95 



pectorals none; dorsal short; caudal very small. Egg-pouch 

 on the tail formed by cutaneous folds from the lower edges 

 of the tail with or without osseous plates. 



Distribution: The species of this genus found near shore 

 in Australia, the indo-australian Archipelago and the Bahamas 

 are insufficiently known. . 



i. Nannocampus weberi Duncker [Fig. 39, p. 94]. 



Nannocampus subosseus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 115 



(nee GUNTHER). 

 Nannocampus Weberi Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 1915, 



p. 99. 



D. 16 17; Rings 16+32; subdorsal rings 1+4. 



Shields with few conspicuous transverse lines, their edges 

 rounded. Intermedial shields very large, oval. Tail 2 1 /^ times 

 as long as trunk. Inferior cristae of trunk and tail continuous; 

 median cristae of trunk rectilinear, ending on last ring of 

 trunk. Head more than 10 times in length, 2 1 / 2 times in trunk. 

 Snout extremely short, as long as diameter of eye and half 

 as long as postorbital part of head, thick, compressed, its dorsal 

 profile concave, mesially with the trace of a ridge, which 

 divides before the eyes into 2 low ridges continued on the 

 upper outer border of the orbits. Operculum without a keel, 

 its surface as also that of the entire head shagreened. Light 

 brown with indistinct irregular longitudinal blackish bands. 

 Length of the single (female?) specimen known 57 mm. 



Habitat: Island Sumba (Bay of Male Kaba, on reef!). 



Note. We are not sure that this species is different from 

 N. subosseus Giinther from West Australia but the lastnamed 

 species is as yet represented only by a dried male specimen 

 in the British Museum and not in a state that the fin-rays 

 could be counted and the end of the median cristae ascertained. 



15. Penetopteryx Lunel. 



(LuNEL, Mem. So,c. Phys. hist. nat. Geneve XXVII. 1881, p. 275). 

 Apterygocampus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 1913, p. 115. 



Small, elongated ; as all the edges are obtuse the body is 

 somewhat rounded and the trunk only feebly hexa- or hepta- 

 gonal, the tail tetragonal. Superior and inferior cristae of trunk 

 and tail continuous; median cristae of trunk reaching to end 



