no 



Supraorbital tubercle vertical, long, pointed. Opercles with 

 or without distinct radiating ridges. Occipital keel behind coronet 

 with two distinct spines. All the tubercles are developed into 

 long, slender acute spines. Those on first, fourth, sixth, eighth 

 and eleventh bodyring and on third, sixth, eighth, tenth, 

 twelfth and fourteenth tailring still longer. Shields smooth. 

 No filaments. Dorsal on two last bodyrings and first or first 

 and second tailring. Height of ridge, which carries the dorsal, 

 about half diameter of eye. Height of dorsal less than diameter 

 of eye. Colour of alcohol specimens light brownish yellow, 

 snout with dark transverse lines. Vermiculating fine lines on 

 rest of head, body and trunk. Length 142 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Java Sea!; Celebes (Makassar !); Aru- 

 Islands!. - - Japan, Zanzibar, Reunion, Bourbon, Aden, Red 

 Sea, Andamans, Pacific. 



4. Hippocampus kuda Blkr. 



Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 82. 



Hippocampus moluccensis Bleeker, ibid. p. 305. 



Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker, ibid. p. 306. 



Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Troskieuwige 



visschen, p. 26. 



Hippocampus polytaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, VI. 1854, p. 338. 

 Hippocampus melanospilos Bleeker, ibid. p. 505. 

 Hippocampus comes Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 10 (p. p.). 

 ? Hippocampus comes Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. I. 1856, Beschrijv. nieuwe 



vischsoorten Menado en Makassar, p. 80. 



Hippocampus comes Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische, I. 1865 J 867, p. 390. 

 Hippocampus melanospilos Dum6ril, Hist. nat. Poissons, II. 1870, p. 505. 

 Hippocampus kuda Dume'ril, op. cit. p. 506. 

 Hippocampus comes Dume"ril, op. cit. p. 512. 

 Hippocampus rhynchomacer Dumeril, op cit. p. 519. 

 Hippocampus polytaenia Dume"ril, op. cit. p. 522. 



Hippocampus guttulatus Gilnther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 202 (p.p.)- 

 ? Hippocampus guttulatus Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 682. 

 Hippocampus guttulatus Reuvens, Notes Leyden Mus. XVI. 1894, p. 148. 

 Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 190 1, p. 14. 

 Hippocampus aterrimus Jordan Snyder, ibid. p. 14. 

 Hippocampus kuda Jordan & Snyder, I.e. p. 15. 

 Hippocampus hilonis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXII. (1902) 



1904, p. 169. Ibid. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 119. 



Hippocampus comes Vaillant, Mission Pavie, Indo Chine III. 1904, p. 462. 

 Hippocampus taeniops Fowllr, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia (2) XII. 1904, 



p. 501. 



Hippocampus aterrimus Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVI. (1906) 1907, p. 10. 

 Hippocampus kuda Jordan & Scale, ibid. p. 10. 



