STDPIES IN ArsrilAr.IAN KISHFS McCUI.LOfH. 55 



Moronupsis, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. l^hilad., lS(i8, p. S2 (Ihihs 

 inargiiiatits, Cuv. and Val.). 



Paradules, Bleeker, Nederl. Tijd. Dierk., i., 1868, p. 257. 



Herops, De Vis, Proc. Limi. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 81)2 (11. )„innhi, 

 De Vis). 



J^onlenr/erlna, Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., 1906, p. 512 (DnJcs 

 mato, Lesson) — not of DoUo, 1886. 



Sofole, Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlii., 1912, p. 655 (Ihilcs fceuiHrns, 

 Cuv. and Val.). 



An examination of a cotype of Herops mmuhi, De Vis, proves it to 

 be a species of Kiililia, so that the synonymy of this genus must be 

 rendered as above. 



Kdhlia mdxda, Ve Vis. 



Herops nriinda, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 392. 



Lules hiintilis, De Vis. Hid., p. 396. 



Knhlia hmnilis, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 10, 1911, p. 46, pi. vi.. Kg. 1. 

 Id., Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1913, p. 880, tig. 69a. 



Bules nitens, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales (2), ii., 1887, 

 p. 4. Id., Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1914, p. 340. 



KnliVni main (part), Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish. (2nd ed.), i.. 1895, 

 p. 40 — not of Cnvier and Valenciennes. 



Kiildia proxinid, Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxvi., 

 1911, p. 282, pi. iii., fig. 2. 



Sijiinni/iii I/. — An example 126 mm. long from the snout to the eiul of 

 the middle caudal raj's, is in the Australian Museum, labelled as " J)tth's 

 viinidii ; Cardwell." It was received from Mr. De Vis by Mr. Ogilby in 

 1886, and as it agrees in all details with the description of Herops niiiiidn, 

 De Vis, it is evidently a cotype of that species. This specimen only 

 differs from Ogilby's description and figure of Kuhlia hi(iii'dis, De Vis, in 

 having the eye somewhat larger, it being 2'86 in the length of the head, 

 less the mandible, instead of 275 ; the two species are therefoi-e apparently 

 synonj-mous. I have further compared it with the holotype of Kiild'm 

 nitens, Ramsay and Ogilby, which is 236 mm. long, and have found it 

 similar in all sti'uctural details ; some slight differences in the proportions 

 of the eyes, head, and depth ai'C evidently due to the different sizes of the 

 two specimens. 



I am indebted to Mr. Ogilby for the suggestion as to the identity of 

 De Vis' puzzling genus. 



Lor. — Cardwell, Queensland ; cotype of Herops muiida. Port Moresby, 

 New Guinea; holotype of Thdes nitens. 



