76 



Sy/ig/iathiis Amiersonii Bleeker, Nat, Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XV. 1858, p. 465. 



Syngnathus tetrophthalmus Bleeker, ibid. p. 467. 



Syngnathns sundaicus Dum6ril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 556. 



Syngnathtis teti-ophthalimis Dumeiil, 1. c. p. 563. 



Syngnathus Audersonii Dumerii, 1. c. p. 564. 



Syngnathns bi-evirostris Dumeiil, 1. c. p. 565. 



Syngnathus brevirostris Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 167. 



Syngnathus tctrophthalnms Giinther, 1. c. p. 169. 



Syngnathus brevirostris Klunzinger, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien XXI. 

 1871, p. 652. 



Corythroichthys tanakae Jordan iV Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. XXX. 

 1906, p. 696. 



Corythoichtliys spinicaitdaius Ugilby, Ann. Queensl. Mus. N°. 9, 1908, p. 16. 



Corythroichthys tanakae Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. vol. 42, 1912, p. 407. 



Syngnathus brevirostris de Beaufort, Bijdr. tot de Dierkunde, igde afl. Amster- 

 dam. 1913, p. 102. 



Syngnathus brevirostris Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische. 1913, p. 106. 



Micrognathus brevirostris Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 



D. 17 — 22; A. 2 — 4; P. 9— 14; C. 10; Rings 15 — 17 + 28 — 32; 

 subdorsal rings o — 2 -f 3 — 5. 



Body somewhat compressed, its edges prominent, sometimes 

 slightly dentated. Shields transversally striated. Head nearly 

 9 to more than 10. Eye 5 — 5'/.^ in head. Snout very short, 

 stout, somewhat curved upward, equal to or somewhat shorter 

 than postorbital part of head, as long as eye or half its length 

 longer and 2'4^ — 3 times in length of head, without median 

 crest or spines or with a feeble crest only. Operculum with 

 short feeble basal keel, which may reach to middle of its 

 length and with radiating lines. Tail more than 1.6 times to 

 about twice as long as trunk. Cutaneous appendages more or 

 less developed on head, nape and edges of body. Colour much 

 varying, generally dark brown with light cross-bars on back 

 of each ring or they appear at certain distance on about 10 

 rings only. Colour of females generally lighter. The operculum 

 may have a brown ocellus with a pearl-coloured and a brown 

 peripheral ring. Length 75 mm. [A specimen of Syngnathus 

 tetrophthalmus Blkr. of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by usj. 



Habitat: Singapore!; Java; Cocos Islands; Sangir Islands; 

 Sula Besi Island!; Gisser Island!; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea!; 

 Timor. — Thursday Island ! ; Red Sea ; Zanzibar ; Mossambique ; 

 Japan ; Australia (Sydney, Cape York). 



