282 EXPEDITION OF THE " ALHATIiOSS," 1899-1900. 



most intense at about the middle of their length and near the ends; membrane 

 between the sjjines and 1st ray entirely tliisky and the middle duskiness of the 

 other rays sometimes extends a little on the membranes presenting a sort of 

 interrupted longitudinal band; margin of fin similar ti) that of the other 

 specimen. 



Bleeker's figure in Atlas Ichth., 8, Perc. tab. 46, fig. 2, resembles our speci- 

 mens in shape, but the spots are scarcely indicated on the body and there are 

 none on the dorsal, anal, or caudal. The description of Perca ciliata Kuhl & 

 Van Hasselt in the Hist. Nat. Poiss., 2, jx 38, of Cuvier & Valenciennes, does 

 not agree with our specimens. In the description of Dales ttKirginatiis Cuvier it^ 

 Valenciennes, ibid., p. 87, there are a few points that apply to our specimens, 

 but in coloi' ours bear no resemblance to the figure. 



Kuhlia proxima, sp. nov. 



/■'/((//■ .)', fif/iiri' ..'. 



Type No. (35889 U. S. N. M. (field no. 08920), 5 inches long from Fiji Is- 

 lands. Cotype No. 29420 M. C. Z. (field No. 08919), 3| inches long from the 

 same place. 



Head 3; depth 2.(i0 in Ixidy; eye 2.53 in head; snout 4.12; maxillary 2.35; 

 interorbital 3.(36; base of soft dorsal 1.94; last dorsal spine 2.75; longest dorsal 

 spine (hfth) 1.65; longest dorsal ray 1.94; base of anal 1.57; longest anal spine 

 (third) 2.53; longest anal ray 2.53; pectoral 1.65; ventral 1.65 (not quite to 

 vent); dorsal X, I, II; anal III, 11 ; scales 5 (6)-52-9. No. 08920 has D. IX, 

 I, 11. 



Body similar in sha]ie to A', sdiidvicensis; eye large, snout short; maxillary 

 reaching to anterior edge of pupil; lower jaw projecting; preopercle serrate on 

 both limbs, its ascending limb not concave; ]ireorbital serrate on its lower 

 anterior edge; scales moderate, rather closely imbricated, decreasing in size to 

 the base of the caudal. 



Color generally silvery, darker on liack; snout and lower jaw dusky; the 

 membranes of spinous and soft dorsal and anal soiled dusky, extreme edge of 

 dorsal black but not making a l)lack border; a broad dusky terminal margin 

 to the caudal, most intense at end of middle rays. This species differs from 

 A', sandvicentsia in the longer head; much larger eye; in having the ascending 



