KLTHLIA. 93 



1. KUHLIA RUPESTRIS. 



Cenlropomus riipestris, Ijacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. pp. 2o2 & 273 (1802). 



Ferca ciliata, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 52 (1828). 



IMesfuscus, Cuv. & Val. op. cit. iii. p. 118 (1829) ; Peters, Mon. Beil. Ac. 1855, 



p. 432 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. i. p. 2G8 (1859) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 10 



(18G8); Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 149, pi. xv. fig. 4 (1891). 

 Dales rupestris, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 119, and vii. p. 477 (1831) ; Bleek. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. vi. 1854, p. 209; Giinth. t. c. p. 2G8 ; Sauv. op. cit. 



p. 150, })1. xli. B. fig. 3. 

 Dales (juamensis, Cuv. & Val. op. cit. vii. p. 474 ; Honibr. & Jacq. in Dumont 



d'Urv. Voy. Pole Sud, Poiss. pi. iii. fig. 1 (1840); Gunth. t. c. p. 269; 



Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. viii. 1883, p. 257. 

 Dales vanicolensis, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 478 ; Hoinbr. & Jacq. 1. c. fig. 2. 

 Percichthys ciliata, Giinth. t. c. p. (^2. 

 Kulilia ciliuta, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 18G1, p. 48. 

 Paradules riqyestris, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 18G5, ]). 276. 

 Moronopsis rupestris, Bleek. Arch. Neerl. vii. 1872, p. 379, and Atl. Ichthyol. vii. 



p. 121, pi. cccxlix. fig. 2 (1876). 

 Dales maryinatus, Day, Fish. Ind. ]). 67, pi. xviii. fig. 1 (1875). 

 Dales hasivellii, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. v. 1880, p. 359. 

 Moronopsis fascas, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixx'xii. i. 1881, p. 240. 

 Kahlia rupestris, Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 36 (1895) ; PfefF. Thierw. O.-Afr., 



Fische, p. 3, fig. (1896) ; Seale, Occas. Pap. B. P. Bishop Mus. i. 1903, p. 75 ; 



Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 375. 

 Kulilia rupestris hedleyi, Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxii. 1897, 



p. 767. 

 KuJdia ccerulescens, Regan, t. c, p. 376, fig. 

 Kuhlia saiivagii, Regan, t. c. p. 377. 



Depth of body 2 J to 3 times in total length, length of head 2| to 3:^ 

 times. Snout as long as or a little shorter than diameter of eye, which is 

 3^ to 5 times in length of head ; interorbital width 3 to 8^ times in length 

 of head ; lower jaw projecting ; maxillary extending to below anterior 

 third, centre, or posterior third of eye, the width of its distal extremity 

 ^ to I diameter of eye ; top of head rugose ; cheek and opercle with large 

 ciliated scales; lower border of praeoperculum finely denticulate, entire 

 in old specimens ; lower opercular spine strong, usually much stronger 

 than upper. Gill-rakers 17 or 18 on lower part of anterior arch. 

 Dorsal X 11, originating above or just behind vertical of axilla; fifth, 

 or fourth and fifth spines longest, ^ to f length of head, shorter than 

 anterior soft rays; last spine much longer tlian penultimate, as long as 



