19S 



HIPPOCAMPUS BREYICEPS 



Hip. Breviceps, Peters, Monatsber., Berlin,. 1869, p. 710. 

 Gunther, Catal., vol. viii., p. 200. 



Dorsal fins with twenty two rays ; tlie tubercles are strong. 



The colour, during life, is of a light grey, with the inner parts 

 yellow ; these are covered with small, dark, red dots ; the other 

 parts of the body present numerous white spots, surrounded by 

 a black circle ; the tail is ringed with yellow and brown ; the eye 

 is yellow. 



The male has numerous filaments on the upper part of the 

 head and back they are simple, but inserted two by two ; their 

 colour is black, and some of them are ended by a small yellow 

 brush. The egg pouch is of a fleshy pink, edged anteriorly with 

 black. 



Seen several specimens, but never over one inch long, when 

 curled up. 



Nota. — Dr. Kaup's fig. 5, pi. 1, Loplwh., {Hip. Japonicus) , 

 has a remarkable resemblance with this sort. 



PHYLLOPTERYX. 



Pormed by Dr. Kaup on some large Australian sorts, very 

 remarkable by the Jong filaments that adorn their body. 



PHTLLOPTEBTX FOLIATTJS. 



Syngnathus Poliatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. v., p. 456, pi. 180 



— ■ Tseniopterus, Lacep. Ann. Mws., vol. iv, pi. 58 



This singular fish is said by the fishermen to be scarce ; one 

 of them told me that he had once found eighteen or twenty pairs 

 in his net, but had often been several years without finding a 

 single specimen. I have not yet seen it alive, but according to a 

 drawing made by Mr. Angus, and published by Dr. Grunther, 

 " Proc. Zoological Society," 1865, its colours seem very beautiful ; 

 but they are subject to considerable variations ; in some large 

 specimens that I have just received from Hobart Town, through 

 Mr. Lavington Roope, and which, having been only a few 

 days in liquor, still maintain much of their brillancy, I find that 

 the fish is of a fine carmine colour, covered with numerous 



