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Family, MYCTOPHiDiE. 



Genus, Aulopus, Cuv. (1817). 



55. Aulopus purpurissatus, Rich. 



Icon. Pise, 1843, p. vi., pi. ii., fig. iii. McCoy, Prod. Zool. 

 Vict., dec. vi., pis. lit. and Iv. (Sergeant Baker.) 



South Australian and Victorian coasts, New South 

 Wales, and AVestern Australia. 



Family, SYNGNATHID^. 



Genus, Syngnathus, Linn. (1758). 



56- Syngnathus curtirostris, Cast. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., vol. ii., p. 79. 

 Spencer Gulf, dredged (Dr. J. C. Verco). 



57. Syngnathus semifasciatus, Giinth. 

 Cat. Fish., viii., p. 162. 



Spencer Gulf, dredged (Dr. J. C. Verco). 

 Whidbey Island, near Coffin Bay. 



Distribution-South Australia, Port Phillip (Victoria), 

 Tasmania. 



58. Syngnathus poecilolaemus, Peters. 

 Giinth. Cat. Fish., viii., p. 174. 



Gulf St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, dredged (Dr. J. C. 

 Verco) . 



59. Syngnathus pelagicus, Linn. 



Gtinth. Cat. Fish., viii., p. 165. 



Spencer Gulf, dredged (Dr. J. C. Verco). 



Distribution — Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Falk- 

 land Islands, New Zealand, China, Mauritius, South Aus- 

 tralia. 



60. Syngnathus olivacea, Cast. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., vol. ii., p. 77. 



Gulf St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf. 



61. Syngnathus argus, Rich. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc, iii. p. 183, pi. vii., fig. ii. 

 Gulf St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, Fowler Bay. 

 Distribution — New South Wales, South Australia. 



Genus, Ichthyocampus, Kaup. (1853). 

 62. Ichthyocampus filum, Giinth. 

 Cat. Fish., viii., p. 178. 

 Spencer Gulf, dredged (Dr. J. C. Verco). 

 Distribution — Western Australia, South Australia. 



