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on the membranes with yellowish white interspaces and with a black anterior 

 upjier angle and margin; soft anal similarly coloretl with a row of black spots 

 on scales at base; pectoral soiled yellowish externally, with a black base behind, 

 and a dusky cross bar near the base; ventrals yellowish translucent with the 

 outer membranes somewhat dusky; caudal with spots similar to soft vertical 

 fins, the extremities of the caudal lobes black with narrow white margin on the 

 upper and lower edges of the lobes; the ends of all the rays black making a 

 narrow terminal margin of black. 



Kuhlia maculata (Cuviku & ^'ALENCIENNEs). 



Duhs maculaltis Cuv. & V.u,., Hist. Nat. PoUs., 1831, 7, p. 357 (475). 



? Moronopsis ciliatus Bleeker, Atlas lohfh., 1876, 7, ]). 120 (in part) tab. Pprc, 38, fig. 1. 



Plate ,), fif/itrc I. 



Eight specimens, Nos. 08996-99, 08802-3, 08805, 08832, 4 to 5| inches from 

 Kusaie, Caroline Islands. M. C. Z. 29369 (2 specimens). 



In the following, measurements are given of our largest specimen (145 mm.) 

 and in j^arentheses the average measurements of the eight examples: 



Head in length to Inise of caudal 3.28 (3.275); depth 2.67 (2.86); eye 2.91 

 (2.838); snout 4.12 (4.185); maxillary 2.33 (2.32); interorbital 3.5 (3.47); 

 soft dorsal base 1.59 '1.675); anal base 1.20 (1.298); longest dorsal spine (fifth) 

 1.84 (1.81); last dorsal spine 2.50 (2.26); longest anal spine (third) 2.69 (2.59); 

 pectoral 1.45 (1.47); ventral 1.45 (1.47); dorsal IX, I, 11, (12 rays in one speci- 

 men) ; anal iii, 11 in 3, 12 in 5 specimens; scales 5 or 6-42-7 or 8. 



The shape and form of this species is similar to that of K. malo; i5re()rl)ital 

 serrated; preopercle finelj'^ serrated on its lower limb, the ascending limb entire, 

 except at the upjier end where there are a few minute teeth, and it is not concave. 



General color of this species is the same as that of K. malo, but the dorsal 

 differs in having the membrane of the sjjinous dorsal not so dusky and with no 

 spots on soft dorsal or f)n scales at base; the soft dorsal is entirely dusky, most 

 intense at upper anterior angle and along upper margin, with an indication of a 

 longitudinal darker dusky band just above its base; the tips of rays are white; 

 the fine scaly sheaths at the base of the soft dorsal and anal are dusky and with- 

 out spots ; the soft anal not spotted as it was in the other, but the rays are dusky, 



