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about 300 mm. [Specimens of H. kuda and H. melanospitos 

 of BLEEKER'S collection in the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, 

 seen by us]. 



Nom. indig. Ikan kuda (Malay) (kuda horse) ; Gadjah 

 menong (Simalur). 



Habitat: Singapore; Pulu Weh ! ; Nias!; Pulu Nako ! ; 

 Simalur!; Sumatra (Priaman, Siboga, Padang, Telok Betong!); 

 Bintang; Banka ; Java (Batavia ! Tjilatjap); Borneo (Balikpapan !, 

 Sandakan); Celebes (Makassar, Amurang, Menado!); Flores!; 

 Sumba; Timor; Samau!; Ambon!; Banda ! ; Buru!; Ceram!; 

 Gisser ! ; Obi ; Batjan ; Ternate ; Halmahera ; Misol ; Kei-Islands ! ; 

 Aru-Islands; Schouten Islands (Biak !); New Guinea (Humboldt- 

 bay!, Wilhelmshafen, British South New Guinea). --Tropical 

 coasts of Indie and Pacific as far east as Hawaiian Islands, 

 north to Japan. 



In Sea. Littoral. 



Note. Dr. G. DUNCKER, who made a thorough study of 

 the genus Hippocampus, the results of which have not yet 

 been published, had the great kindness to give us information 

 about the validity of the above species. We agree with him, 

 that GONTHER and most later authors were wrong in uniting 

 H. kuda with H. guttulatus Cuv. from the Atlantic. Lastnamed 

 species has more dorsal rays (D. 18 22, generally 19) and 

 more caudal rings (33 40, generally 38). 



5. Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach. 



Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, Zool. Miscellany, 1814, p. 104. 



Hippocampus mannulus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1370. 



Hippocampus kampylotrachdos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, 



p. 107. 



Hippocampus manmilus Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish. 1856, p. 14. 

 Hippocampus manadensis Bleeker, Beschrijv. nieuwe vischsoorten van Manado en 



Makassar, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. I. 1856, p. 79. 

 Hippocampus mannulus Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poissons, II. 1870, p. 515. 

 Hippocampus manadensis Dume'ril, 1. c. p. 523. 

 Hippocampus kampylotrachdos Dumeril. 1. c. p. 524. 



Hippocampus trimaculatus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mas. VIII. 1870, p. 204. 

 Hippocampus trimaculatus Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 682 (p.p.). 



D. 19 21; A. 4; P. 17; Rings 114-3842. 



Head 1.3 1.6 in trunk. Trunk 1.8 2 in tail. Snout slender, 

 more or less conspicuously curved upwards, 1.6 1.9 in head, 

 about one to two eyediameters longer than postorbital part 



