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LOPHOBRANCHII. 
rayed, very long, extending beyond the origin of the anal, coalesced with its inner side 
to the integuments of the body, both ventrals forming the egg-sac. 
Ground-colour generally brown, minutely dotted with black and whitish. Dorsal 
tin with a large bluish-black ocellus between the first and second and second and third 
rays ; the top of the fin of a beautiful purplish red, the remainder marbled like the 
body. Caudal with numerous small, oval, purple spots and dots. 
In a second variety the markings are the same ; but the ground-colour is rosy, and the 
markings are purplish brown. 
Length from 4 to 5 inches. 
Zanzibar. East- Indian archipelago. 
Kaup {Cat. Loph. Fish. p. 2) states that in the males of 8. par adoxum the egg-pouch 
is formed by the union of the inner edge of the ventrals to the skin of the belly, and 
that in the females the ventrals are free as in other fish. All the specimens from 
Zanzibar which have been examined have the ventrals attached to the skin of the 
belly, and all of them are females ; so that if the first part of Kaup’s remarks proves 
to be true, both sexes in this species carry eggs. 
We may state that we have ascertained by dissection that specimens having eggs in 
the ventral pouch have at the same time ova in the ovaries scarcely less developed than 
those in the pouch. 
PEGASUS, L. 
472. Pegasus draco. [443.] 
Pegasus draco, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 418 ; Bl. t. 109. f. 1 & 2 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 356, t. 12. f. 2 & 3 ; 
Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish. p. 5, pi. 1. f. 3 (not fig. 4 as stated in the list of plates). 
Catapliractus draco, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 144. 
There are two specimens in this collection. The larger one is 2 ’5 inches long; and 
the projecting part of its snout, measured from the anterior rim of the orbit, is O’ 3 inch ; 
it is considerably dilated on its lower surface, forming an oval disk. The second 
specimen is L9 inch long; and the projecting part of the snout is 0'25 inch, conse- 
quently comparatively much longer than in the other ; it is also much narrower, the 
projecting part being tetrahedral, with the sides equal and the edges strongly serrated. 
In other respects the specimens are alike. 
Zanzibar. East-Indian seas. 
HIPPOCAMPUS, Cuv. 
473. Hippocampus mannulus. 
Hippocampus mannulus, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 388, pi. 11. f. 1. 
This specimen appears to be H. mannulus , a species which apparently is distinguished 
by the frontal crest not terminating in a spinous projection in front. 
Zanzibar. Pinang. 
