83 



Habitat: Java. Malay Peninsula; Pinang; Formosa; 

 Japan ; South of China. 



4. Syngnathus fasciolatus Dum. 



Coiythoichthys fasciculatus Kaup, Arch. f. Naturgesch. XIX. i. 1853, p. 231 



(no description). 

 Corythoichthys gastrotaenia Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 27 (nee Syngnathus 



gastrotaenia Blkr.). 



Syngnathus fasciolatus Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons II. 1870, p. 561. 

 Syngnathus fasciolatus Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 



1915, p. 86. 



D. 30(29) ! ); P. 16(17); C. 10; Rings 17 + 41 (16 + 40); sub- 

 dorsal rings 2 + 5. 



Shields with the edges, especially the dorsal ones, serrated. 

 Median cristae of trunk reach to last ring of trunk and are 

 subcontinuous with the superior cristae of tail. Head 10 times 

 in total length. Eyes large, the orbits rise suddenly and are 

 closely pressed together so that the forehead is very narrow. 

 Snout short, thick, equal to postorbital part of head, thrice 

 the diameter of the eye; it carries laterally on its upper profile 

 irregular rows of small spines. The conspicuous occipito-nuchal 

 crest divided in three portions and finely denticulated ; similar 

 denticulations round the orbits and on the keel running from 

 the orbits to the occiput. Operculum roundish, bulging, rough 

 and divided into two dissimilar parts by a prominent keel. 

 Tail twice the length of the trunk. Colour brown, with a 

 yellowish brown crossbar and speckling on each ring. Length 

 of the single specimen known 80 mm. [Not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (according to KAUP (1853) and to DUMERIL), 

 whence it came by KUHL & VAN HASSELT in the Museum 

 at Paris. Evidently by mistake, KAUP states later on (1856), 

 about the same specimen, that it was found at Wahai on Ceram 2 ). 



5. Syngnathus cyanospilus Blkr. 



Syngnathus cyanospilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VI. 1854, p. 114. 

 Syngnathus Mossambicus Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin 1855, p. 465. 

 Syngnathus Kuhlii Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 34. 



1) The numbers in brackets are those given by KAUP from the same specimen 

 the only one known in the Museum at Paris. 



2) KAUP writes "found at Wahai and Ceram in the North Pacific 1 '; this is 

 erroneous: for Wahai lies on the north coast of Ceram, which is an island in 

 the Indian Archipelago. 



