34 Fishes of the South Pacific. 
Faminy KUHLIIDA. 
Kuhlia malo (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Depth 2.85; head 3.30; eye 3; D. x, 11; A. 111, 11; interorbitals 
3.50; scales 6-54-14. 
Body oblong, strongly compressed, scaled; head compressed; 
eyes large; mouth large, protractile, the lower jaw the longest; 
nuchal region, cheeks and opercles scaled; snout about equal to 
eye; maxillary exposed, without a supplemental bone, its distal 
end on a line with anterior of eye; teeth villiform in jaws, vomer, 
palatines, entopterygoids and ectopterygoids; six branchiostegals; 
pseudobranchize present; 24 gill-rakers on lower arch; opercles 
with 2 spines; caudal peduncle long, its depth 2 in length. Fins: 
dorsal notched, the fifth spine the longest, 3.50 in head; ninth 
spine much shorter than tenth; longest ray equal to fifth spine; 
base of anal equal to head; pectorals 1.50 in head; ventrals 1.75 in 
head; caudal deeply forked, the lobes equal. 
Color silvery, the spinous dorsal and caudal tipped with dusky; 
the soft dorsal with a dusky submarginal patch, and a narrow mar- 
gin of white. 
Three specimens from Tubuai, Austral Ids., Nos. 737, 736, 
73°, b. MM: 
One specimen, No. 1537 B. M., from Tahiti. 
One specimen, No. 2471* B. M., from Makatea, Paumotu Ids. 
Kuhlia teniura (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Three specimens, Nos. 870, 871 and 1020 B. M.., from Faté, 
New Hebrides, 
FamiIty SERRANIDA. 
Cephalopholis argus (Bloch). 
Four specimens, Nos. 696*, 697*, 1428 and 1429 B. M., from 
Tahiti, Society Ids. 
One specimen, No. 773 B. M., from Tubuai, Austral Ids. 
One specimen, No. 1998* B. M., from Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 
One specimen, No. 799* B. M., from Mangareva. 
Two specimens, Nos. 2165-2166 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 
quesas Ids. 
Two specimens, Nos. 1238 and 1264 B. M., from Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
These specimens correspond in every respect with the descrip- 
tion and with Bleeker’s figure, Atl. Icth. Tab. CCCXX, fig. 3. 
Cephalopholis urodelus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Color in life, red, with two oblique white bands on caudal. 
One specimen shows some indistinct white dots over the body. 
No. 835 has a dark spot on the opercles; the others have not. 
Two specimens, Nos. 835 and 817 B. M., from Mangareva. 
