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radiate striae. Eye about 4 — 5 times in head. Tail somewhat 

 more or less than twice longer than trunk. Brown, trunk 

 ventrally paler, or it is reticulated with brown and the tail 

 ventrally more or less spotted. Head with 3 blackish bands 

 radiating from the eye, one along the snout, a second to the 

 temples, a third inferiorly along the operculum; the lower 

 surface of snout and head may also be black-spotted. Length 

 140 mm. [Specimens of vS. djarong Blkr. and 5. Helfriclii Blkr. 

 of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra (Trussan, Tandjong); Simalur!; 

 Nias!; Java (Dirk de Vries Bay!); Borneo (Banjermassin); 

 Waigeu (riverRabiai !) New Guinea!. — Ceylon; Philippines; 

 New South Wales (Clarence river). 



In brackish water and fresh water of brooks and rivers. 



2. Syngnathus spicifer Riipp. [Fig. 34, p. 78]. 



Syngnathus spicifer Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 



1840, p. 143. 

 Syngnathus gastrotaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 713. — 



Veihand. Batav. Genootsch. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Tioskieuwige Visschen, p. 22. ■ — - 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IX. 1855, P- 43°- 

 Syngnathus tapeinosoina Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VI. 1854, p. 376. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 34 (p.p.). 

 xMicrophis tenuis Blyth, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1858) 1859, p. 272. 

 Syngnathus liunnii Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i860, Achtste Bijdr. 



vischfauna Sumatra, p. 70. 

 Syngnathus argyrostictus Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 264 (nee Kaim'). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1869, p. 276. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 546. 

 Syngnathtis tapeinosoina Dumeril, 1. c. p. 548. 

 Syngnathus Hunnii Dumeril, 1. c. p. 548. 



Syngnathus tapeinosoina Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1S70, p. 172. 

 Syngnathus liunnii Giinther, I.e. p. 172. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Giinther, I.e. p. 172 (p.p.). 



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

 . 1871, p. 650. 



Syngnathus tapeinosoina (?) Klunzinger, I.e. p. 651. 



Syngnathus spicifer Day, Fishes of India, 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 678 (p.p.). 

 Syngnathus gracilis Steindachner, Abhandl. Senckenb. naturf. [Gesellsch. XX\*. 



1 90 1, p. 458. 

 Corythroichthys spicifer Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVI. 



(1906) 1907, p. 9. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. Zool. Livr. 2, 1908, p. 228. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Duncker, Spolia Zeylanica VII. 191O, p. 32 (p. p.). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, 1910, p. 429 (p. p.). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 1915, p- 79. 



