NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE 8PARIDJE— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 523 



Island, Tubuai, Paumotu Island, Tahiti).— Jordan and Starks, Fishes 

 Tanega and Yaku, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 698 (Tane- 

 gashima).— Seale, Fishes South Pacific, Bishop Mus., vol. 4, No. 1, 1906, 

 p. 34 (Fate, New Hebrides). 



Perca argentea Bennett, Fish. Ceylon, 1830, pi. 22, (Ceylon). 



Dules argenteus Klunzinger, Syn. Fische Roth. Meer., Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien., 

 vol. 20, 1870, p. 730 ("Zweibruderinsein, Koseir").— GUnther, Fische 

 Sudsee, 1873, p. 25, pi. 19, fig. C (Tahiti, Kingsmill Islands).— Day, Fishes 

 India, 1875, p. 67, pi. 18, fig. 2 (India); Fauna India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 504. 



Dules bennetti Peters, Monatsber. kon. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1855, p. 432 (Mo- 

 zambique, fresh water). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1859, vol. 1, 

 p. 270 (no locality). 



Kuhlia arge Jordan and Bollmann. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, 1889, p. 159 

 (Chatham Island, Galapagos Archipelago). — Jordan and Eigenmann, 

 Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 8, 1890, p. 419. — ^Jordan and Evermann, 

 Fishes N. and M. Amer., vol. 1, 1898, p. 1014 (Clarion Island, Chatham 

 Island), (American specimens, the eye described as a little smaller, but in 

 fact agreeing entirely with Samoan examples). 



nabitat.—Covdl reefs of the tropical Pacific from the offshore 

 islands of Mexico to Japan and East Indies. 



Description of numerous small specimens, the longest 65 mm. in 

 length, from Tanegashima, Japan, collected by Anderson and Ander- 

 son, and of two adults, 210 and 225 mm. in total length, from Okinawa, 

 one adult from Msaki, besides four from Samoa, and one ^om Lord 

 Howe Island in Austraha, agreeing with the Japanese specimens in 

 all regards. Specimens typical of KvMia arge from offshore islands 

 of Mexico are also included. 



Head 3§ in body length; depth 2f; eye 3 in head; snout 4; 

 maxillary, 2§; interorbital space 3; D. IX-I, 10; A. Ill, 11; scales 

 in lateral line 53, in transverse series 6^11 or 12 from insertion of 

 dorsal to* anal; gill-rakers 10 + 25. 



Body profile not symmetrical, highest part of line of back much 

 behind lowest part of belly line; that of head straight dorsally; the 

 width of body lessening quickly from above lateral line to the narrow 

 ventral edge; caudal peduncle long, from last anal rays to last ver- 

 tebra contained 1| in head, and as long as anal base. Tip of snout 

 at or above middle point of eyes. Maxillary short, not extending 

 beyond anterior third of eyes; mandible articulated under anterior 

 half of eye, its length 2| in head. Preorbital and preopercle serrated 

 very plainly, the latter's angle somewhat produced and emarginate 

 on the vertical border. Lower opercular spine not extending behind 

 upper pectoral base. Teeth on vomer and palatines rather feeble in 

 adults, those on jaws in one row laterally in mandible, in upper jaw 

 in a moderately broad band. 



Dorsal spines stiff, fourth highest, contained 1^ in head, penul- 

 timate two-thirds length of last, which is 3 in head. First ray 2^ 

 in head, twice length of last; fin base contained !§ in head. Second 

 anal spine nearly as long as third, which is one-third of head length. 



