26 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



pectorals to the origin of the anal, behind which is a similar 

 lighter band, and both are bordered with silvery streaks. 



The smallest and largest specimens in the collection are the 

 two selected for illustration, and measure 70 mm. and 265 

 mm. respectively. Mr. Dannevig says this species is exceed- 

 ingly abundant in the deeper waters of southern Australia, 

 and one hundred and seventy-eight specimens were preserved 

 from the following localities : — 



Oyster Bay, Tasmania, 40-60 fathoms. 



Off Storm Bay, Tasmania. 



Babel Island, near Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 68 fathoms. 



East from E. Sister Island, Bass Strait, 90 fathoms. 



Sixty miles south of Cape Everard, Victoria, 60-70 fathoms. 



Family SYNGNATHID^. 

 Genus Corythroichthvs, Kaup. 



CORYTHROICHTHYS PHILLIPI, LuCUS. 



(Fig. 10.) 

 Syngnatlnis phillipi, Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (n. ser.), 

 iii., 1891, p. 12. 



Four specimens of this species were obtained in Oyster 

 Bay, Tasmania. They differ from Lucas' excellent descrip- 

 tion only in having the osseus rings and fin rays rather more 

 numerous which brings the formula up to the following : — 

 D. 25-28, osseus rings i8-ig + 44-48. 



This species is very closely allied to the more northern C. 

 maygaritijer, Peters, but is distinguished by having a larger 

 number of tail rings, the dorsal fin placed a little farther back 

 in relation to the vent, and by the greater development of the 

 ridges of the head and body, particularly the ventral keel. 



W \\\'\ 



asBicraiffl'HllJTQIlirJl iltfnn rf rrrnrTTTTjiij: 



[Corythroichtliys intestinalis, Ramsay. 

 Having had occasion to compare the above-mentioned 

 specimens with Syngnathus intestinalis, Ramsay, 1 I dis- 

 covered that the types of that species were not Australian, as 

 has been generally supposed, but came from Bougainville 

 Island in the Solomon Group. Ramsay gave no locality, but 

 merely stated that they were taken from the intestinal cavity 



1 Ramsay— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v., 1881, p. 494. 



