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Descrilx'd from a specimen from Kotosho (Hotel Tobago Island), 

 collected by Yonetaro Kikuchi. 



Habitat: Kotosho (Botel Tobago Island). A single specimen. 



Remarks: Macropodiis viridi-aiiratits Lacepfede'" = Macropodus ven- 

 ustiis Cuv. & V'al., may be identical with the present species. Accord- 

 ing to the description and figure by Cuvier and Valenciennes it is 

 provided witii a distinctly forked caudal, instead of forming a bundle 

 of long filaments as in M. filamentosiis. 



Family KUHLIID.E. 

 Genus Kuhlia Gill. 



1861. Kuhlia Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., p. 48. (Type Perca ciliata 



Cuv. & Val.) 

 1863. Moronopsis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 82. (Type Dules mar- 



ginala Cuv. & Val.) 

 1872. Paradules Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. Dierk. I, p. 257. (Type Dules 



marginaia Cuv. & VaL) 



Body elongate, fusiform. Head conical. Six branchiostegals. 

 All the teeth villiform, without canines; teeth on the palatine bones. 

 Anterior dorsal fin sustained by nine spines, the posterior with a spine 

 and about eleven articulated rays; anal fin with three spines. Oper- 

 culum with two or three flat spines; pre-operculum serrated. Scales 

 moderate, minutely serrated. 



Distribution: Rivers of the intertropical regions (Java, Philippines, 

 India, Ceylon, Formosa, Japan). 



59. Kuhlia marginata (Cuv. & Val.). 

 Dokugyo (Japan). 



1829. Dules marginata Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, p. 116, PI. LII; Java. — 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish., I, 1859, p. 268; Seas of Java, Amboyna, Vanicolo, 

 Fiji Islands.— Day, Fish. Brit. India, 1876, p. 67, PL XVIII, Fig. i; Seas 

 of India, Malay Archipelago. 



1903. Kuhlia marginata Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 

 p. 340; Kotosho, Formosa. — Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 XXVIII, 1907, p. 254; Mindoro Island. — Jordan & Richardson, Mem. 

 Carneg. Mus., IV, no. 4, 1909, p. 183; Formosa. — Jord.an, SnIi'der & 

 Tan.ak.\, Journ. Coll. .Sci., Tokyo, XXXIII, 1913, p. 146; Japan. 



Head 3.19 in length; depth 2.69; D. X, 11 ; A. Ill, 10; P. 14; V. I, 5; 

 width of head 1.86 in its length; eye 4.5 in head; interorbital space 3; 



^'^ Macropodus viridi-auratus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 417, PL 

 16, Fig. I. 



Macropodus venuslus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, p. 375, PL 197. 



