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/'. Median cristac of liiink ending in bolh sexes on 2nd 

 or 3id tail-ring. Edges of rings in posterior part of 



tail posteriorly without a sharp tooth /. hclchcri 



(not known from the Archipelago). 



I. Ichthyocampus carce (Ham. Buch.). 



Syngnathus carcc Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges 1822, p. 13. 

 Hipfichthys heptagonus Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. XXII. 1849, Bijdr. 



Ichth. fauna Madura, p. 15 '). 

 Syngnathus carce Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Tros- 



kieuwige Visschen p. 161. 

 Syngnathus heptagonus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IX. 1855, p. 430. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 30. 

 Ichthyocampus ponticcrianus Kaup, 1. c. p. 31. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Ind.-Neerl. VIII. i860, Achtste Bijdr. 



vischfauna Sumatra, p. 71 (name only). 

 Ichthyoca7)ipus ponticerianus Day, Fishes of Malabar 1865, p. 263. 

 Ichthyocampus pondicerianus Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische, 1865 — 1867, p. 391. 

 Ichthyocampus ponticeriamis Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 546. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Dumeril, 1. c. p. 540. 

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



Ichthyocampus carcc Gunther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 176. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Day, Fishes of India 4° 1878— 1888, p. 679. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Dunckei', Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 19 15, p. 94. 

 Ichthyocampus carce Chaudhuri, Mem. Indian Museum V. 1916, p. 456. 



D. 23—27; A. 2—3; F. 13—17; C. 9— II; Rings 14—15 + 

 37 — 40 ; subdorsal rings: from the 2nd or y^ to the 7th or 

 9th tail-ring. 



Body compressed, heptagonal ; the abdominal cristae sharp 

 and strongly prominent. Tail tetragonal, more than twice as 

 long as trunk. Shields transversely striated, their edges pro- 



edges increasing in height posteriorly and ending in a sharp tooth. We draw 

 attention to this fact also on account of the following reasons. In the first place 

 because Duncker erroneously unites /. katHpeni M. Web. with /. belcheri Kaup 

 (see also note on p. 94); in the second place because Kaup (Cat. Lophobr. fish, p. 30) 

 says, that in the Leiden Museum are specimens of /. belcheri Kaup brought 

 from Borneo by Dr. Muller. At present that Museum contains of Syngnathidae 

 brought by S. Muller from Borneo only Doryichthys spinosus Kaup = Alicrophis 

 boaja Blkr. and Syngnathus micrognathtis K. & v. H. (Museum name !) = Coelo- 

 notus liaspis (Blkr.). We presume that /. belcheri Kaup is a species not repre- 

 sented in the indo-australian Archipelago but confined to the shore waters of 

 continental Asia and Japan. 



i) See about this species the remarks of Gl'nther (Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 

 1870, p. 173). 



