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HIPPOCAMPUS EEEVICEPS 
Hip. Breviceps, Peters, Monatsler., Berlin,. 1869, p. 710. 
Gunther, Gafal., vol. viii., p. 200. 
Dorsal fins with twenty two rays ; the 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 pinged with yellow and brown ; the eye 
is yellow. 
The male has numerous filaments on the upper part of the 
head and hack they are simple, hut 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. 
Hota. — Dr. Kaup’s fig. 5, pi. 1, Lophoh., {Hip. Japonicus), 
ha.s a remarkable resemblance with this sort. 
PHTLLOPTEETX. 
Pormed by Dr. Kaup on some large Australian sorts, very 
remarkable by the Jong filaments that adorn their body. 
PHYLLOPTEETX POLIATUS. 
Syngnathus Foliatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. v., p. 456, pi. 180 
Tseniopterus, Lacep. Ann. Mm., 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. Glunther, 
“ 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 
