CONTRIBUTION 



TO THE 



ICHTHYOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA. 



II.— NOTE ON SOME SOUTH AUSTEALIAN FISHES. 



I have received from Mr. Waterhouse, the able and indefati- 

 gable Curator of the South Australian Museum, a most interest- 

 ing series of small fishes, collected by himself in the St. Vincent's 

 G-ulf, by means of a trawl. A considerable number appear new, 

 and others are only imperfectly known. I intend, in the next 

 volume of the publications of this Society, to give a full account 

 of them, but I think it is only doing justice to Mr. 

 Waterhouse to give here a list of the species, and a short 

 diagnostic of his new discoveries. I just follow the order of his 

 invoices : — 



1. Hippocampus Breviceps. — Peters. 



2. Bhillopteryx Elongatus. — Cast. 



Differs from Foliatus by its being of a smaller size ; the body 

 much more elongate in both sexes ; its foliated appendices 

 much shorter, broader, and of an oval form. 



3. Syngnatkus Pceciloloemus. — Peters. 



4. Leptoichthys Fistularius. — Kaup. 



5. Stigmatophora Argus. — Bichard. 



6. Syngnatkus Curtirostris. — Cast. 



The snout is contained three times in the length of the 

 head. Of a dark brawn ^colour, with silvery spots on the 

 head and anterior part of the body. 



