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115000, Hull Island channel, July 8-12, 1939, 3 specimens. 



115002, Canton Island, reef on ocean side, April 25-28, 1939, 12 specimens. 



A study of the above series of specimens, including very small ones 

 up to large adults, and a comparison of these with two paratypes of 

 Kuhlia hilurmlata Herre, 1935, taken at the Fiji Islands indicate that 

 Herre's hilunulata is the same as K. sandvicensis. 



KUHLIA PETITI, new species 



Figure 7 



• Bolotype.—k. specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 114986) 108 mm. in length 

 from tip of snout to base of caudal fin rays, taken on the reef at Hull 

 Island, July 12 to 15, 1939, by L. P. Schultz, along with 69 paratypes 



(U.S.N.M. No. 114991). 



Figure 7. — Kuhlia 



petiti, new species: Holotype (U.S.N.M. No. 114986), 108 mm. in 

 standard length. 



Additional paratypes were taken as follows: No. 114990, Canton 

 Island channel and lagoon, April 24, 1939, 18 specimens; No. 114988, 

 Enderbury Island reef. May 15-19, 1939, 11 specimens; No. 114992, 

 Hull Island channel, July 8-12, 1939, 20 specimens; No. 114989, Canton 

 Island reef on ocean side of rim, April 25-28, 1939, 3 specimens; No. 

 114987, Canton Island lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 2 specimens. 



Descnption. — [Measurements of the holotype are given first and 

 detailed measurements of 6 paratypes in parentheses. All measure- 

 ments are expressed in hundredths of the standard length, length 

 from tip of snout to base of caudal fin rays 108 mm. (101.5 ; 113.5 ; 95 ; 

 93; 61; and 116 mm.)]. Length of head 28.3 (30.5; 28.2; 28.4; 28.1; 

 29.0; 27.8) ; greatest depth of body at origin of spiny dorsal 34.0 (39.5 ; 

 35.3; 34.4; 35.6; 33.8; 33.6) ; least depth of caudal peduncle 11.1 (11.8; 

 11.5; 11.5; 11.7; 11.5; 11.2) ; length of caudal peduncle 23.0 (21.2; 24.3; 

 24.0; 23.6; 22.6; 23.3); width of bony interorbital 8.5 (9.4; 8.8; 8.4; 

 9.6; 9.0; 8.6) ; diameter of eye 9.2 (9.7; 8.8: 9.5; 9.7; 9.7; 9.4; length 

 of snout 7.2 (7.6; 7.1; 7.1; 7.5; 7.0; 6.9); length of maxillaries 10.5 

 (11.4; 10.6: 10.5; 10.4; 11.3; 10.3); postorbital length of head 11.0 



