CONTEIBUTION 
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 
Gulf, 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. Hipjpocampus Breviceps. — Peters. 
2. Phillopteryx Blongatus. — 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. Syngnafhus Pmcilolaemus. — Peters. 
4. Leptoichthys Fistularius. — Kaup. 
5. Stigmatophora Argus. — Eichard. 
6. Syngnatlius Curtirostris. — Cast. 
The snout is contained three times in the length of the 
head. Of a dark brewn ^colour, with silvery spots on the 
head and anterior part of the body. 
