art.2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN. el, 
We have compared an example 95 mm. long in the Academy 
from Padang, Sumatra, which agrees in every way. 
Family SOLENOSTOMIDAE. 
SOLENOSTOMUS PARADOXUS (Pallas). 
One example, 125 mm. long, from Takao. D. V—20; A. 20; rings, 
14-16; depth of snout midway, 5% in its length; caudal peduncle 
less than base of first dorsal. 
Our example very closely resembles Solenostomus paradoxus 
Weber,‘ which may really only represent a younger stage of S. 
paradoxus. Its caudal peduncle is shorter than that shown in 
Weber’s figure. The spinous dorsal has the first two membranes 
with a black blotch like that shown in Jordan and Snyder’s figures 
of S. cyanpterus and S. paradowus. Moreover, our example has 
the spinous dorsal terminally and caudal both terminally and mar- 
ginally dusky. It is a female and still retains a number of eggs 
between the ventrals. 
Family SYNGNATHIDAE. 
GASTROTOKEUS BIACULEATUS (Bloch). 
One from Cebu. Length, 228 mm. 
HIPPOCAMPUS KUDA Bleeker. 
Rings, 10+387 or 38. D. 18. Tubercles prominent, rather spi- 
nescent and a few filaments present. Supraorbital spine variable, 
simple, usually with broad base. Preorbital spine obsolete or absent. 
Coronet moderate. Snout 24 to 24 to gill opening. Low or obsolete 
median spine at base of snout before eye, usually scarcely distin- 
guishable. Color in alcohol dull tawny-olive above to paler or 
whitish below. Back and sides all penciled, streaked, and speckled 
with dusky, mostly longitudinally. Brood-pouch of males similarly 
marked to opaque. Eye with six or more conspicuous white lines 
which radiate on adjacent ocular area. Four examples, three of 
which males with brood-pouches. Takao. Largest about 125 mm. 
tous. HIPPOCAMPUS LONGIROSTRIS Cuvier. 
Rings, 10+35. D. 18. Tubercles rather conspicuous, without 
filaments. Supraorbital spine simple, slightly curved backward 
or obliquely truncated terminally, length half of eye. Preorbital 
spine well developed, though shorter than supraorbital. Coronet 
low. Snout nearly long as space from front eye edge to gill-opening. 
Well developed spine medianly just before preorbital at snout base. 
“ Siboga Exped., Fishes, vol. 65, 1918, p. 103, fig. 833c. Arafura Sea. 
