by an oblique longitudinal 

 keel in a superior smaller 

 and an inferior larger part, 

 the last shows up to 8 pro- 

 minent lines, radiating from 

 the longitudinal keel. Snout 

 rather stout, slightly long- 

 er than postorbital part of 

 head, with a median high, 

 roughly serrated crista and 

 2 lateral lower and less den- 

 ticulated cristae. Tail much 

 shorter than trunk. Dorsal 

 rather high, but less than 

 height of body. Head 4 ] / 2 

 to more than $ ] J 2 times in 

 length. Eye 4 5 1 /., times in 

 head. Caudal conspicuously 

 longer than half length of 

 head. Deep- or "grayish 

 brown ; a dark band, narrow 

 on snout and head, is con- 

 tinued as a broader band on 

 the sides of trunk and tail. 

 Posterior half of caudal may 

 be blackish. Length 63 mm. 

 [A specimen of Syngnathus 

 melanopleura Blkr. of BLEE- 

 KER's collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Cocos Island ; 

 Timor! ; Island S amau!; New 

 Guinea (North coast). 

 Mauritius, Japan, Riu Kiu 

 Islands, Hawaiian Islands, 

 Rotuma, Samoa. 



9. Solegnathus Swainson. 



(SWAINSON, Nat, Hist. Fish. II. 1839, 



PP- 195, 333)- 

 Solenognathus Kaup et auctores. 



Body compressed, higher 

 INDO-AUSTKALIAN FISHES IV. 



Fig. 28. Solegnathus lettiensis Blkr. 

 X 4 /s tyP e of BLEEKER. 



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