58 



Sy/ignalhus'^ biuli Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i86o. I3de Bijdr. 

 Vischfauna Celebes, p. 13. 



Sy/ignathus leiaspis Dumeril, Hist. nat. I'oissons II. 1870, p. 572. 



Syngnaihus budi Dumeril, ibid. 



Hemithylacus leiaspis Dumeril, 1. c. p. 599. 



Syngnathus budi Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 176. 



Coelonottis liaspis Giinther, 1. c. p. 188. 



Coelonotus Vaillanti Juillerat, Bull. Soc. philom. (7) IV. 1880, p. 176. 



Hcmithylactis leiaspis Sauvage, Poissons in : Grandidier, Hist. nat. de Mada- 

 gascar XVI. 1 891, p. 507. 



Coelonotus Vaillanti Sauvage, 1. c. p. 508. 



Syngnathus budi Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. 1908, Fische p. 228. 



Coelonottis leiaspis Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVII (1907) 1908, 

 p. 246. 



Siphostoma yoshi Snyder, Proc, U.S. Nat. Mus. Wash. XXXVI. 1909, p. 597. 



Syngnathus yoshi Snyder, I.e. XLII. 1912, p. 407 and plate 51, fig. 3. 



Syngnathus yoshi Jordan, Tanaka & Snyder, Journ. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo 

 XXXIII. 1913, p. 95. 



Coelonotus leiaspis de Beaufort, Bijdr. Dierkunde, I9e Aflev. Amsterdam 1913, 

 p. 103. 



Coelonotus liaspis Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XXXII. I9i5,p. 57. 



D. 51 — 60'); A. 4; P. 17 — 19; C. 8 — 9; Rings ly — 18 -|- 

 32 — 34; subdorsal rings 4 — 5 + 8 — 9. 



Body more or less compressed ; tail quadrilateral. Lateral 

 shields with transverse striae, interrupted by a broad median 

 part which is corrugated as also the intermedial shields. Cristae 

 as in genus. Operculum without keel and with or without 

 feeble radial furrows. Head about 9 to more than 10 times in 

 total length (with caudal), thrice or more in length of trunk. 

 Eye 5 — 6 times in head. Snout about equal to postorbital 

 part of head, it is somewhat concave with feeble lateral ridges. 

 Tail, without caudal, much longer than head and trunk. Dorsal 

 lower than height of body. Caudal rounded, about as long as 

 postorbital part of head. When the colour is preserved, dorsal 

 surface of body and tail brown, ventral surface yellowish. 

 A dark brown stripe running from hindmargin of eye along 

 the sides of the trunk. The anal ring and the second, fourth, 

 fifth, seventh, tenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, eightteenth, twenty- 

 second and twenty-sixth tail-ring are speckled with brown on 

 the ventral side, giving to the rings a tortoise-shell-like appea- 

 rance, or the tail has brown edged ocelli, the centre of which 

 is formed by the whitish intermedial shields. Length 159 mm. 



i) According to Snyuer D. 48. 



