96 CENTRA KCHID.E. 



large ciliated scales; angle and lower border of pvseoperculum finely 

 denticulated ; lower opercular spine long. 23 to 26 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal X 9-11, originating just behind vertical 

 of axilla ; fifth or fourth and fifth spines longest, f to f length of head, 

 longer than anterior soft rays ; tenth spine as long as or longer than 

 ninth, as long as third or shorter. Anal III 10-11, as long as or 

 slightly longer than its distance from caudal ; third spine a little longer 

 than second, as long as tenth dorsal. Pectoral f length of head. 

 Caudal deeply forked, median rays J to | length of outer. Scales 50- 

 55 j3^. Silvery, bluish grey on the back ; top of soft dorsal blackish ; 

 caudal with five black bands, one along the middle rays and two pairs 

 converging jjosteriorly ; young with a dark streak on each side of the 

 back, below the base of the dorsal. 



Total length 200 millim. 



East Africa, I.vlands of Indian and Tropical Pacific Oceans, New 

 South Wales. — 'i'ype in Paris Museum. 



1-2. Hgr. Socotra. Prof. 1. B. Balfour (C). 



3-5. Yg Mombasa. A. Blayney Pcrcival, Esq. (P.). 



6. Yg. Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk (C.)- 



7. Ad. Seychelles. S. Ward, Esq. (P.). 

 8-9. Hgr. Port Natal. Mr. T. Ayres (( ^). 



10. Hgr. S. Africa ? Sir A. Smith (P.). 



11. Ad. Mauritius. Uoyal College of Surgeons. 



3. KUHLIA MALO. 



Dules malo, Vwx. & Val. Hist. Poiss. vii. p. 179 (1831) ; Giintli. Cat. Fish. i. 



p. 270 (1859). 

 Dules mato, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 223 (1831); H. W. Fowler, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. Iviii. 190G. p. 512. 

 Bides marginatus, part., Gllnth. Fische Siidsce, p. 21 (1873). 

 Moronopsis argenteus, var. stwdvicens'is, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixxiv. i. 187(s 



p. 205. 

 Dides humilis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ix. 1881, p. 39(5. 

 Moronopsis sandvieensis, Steind. Sitzb, Ak. Wien, xcvi. i. 1887, p. 50, pi. i. W'^. 1. 

 Kiildia malo, Bouleno-. Cat. Fisb. i.p. 10 (1895) ; Steind. Uenkscbr. Ak. Wicn,lxx. 



1900, p. 183; Jord. & Evorm. Bull. U.S. Fisb. (^omm. xxiii. 1905, p. 207. 

 J)ules mar(jh)atn<t homnensis, H. W. Fowler, t. c. p. 510, fig-. 

 Kuhlii huitiilis, Douglas Ogilby, Ann. Queensl. J\lus. x. 1911, p. 10, pl. vi. fig. 1 ; 



RcSau, Proc. Zoul. Soc. 1913, p. 380, fig. 



