4 6 



ratu !, Dirk de Vries Bay!); Lombok!; Flores! (River Konga!, 

 Endeh!); Celebes (Makassar !, Menado, river Boni !, Pampanuwa 

 on river Tjenrana !, Balangnipa on Tanga river !) ; Buru (Kajeli !) ; 

 Ceram (Kairatu !); Ambon ! ; Ternate ; Batjan ! ; Aru Islands, fresh 

 and brackish water!; Nofth New Guinea (river Klipong!, Mbai 

 river!, Tateh river!). Indo- Pacific, reaching from East Africa, 

 Madagascar, Mascarenes, British India, Ceylon, Cochinchina, 

 Japan, Philippines, Caroline Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New 

 Caledonia!, Fidji-, Tonga-, Samoa-, Cook- and Society Islands. 

 In fresh water of rivers and brackish and salt water of 

 their estuaries. 



2. Microphis manadensis (Blkr.) 



Syngnathus manadensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. I. 1856, Vischsoorten 



van Manado en Makassar, p. 78. 

 Doryichthys manadensis Bleeker, 1. c. VIII. 1860, 8. Bijdr. vischfauna Sumatra 



p. 72. Ibid. 13. Bijdr. vischfauna Celebes p. 13. 



Doryichthys Bernsteini Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sc. Nat. II. 1867, p. 398. 

 Microphis Jagorii Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, April 1868, p. 280. 

 Microphis Jagorii Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poiss. II. 1870, p. 594. 

 Microphis Bernsteini Dumeril, ibid. p. 594. 

 Microphis manadensis Dumeril, ibid. p. 595- 



Doryichthys manadensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 184. 

 Doryichthys Bernsteini Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. Zool. II. Fische 1908, p. 229. 

 Doryichthys stictorhynchus Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus. I. 1912, p. 34. 

 Microphis manadensis Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XXXII, 1 91 5, p. 47. 



D. 35 42; A. 3 4; P. 18 20; Rings 20 22 + 24 27 ; sub- 

 dorsal rings 2 3 + 6 7. 



Much elongate. Shields transversely striated, their keels 

 slightly elevated and only in the young minutely serrated ; 

 without terminal spine. Edges on head smooth. Inferior cristae 

 of trunk and tail discontinuous, median cristae of trunk and 

 inferior cristae of tail continuous. Operculum with complete 

 longitudinal keel and up to 5 radiating ridges below it. Head 

 about 7 times in length, not much longer than dorsal; tail 

 without caudal equal to or slightly shorter than trunk; snout 

 one and a half times the length of the postorbital part of 

 head or somewhat longer and equal to or not much longer 

 than half the length of the head. Vent somewhat behind origin 

 of dorsal. Caudal equal to or somewhat shorter than post- 

 orbital part of head. Brownish, a narrow dark longitudinal 

 band from snout to hindmargin of operculum or somewhat 

 farther. Length 2 12 mm, [Specimens of Doryichthys manadensis 



