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but H. aterrimus. Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder resembles //. kuda, but seems to be well 
distinguished by its smoother body, the spines of which are not enlarged at intervals. The coronet of 
H. kelloggi resembles that of H. aterrimus, rather than that of /7. kuda, but the posterior point is double. 
65. Hippocampus barbouri Jordan & Richardson, new species. 
Head 1.25 in trunk; trunk in tail 2.50; depth 1.50 in head; body rings 11; tail rings 35; dorsal 
rays 19 or 20, the fin situated on 14 body and 1} tail 
rings; snout equal to distance from anterior margin 
of orbit to upper posterior corner of operculum; eye 
2.50 in snout; supraorbital spines prominent, simple, 
acute; nasal spine sharp, directed obliquely forward; 
coronet moderately low, its depression bounded by five 
points, two anterior, one posterior, and two postero- 
lateral; lower breast spines and cheek spines double on 
each side; spines of body prominent, larger at intervals, 
mostly acute, the larger ones sometimes rather rounded, 
but slfarp-edged; spines of both head and body without 
tentacles. 
Color light brown, the body more or less marbled 
and everywhere specked or reticulated with darker; 
snout and top of head crossed by numerous wavy lines 
of blackish; eye with similar wavy lines of dusky 
arranged radially; dorsal crossed submarginally by a 
prominent longitudinal dusky bar and at middle by a 
fainter one. 
Three specimens, two males and one female, 4 
inches long, from Cuyo. The type is no. 61683 U.S. 
National Museum; the cotypes no. 20205, Stanford 
University. 
On the life colors of the specimens from Cuyo, 
Mr. McGregor writes as follows: ‘General color dark 
dull green, lighter and more yellowish on ventral 
surface; interorbital, sides of face, chin, throat, and 
upper part of neck clear light yellow, speckled with 
rows of fine black dots; on the tube the dots are in 
transverse rows, on the body the rows are broken up or 
wanting.” ~ : 
This species appears to be near Hippocampus angustus, described by Doctor Giinther from Frey- 
cinet Harbor, Northwest Australia, but the body is deeper and the coloration is somewhat different. 
This species is named for Thomas Barbour, of Harvard University, in recognition of his work on the 
fishes of the Indies. 
F 1G. 8.—Hippocampus barbouri, new species. Type. 
Family HOLOCENTRID&. 
MYRIPRISTIS Cuvier. 
66. Myripristis murdjan (Forskil). Mangoc. 
One example, 4.50 inches long, from Cagayancillo. Color in life crimson; under parts strongly 
washed with rosy; a dark spot behind opercular spine and another in axil of pectoral; dorsal membranes 
light colored and without opaque white spots. 
67. Holocentrus lacteoguttatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Holocentrum lacteoguttatum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., mt, 1829, 214; Indian Ocean, Voy. Peron. 
Holocentrum punctatissimum Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., p. 215; Caroline Islands (et al. acct.). 
Holocentrum stercus-muscarum Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., vm, 1831, 503; Guam. 
