three specimens :— 
Col. Mus. : 6, ann. 11 plus 40; ann. subdors. 2 plus 1; D 18, A ?, 
P 19-18, BR 8. Rings subequal. Head and trunk with 
numerous fine white dots arranged in reticulated lines. 
Ceylon. 
Col. Mus. : 9, ann. 11 plus 38; ann. subdors. 2 plus 1; D 17, A 5, 
P16. Rings subequal. Uniformly dark brown. Ceylon. 
Hbg. Mus. : 2, ann. 11 plus 37; ann. subdors. 2 plus 1; D 18, A 4, 
P16. Ringssubequal. Headand body with numerous fine 
white dots arranged in reticulated lines. Gulf of Mannar. 
According to the number of caudal rings and of pectoral fin rays, 
which are systematically important, the two latter specimens may 
belong to the same, ‘the former one to a different species ; they 
certainly are not Hippocampus kuda, Bleeker. Hippocampus 
guttatus, Cuv. (cf. Giinther, 1870, p. 202; Day, 1878, p. 682), is 
exclusively a European species, which is found from the Mediter- 
ranean to the North Sea. The synonym in the places cited above 
therefore is erroneous. 
LITERATURE. 
1853. Bleeker, P., Bijdrage tot de Kenniss van de Troskienwize 
visschen van den Indischen Archipel. Verhandel. Batav. 
Genoot. Kunst. Wetensch. T. 25. 
1878. Day, F., The Fishes of India. 2 vols. 
1888. Day, F., Supplement to the former. 
1898. Day, F., The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and 
Burma (ed. by T. Blandford). Fishes, Vol. IT. 
1870. Duméril, A., Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, ou Ichthyologie 
Generale. Vol. II. 
1870. Ginther, A., Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. 
Vol. VIIT. 
1856. Kaup, T. P., Catalogue of Lophobranchiate Fishes in the 
Collection of the British Museum. 
1869. Peters, W., Ueber die von Herrn Dr. F. Tagor in dem 
Ostindischen Archipel. gesammelten und dem Kel. 
Zoologischen Museum ubergebenen Fische. Monatsber. 
Kel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1868), pp. 254-81. 
1870. Peters, W., Ueber neue oder weniger bekannte Fische 
des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. Jbid. (1869), 
pp. 703-11. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
A.—Doryichthys ocellatus. 
B.—Urocampus southwelli, 6. 
C.—Urocampus southwelli, ¥. 
