28 LOPHOBRANCHII. 



dark brown with whitish bars. Body brown, with a yellowish- 

 brown cross-bar and speckling on each ring. 



Found at Wahai and Ceram in the North Pacific. 



5. Corythbichtbys brevirostris, Kp. 



Syngnathus brevirostris, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. 



Diagn. — Merely a trace of a cranial crest, and no rostral spines. 

 Lateral line connected in an arch with the under angle of 

 the tail. Body-rings 14-15; tail-rings 30 ; dorsal standing 

 on 5 rings, the first one being the anal ring. 



Descr. — This is the most diminutive member of the subfamily. 

 A male example, belonging to the Frankfort Museum, having 

 an egg-pouch, is pale yellowish, with five rows of specks on the 

 margin of the body. Another male exhibits yellowish specks or 

 bars on the back circumscribed by black borders. The angles 

 bordering the ventral surface of each ring show a row of lighter 

 points. The eyes are silvery, with black points on the iris, or 

 this is wholly black. A small female is striped with white, and 

 its dark back has three yellowish cross-bars. 



Racl— P. 12; D. 12; A. 3 ; C. 10. 



Length of the head - 22 inch, of the snout 0"10 inch, of the 

 body - /0 inch, of the tail 106 to 1'18 inch; of the egg-pouch 

 0-39 inch. 



Discovered in the Red Sea by Dr. Ruppell. Preserved in the 

 Museums of Frankfort, London, Stuttgard, Berlin, and Darm- 

 stadt. 



I hold the following species, known to me through Bleeker's 

 Monograph of the Indian Syngnathidse, to be new, and to belong 

 to Corythbiehthys. 



6. Corytb.6icb.th.ys dactyliopherus, Kp. 



Syngnathus dactyliopherus, Bleeker, Diagn. nieuw Vissch. Bat. 

 Nat. T. N. Ind. deel iv. p. 506 ; Bijdr. tot de kenn. Trosk. 

 Vissch. p. 16. 



Diagn. — Tail, excluding its fin, much shorter than the body 

 without the head. Dorsal commencing immediately above 

 the anus, or scarcely perceptibly before it. The keels form- 

 ing spines on each ring directed backwards. D. 26 rays. 

 Body-rings 18. Caudal rings 20. Tail, without the fin. 



