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Records of the S.A. Museum 



130 mm.: several examples dredged in Spencer Gulf by Sir Joseph Verco, and a 

 single specimen collected in St. \'incent Gulf by Mr. P. Geisler. 



Colours. Male : Head and snout brown above with white mottlings : oper- 

 cular ridge with five dots along its length, decreasing in size backwards: chin 

 opalescent witli white markings. Body brown above, ventral surface lighter: 

 back with about sixteen pairs of irregular, whitish spots between the nape and 

 the end oi the tail: upper half of each lateral body scute with a brown bar: 

 anterior part of lower lateral ridge with a row of seven white spots decreasing 

 in size liackwards : ventral riilge l)lack. Brood-pouch whitish, streaked with 

 brown: sub-caudal scutes light brown with a dark brciwn spot on each side of 

 the anterior edges. Caudal fin dusky. 



40. Sviii^nitth Its l^liillipl , malt' and female. 



Female. The colouration of the head differs somewhat from that of the 

 male. U])per side of the head and snout pale brown, darker on the occiput: 

 undersi<le with a row of dark brown <lots on each side, extending from the 

 anterior portion of the snout to the termination of the opercular ridge: two dots 

 lielow the lower posterior edge of the eye. Three irregular rows of dark spot'^ 

 nn the anterior ventral surface of the body. 



Hah. \\'estern and South Australia and \'ictoria. 



SYNGNATHUS VERCOI sp. nov. 



IcIitJiyncaiiit^its fUuin YauVa, T.R.S., S.A., 1908, p. 298 (not of Gunth.). 



