84 



Syjignalhits mossaiiibiciis Giinther, Fishes of Zanzibar 1866, p. 140. 



Syngnathus cyanospilus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 170. 



Syngnathzts Kulilii Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 555. 



Syngnathus cyanospilos Dumeril, I.e. p. 555- 



Syngnathus viossainbicus Dumeril, 1. c. p. 565. 



Syngnathus cyanospilos Day, Fishes of India 4° 1878 — 1880, p. 678. 



Doryichthys spaniaspis Jordan & Seale, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Washington XXVI. 



(1906) 1907, p. 10. 

 Syngnathus cyanospilos Max Weber, Siboga-Exped. Fische. 1913, p. 107. 

 Syngnathus cyanospilus Duncker, Mitt. a. d. natiirh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 



1915, p. 81. 



D. 21—25 ; A. 2—3; P. 12—16; C. TO; Rings 13—14+32—36; 

 subdorsal rings i +4 — 5. 



Elongated; trunk heptagonal, the ventral crista very high; 

 tail tetragonal, about 2".^ times longer than trunk. Shields 

 transversely striated; their edges smooth or slightly crenulated. 

 Median cristae of trunk, deflected on the last trunk-ring to 

 inferior cristae of tail, which they nearly reach, but with which 

 they do not coalesce. Superior cristae of trunk reaching to about 

 middle of dorsal; anterior end of superior cristae of tail reaches 

 nearly to commencement of dorsal. Head j^j., — 8 '/a times in 

 length, low, its rostro-frontal profile somewhat concave. Front 

 and vertex transversely striated. Snout somewhat longer than 

 postorbital part of head, with a median rather high keel, running 

 to concave interorbital space. A scalloped nuchal crest beginning 

 on vertex and reaching to first body-ring. Operculum inflated, 

 with a conspicuous longitudinal keel, which is complete or 

 nearly so '); from it radiate fine striae. Caudal shorter than 

 postorbital part of head. Brown, trunk laterally with dark 

 transverse bars on the limits of the rings; tail with numerous 

 irregular whitish spots, which are blue in life. Dorsal with black 

 oblique streaks. Ventral crista blackish. Length 152 mm. 

 [Specimens of Bleeker in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore!; Nias!; Java; Banda ; Ternate; Lsland 

 Siau!. — Gulf of Suez; Mossambique ; Zanzibar; Madagascar; 

 British India ; Philippines ; Formosa. 



6. Syngnathus (?) uncinatus M, Web. -). [Fig. 35, p. 85]. 



Syngnathus uncinatus M. Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. no. 



1) In a young specimen of 92 mm. length, this keel is very short and rather low. 



2) We are not sure about the generic position of the single young specimen 

 we possess. 



