/. hes of the South Pacific. 

 Family Knil.lll).];. 



Kuhlia malo Cuvier & Valenciennes , 



Depth 2.85; head 3.30; eye 3; I), x. 11; A. in, 11; interorbitals 

 3.50; scales 6-54-14. 



Bodj 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 011 a line with anterior of eye; teeth villiform in jaws, vomer, 

 palatines, entopterygoids and ectopterygoids; six branchiostegals; 

 pseudobranchke 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; veutrals 1.75 in 

 head; caudal deeply forked, the lobes equal. 



Color silvery, the spinous dorsal and caudal tipped with dusk}-; 

 the soft dorsal with a dusky submarginal patch, and a narrow mar- 

 gin of white. 



Three specimens from Tubuai, Austral Ids., Xos. 737, 7^6, 

 738 B. M. 



One specimen, No. 1537 B. M., from Tahiti. 



One specimen, No. 2471* B. M., from Makatea, Paumotu Ids. 



Kuhlia taeniura (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Three specimens, Nos. 870, 871 and 1020 B. M., from Fate, 

 New Hebrides, 



Family SERRANID.F;. 

 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 Bleekers 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. 



