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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in life, trunk below middle row of rings yellowish golden, above middle row blackish brown 
on orange ground; knobs orange; lower portion of knobs on 8 to 11 rings spotted with dark brown; 
side and top of tail same as back of trunk; ventral side pale dirty orange; head, crown and snout dirty 
dark brown; an orange band across snout and one before eyes; pale brownish golden over gills; chin 
orange; iris yellowish golden with 8 reddish streaks radiating from pupil; fins pale; a red spot before 
each eye at each side of preorbital spine. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, upper surface with dark brown marblings; side with small roundish 
dark spots. 
The above description is from the type, No. 50625, U. S. Nat. Mus. (field No. 03835), a specimen 
2.6 inches long, obtained at Kailua, Hawaii, where the species was new to the natives. We have 5 
other examples, each about 3 inches long, taken from the stomach of a dolphin ( Coryplixna sp. ) which 
was captured at Hilo, July 18, 1901. 
When fresh, No. 03507, a male, was pink or pale cardinal along and near the keels; plates on back 
and above middle row of knobs on side mottled blackish on pale red ground; plates below middle row 
of knobs and on belly porcelain white; egg-pouch uniform pale cardinal-red, paler than rest of body; 
tail same pink or pale cardinal, mottled with blackish blotches; top of head and crown blackish on 
pale red; cheek, jaw, and snout pink. Some examples had ventral side of tail and portion behind 
fourth prominent spine of tail uniform pale cardinal-red. 
Hippocampus fisheri Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (April 11, 1903), 169, Kailua, Hawaii. 
Genus 67. DORYRHAMPHUS Kaup. 
This genus differs from Siphostoma chiefly in the position of the egg-pouch of the male, which is 
under the abdomen instead of the tail. The angles of the body are strongly ridged. Tail shorter than 
body. Tropical seas. 
Doryrhamphus Kaup, Lophobranchii, 54, 1856 ( excisus ). 
C/ueroichthys Kaup, op. cit., 55 (valencienni) . 
Doryichthys Kaup, op. cit., 56 ( bilineatus ). 
Microphis Kaup, op. cit., 63 ( cuncalus ). 
Belonichthys Peters, Reise Nach Mosambique, IV, Flussfische, 109, taf. 20, fig. 5, 1868 (zambezensis) . 
