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* Synopsis of the Fishes of South Australia. 

 PART III. 



By A. Ztetz, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., etc. 



[Read April 6, 1909.] 



I'amily, SYNGNATHTD-^ (continued from vol. xxxii., 



p. 399). 



70. Hippocampus abdominalis, Kaup. 

 Coorong, South Australia. 

 Distribution — South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania. 



Family, PEGASID^. 

 Genus, Pegasus, Linn. (1758). 



72. Pegasus lancifer, Giinth. 

 Spencer Gulf, dredged by Dr. J. C. Verco. 

 Distribution — South Australia, Tasmania. 



Family, SCOMBRESOCID^. 

 Genus, Scombbesox, Lacep. (1803). 



72. Scombresox forsteri, Cuv. and Val. 



Hist. Nat., Poiss., xviii., 1846, p. 481. McCoy, Prod. Zool., 

 Vict., dec. xiv., pi. 135, fig. 2. (Bill Fish.) 



Distribution — New South Wales, Victoria, South Aus- 

 tralia. 



Genus, Hemirhamphus, Cuv. (1817). 



73. Hemirhamphus intermedius, Cant. 



Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist., ix., 1842, p. 485. McCoy, Prod. 

 Zool., Vict., dec. xiv., pi. 135, fig. 1. (Sea Garfish.) 



South Australian coast. 



Distribution — Queensland, New South Wales, South 

 Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania. 



Genus, Exoc^tus, Linn. (1758). 



74. Exocaetus evolans, Linn. 



Syst. Nat., ed. xii., 1766, p. 521. Day, Fish of India, pi. 

 cxx., fig. 5. (Flying Fish.) 



Gulf St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf. 



Distribution— Seas of temperats and tropical zones 

 {Gtinther) . 



