So 



radiate striae. Eye about 4 5 times in head. Tail somewhat 

 more or less than twice longer than trunk. Brown, trunk 

 ventrally paler, or it is reticulated with brown and the tail 

 ventrally more or less spotted. Head with 3 blackish bands 

 radiating from the eye, one along the snout, a second to the 

 temples, a third inferiorly along the operculum ; the lower 

 surface of snout and head may also be black-spotted. Length 

 140 mm. [Specimens of 5. djarong Blkr. and 5. Helfrichi Blkr. 

 of BLEEKER'S collection in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore ; Sumatra (Trussan, Tandjong) ; Simalur !; 

 Nias!; Java (Dirk de Vries Bay!); Borneo (Banjermassin); 

 Waigeu (riverRabiai !) New Guinea!. -- Ceylon; Philippines; 

 New South Wales (Clarence river). 



In brackish water and fresh water of brooks and rivers. 



2. Syngnathus spicifer Riipp. [Fig. 34, p. 78]. 



Syngnathus spicifer Rttppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 



1840, p. 143. 

 Syngnathus gastrotaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 713. 



Verhand. Batav. Cenootsch. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Troskieuwige Visschen, p. 22. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IX. 1855, p. 430. 



Syngnathus tapeinosoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VI. 1854, p. 376. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 34 (p.p.). 

 }Microphis tennis Blyth, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1858) 1859, p. 272. 

 Syngnathut Hunnii Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. 1860, Achtste Bijdr. 



vischfauna Sumatra, p. 70. 



Syngnathus argyrost ictus Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 264 (nee KAUP). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1869, p. 276. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 546. 

 Syngnathus tapeinosoma Dumeril, 1. c. p. 548. 

 Syngnathus Hunnii Dumeril, 1. c. p. 548. 



Syngnathus tapeinosoma Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 172. 

 Syngnathus Hunnii Gunther, I.e. p. 172. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Gunther, I.e. p. 172 (p.p.). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Klunzinger, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XXI. 



1871, p. 650. 



Syngnathus tapeinosoma (?) Klunzinger, I.e. p. 651. 



Syngnathus spicifer Day, Fishes of India, 4. 18781888, p. 678 (p.p.). 

 Syngnathus gracilis Steindachner, Abhandl. Senckenb. naturf. [Gesellsch. XXV. 



1901, p. 458. 

 Corythroichthys spicifer Jordan & Seale, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVI. 



(1906) 1907, p. 9. 



Syngnathus spicifer Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. Zool. Livr. 2, 1908, p. 228. 

 Syngnathus spicifer Duncker, Spolia Zeylanica VII. 1910, p. 32 (p.p.). 

 Syngnathus spicifer GUnther, Fische d. Sudsee, 1910, p. 429 (p. p.). 

 Syngnathus spicifer Duocker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 1915, p. 79. 



