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I have 3 examples, one from Point Pleasant, which are posi- 
tively this species. Others from Cape May and Ocean City have 
about 17 dorsal rays respectively. They do not differ however 
in any respect other than that which may be attributed to indi- 
viduals. None of my examples show any traces of fine white 
spots, apparently the only reliable character for the determination 
of Hippocampus punctulatus. Young examples of H. hudsonius 
show the tubercles on the body-rings alternately more or less en- 
larged. Sea horses are quite common at times on our coast and 
have frequently been taken near Atlantic City. They frequently 
occur about grass to which they cling by means of their pre- 
hensile tails. 
Hippocampus hudsonius Lockwood, Am, Nat., 1, 1867, p. 226. 
—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 828.—Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., 
XII, 1892, p. 360. 
Hippocampus heptagonus Lockwood, Am. Nat., XXI, 1887, p. 
III. 
Hippocampus punctulatus Guichenot. 
Horse Fish. 
Dorsal of female with yellow margin, of male orange, and in 
-both a submarginal band, and also a dark blotch at top of an- 
terior dorsal rays. One male had body rings with dark brown 
vertical stripes. A female had wider stripes on throat converging 
behind, flanked in front by a few irregular dark blotches, and be- 
hind by 4 interrupted lines. White punctulations most numerous 
posteriorly. All have several linear stripes obliquely across 
opercles and eye, and usually 2 on neck. Abdominal edge dark. 
Late in August those taken at Ocean City had greatly developed 
cirri, and the males were with fully distended pouches. (Bean.) 
I have no other record of this fish on the New Jersey coast, 
except that by Dr. Bean, who speaks of it as rather abundant 
about Ocean City and Somers Point. It has not been recorded 
so far to the north before. From the well-known species, Hip- 
pocampus hudsonius, it may be distinguished by the light dots. 
Hippocampus punctulatus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 
1887, p. 134. 
