294 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Syngnathinae 



Sxngiiatliiis poccilolaemiis Peters. 

 philUpi Lucas. 

 „ vercoi sp. nov. 



,, cnrtirostris Castelnau. 



Leptonotus costatus sp. nov. 

 Histiogamphehts rostratiis sp. nov. 

 Iclitliyocanipiis cristatiis McCulloch and Waite. 

 Lissocainpus caiidalis gen. et sp. nov. 

 Leptaichthys fistiilarius Kaup. 

 Stiginntopora argus Richardson. 

 nigra Kaup. 



HiPPOCAMPINAE 



Solegjiathiis robust us McCulloch. 

 Ph\lloptcr\x foliatus .^haw. 

 ,, eqnes Gunther. 



Acentrounra australe sp. nov. 

 Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson. 



iiovac-hollandiae Steindachner. 



brcviceps Peters. 



All the species are figured, mostly from ])hotographs of specimens in this 

 Museum taken l)v H. M. Hale. It should be noted that in such as are bent to 

 economise space, it has not been possible to maintain the dorsal side of the tail 

 uppermost. Three of the illustrations have been previously pubhshed by McCul- 

 loch or Waite. 



The numbers of fin rays and annuli. as expressed at the head of the descrip- 

 tions, indicate the \ariations foiuid in specimens examined by us ; the figures 

 within brackets show the wider range recorded by others. 



Writers have frequently used the term "South Australia" in the sense of 

 Southern Australia, and species taken in Port Philip, for example, have been 

 thus subsequently included in the fauna of our State. Such an instance we 

 believe to be furnished by Leptonotus semistriatus Kaup, which so far as we 

 know does not occur here, its place being taken by L. costatus. though "South 

 -Australia" is given as the type locality for the former species. 



SYNGNATHUS Linnaeus, 1758 (acus). 



^^'e have not here used Cor\thoiclith\s ( Kai,v6o';-i)(fivi) as distinct from 

 Syngnathus. KauiJ. who founded the genus, does not give satisfactory generic 



