no 



Supraorbital tubercle vertical, long, pointed. Opercles with 

 or without distinct radiating ridges. Occipital keel behind coronet 

 with two distinct spines. All the tubercles are developed into 

 long, slender acute spines. Those on first, fourth, sixth, eighth 

 and eleventh bodyring and on third, sixth, eighth, tenth, 

 twelfth and fourteenth tailring still longer. Shields smooth. 

 No filaments. Dorsal on two last bodyrings and first or first 

 and second tailring. Height of ridge, which carries the dorsal, 

 about half diameter of eye. Height of dorsal less than diameter 

 of eye. Colour of alcohol specimens light brownish yellow, 

 snout with dark transverse lines. Vermiculating fine lines on 

 rest of head, body and trunk. Length 142 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Java Sea!; Celebes (Makassar !); Aru- 

 Islands!. — Japan, Zanzibar, Reunion, Bourbon, Aden, Red 

 Sea, Andamans, Pacific. 



4. Hippocampus kuda Blkr. 



Hippocamptis kuda Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 82, 



Hippocavipus jiiohicceusis Bleeker, ibid. p. 305. 



Hippocavipiis tacHiopieriis Bleeker, ibid. p. 306. 



Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Troskieuvvige 



visschen, p. 26. 

 Hippocampus polytaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, VI. 1854, p. 338. 

 Hippocampus mclanospilos Bleeker, ibid. p. 505. 

 Hippocampus comes Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 10 (p. p.). 

 "^ Hippocampus comes Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. I. 1856, Beschrijv. nieuwc 



vischsoorten Menado en Makassar, p. 80. 

 Hippocampus comes Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische, I. 1865 — 1867, p. 390. 

 Hippocatnpus melanospilos Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons, II. 1870, p. 505. 

 Hippocavipus kuda Dumeril, op. cit. p. 506. 

 Hippocampus comes Dumeril, op. cit. p. 512. 

 Hippocampus rhynchomacer Dumeril, op cit. p. 519, 

 Hippocampus polytaenia Dumeril, op. cit. p. 522. 



Hippocampus gul tula tus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 202 (p.p.). 

 } Hippocampus guttulatus Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 682. 

 Hippocampus guttulatus Reuvens, Notes Leyden Mus. XVI. 1894, p. 148. 

 Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXIV. I90i,p. 14. 

 Hippocampus aterrimus Jordan & Snyder, ibid. p. 14. 

 Hippocampus kuda Jordan & Snyder, I.e. p. 15. 

 Hippocampus hilonis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXII. (1902) 



1904, p. 169. — Ibid. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 119. 

 Hippocampus comes Vaillant, Mission Pavie, Indo Chine III. 1904, p. 462. 

 Hippocavipus taeniops Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia (2) XII. 1904, 



p. 501. 

 Hippocampus aterrimus Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVI. (1906) 1907, p. 10. 

 Hippocampus kuda Jordan & Scale, ibid. p. 10. 



