106 THE SHORE FISHES. 



spine longest, 2.05 in head; longest soft ray 2.31; base of soft dorsal 1.85; 

 anal III, 11, second anal spine equal in length to the third, 3.70 in head; 

 longest anal ray 2.64, anal base 1.68; pectoral 1.54; scales 8(9)-52-12. In 

 the transverse series from lateral line downward and backward to anal there 

 are fourteen scales; downward and forward fourteen. The ascending limb 

 of preopercle is finely serrated for some distance above the angle. 



Color in spirits : — top of head and back very dusky, quite intense on 

 tip of snout and lower lip; below lateral line soiled silvery gray; dorsal dusky, 

 most intense on outer margin; tip of anterior rays pale; anal similar; pectoral 

 and ventral yellowish, punctulate with black; caudal very dusky, with black 

 terminal margins. 



A cotype 4 inches long has the following measurements: — 



Head 3.11 in length without caudal; depth 3.11; eye 2.88 in head; snout 

 3.71; maxillary 2.36; mandible 1.92; interorbital 3.47; dorsal IX-I, 1 1 ; fourth 

 dorsal spine longest, 1.92 in head; base of soft dorsal 1.85; longest ray 2.09; 

 anal III, 11; second anal spine equals third, 3.05; base of anal 1.52, longest ray 

 2.60; pectoral 1.52; scales 8-52-12. K. nutabunda differs most conspicuously 

 from K. sandvicensis and K. marginata in that it has a much larger eye, and K. 

 marginata has fewer scales in transverse and longitudinal series. In general 

 it is somewhat more slender than K. sandvicensis from the Paumotus, in this 

 respect being more like Hawaiian specimens; the head is not so long as in K. 

 proxijna. 



This species in general appearance closely resembles specimens of Kuhlia 

 sandvicensis from Hawaii and also specimens which we have identified as K. 

 sandvicensis. They are closely related to Kuhlia proxima Kendall and Golds- 

 borough (Bull. M. C. Z., 1911, 26, p. 282) from Fiji, and to K. marginatus. 



In two of the specimens of the present species the eye varies considerably 

 and affords no distinctive character, but it appears larger than in K. sand- 

 vicensis. 



Kuhlia sandvicensis (Steindachner). 



Moronopsis argenteus var. sandmcensis Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wein, 1876, 74, p. 206 (Beitrage 



5, p. 158). 

 Moronopsis sandmcensis Steind.ichnee, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wein, 1887, 96, p. 56 (Beitrage, 14, p. 1), 



t!lf. 1, fig. 1. 



Five specimens 2^-2? inches long from Manga Reva, February 3, 1905, 

 M. C. Z. 29440 (2 specimens). 



