68 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Sides with white or silvery bands or spots, between which are brown 

 bands ; a brown band through the eye and along the snout (Giinth). 



New Zealand ; Mediterranean, tropical parts of the Atlantic, 

 Mauritius, China, Falkland Islands, South Australia. 



I have seen no specimens. 



ICHTHYOCAMPUS. 



Tail not prehensile, furnished with a caudal fin ; pectoral fins 

 present ; dorsal edges of trunk and tail continuous, but sometimes very 

 indistinct ; dorsal fin opposite or near to the vent ; males with an egg 

 pouch on the tail. 



Indian and Australian seas. 



109. ICHTHYOCAMPUS PILUM. G-iinth. CM. 



Pipe Fish. 

 /. filum, Giinth., VIII., 178. 

 D. 14 ; Osseous I'ings, 16 + 47-48. 

 Head and snout very shoi-t, the length of the former beingfrom one-third 

 to two-fifths of its distance from the vent ; snout turned upwai-ds, one- 

 third the length of the head ; head and body compressed, without ridges ; 

 length of the tail from two and two-fifths to two and two-thii-ds that of 

 the head and body ; pouch as long as the tiimk ; vent opposite to the 

 middle of the dorsal fin. 



Pale brown, -svith blackish cross-bars on the sutures of the trunk, 

 reduced to spots on the tail, and sometimes also on the body ; sometimes 

 entirely brownish black. 

 Common. Australia. 



DORYICHTHYS. 



Tail not prehensile ; body with the ridges well develojyed ; pectoral 

 and caudal fins present ; dorsal fin opposite to the vent ; males ivith an 

 egg pouch on the abdomen. 



Tropical seas. 



110. DORYICHTHYS ELEVATUS. sp. nov. CM. 



D. 32 ; Osseous rings, 18 -f 44. 

 Snout not quite half as long as the head ; head and trunk together 

 rather more than half the length of the tail ; tlte lateral line j^asses into 

 the upper edge oj the tail ; no spines ; operculum with an oblique ridge 

 slanting backward and upwai-d ; dorsal fin standing on two abdominal 

 and seven caudal rings ; pouch the whole length of the trunk. 



