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by an oblique longitudinal 

 keel in a superior smaller 

 and an inferior larger part, 

 the last shows up to 8 pro- 

 minent lines, radiating from 

 the longitudinal keel. Snout 

 rather stout, slightly long- 

 er than postorbital part of 

 head, with a median high, 

 roughly serrated crista and 

 2 lateral lower and less den- 

 ticulated cristae. Tail much 

 shorter than trunk. Dorsal 

 rather high, but less than 

 height of body. Head 4.^^ 

 to more than s',., times in 

 length. Eye 4 — 5V2 times in 

 head. Caudal conspicuously 

 longer than half length of 

 head. Deep- or grayish 

 brown ; a dark band, narrow 

 on snout and head, is con- 

 tinued as a broader band on 

 the sides of trunk and tail. 

 Posterior half of caudal may 

 be blackish. Length 6^ mm. 

 [A specimen of Syngnathiis 

 viclanoplciira Blkr. of Blee- 

 KER'scoUectioninthc Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Cocos Island ; 

 Timor! ; Island Samau!; New 

 Guinea (North coast). — 

 Mauritius, Japan, Riu Kiu 

 Islands, Hawaiian Islands, 

 Rotuma, Samoa. 



9. Solegnathus Swainson. 



(SwAiNSON, Nat. Hist. Fish. II. 1839, 



PP- 195, 333)- 

 Solenognathns Kaup et auctores. 



Body compressed, higher 



lNIKi-.\rsTUAI.I.\N I-ISIIES IV. 



Fig. 28. Solegnathus Icfticnsis Blki 

 X Vs 'yps ^^ Bleekek. 



