Re: 
GARMAN: SOME FISHES FROM AUSTRALASIA. 239 
at each side of it, and at each side of the three there is a line of much larger 
dots. The beak is black and the black extends back on each side of the head 
to below the eye. The upper jaw and the orbits are black. The crown is 
dotted and puncticulate with black. 
Suva, Fiji Islands. 
Zenarchopterus maculosus, sp. nov. 
Plate 5, Fig. 4. 
Debhs A. TOs Li 445° Btr. 8: 
Length of head two and two-fifths times in the total length, or two and one- 
sixth times in the length to the caudal. Length of lower jaws, forward of 
intermaxillary, one-fourth of the total without the caudal. Intermaxillaries 
as wide as the eye, wider than long, rounded in front. A tubular nostril. 
Eye large, one-eighth of the entire head, little less than supraorbital width, 
equal width of upper jaws. Beak with a dermal expansion below and a pro- 
longation at the tip. Dorsal in the hindmost one-fourth of the total length ; 
first ray forward of that of the anal ; base less than two-thirds as long as the 
head. Base of anal little more than half the length of that of the dorsal ; first 
ray of the fin below second ray of dorsal. First ray of ventral at hindmost 
one-third of the total; fin not reaching the anal. Bases of ventrals little 
nearer to bases of pectorals than to base of caudal. Caudal rounded. 
Black of jaws extending on the side of the face to below the eye. <A broad 
band of blackish from opercle to base of caudal on the middle of the flank, 
inferiorly fading to round spots in each of which there is a central dot of light 
color, white or bluish. Back and belly lighter, dotted with brown. Dorsal 
blackish toward its margins. 
Suva, Fiji Islands. 
Gymnothorax nebulosus AHL; Bu. Scun. 
Suva Reef, Fiji Islands. 
Gymnothorax pictus AHL; BL. Scuy. 
Suva Reef; Nukulau Island, Fiji Islands. 
Syngnathus conspicillatus Jey. 
Plate 5, Fig. 2. 
Three miles south of Suva lightship. 
