NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE 8PARIDM— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 525 



2. KUHLIA MARGINATA (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 DOKTJGYO (poison perch). 



Dules marginata Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, p. 116, 

 pi. 3 (Java). — Bleeker, Sumatra, Nat. Tidj. Ned. Ind., vol. 3, 1852, p. 573, 

 (Padang).— GxJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 268, (Java, 

 Amboyna; Fiji); Fische Siidsee, 1873, p. 24 (Sumatra, Java, Amboyna).— 

 Day, Fishes India, 1875, p. 67, pi. 18, fig. 1 (seas of India). 



Paradules vmrginatus Bleeker, Ned. Tidj. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 257. 



Kuhlia marginata Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 2d ed., vol. 1, 1895, p. 38 

 (New Guinea, etc.). — Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 

 16, 1896, p. 48. — ^Jordan and Evermann, Fishes Formosa, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 340 (Kotosho). — Ishikawa, New and Little Known 

 Fish., Proc. Dep. Nat. Hist. Tokyo Imp. Univ., vol. 1, 1904, p. 9, pi. 3, fig. 1 

 (Wadamura and Tojingawa, Idzu, Japan). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. 

 U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 27, 1908, p. 233 (Aparri, Mindoro, P. I.); Fish. Formosa, 

 Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 1909, No. 4, p. 183; Check List P. I. Bur. Sci. 

 Publ., No. 1, Manila, 1910, p. 25. 



Dules maotfotus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 475 

 (Celebes).— ?Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 5, 1853, p. 33 (Amboyna), 

 (said to be different from Dules viarginata Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Dules vialo Hombron and Jacquimot, Voy. Pole Slid. Dumont d'Urville, Poiss., 

 1846, pi. 3, fig. 4 (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Moronopsis dliatus Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Soc. HoU. Sciences, Harlem, vol. 7, 

 1872, p. 376 (Java, Bali, Sumatra, Nias, Celebes, Batjan, Euro, Amboyna, 

 Ceram), (composite species?). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 7, p. 120, pi. 

 316, fig. 1; pi. 324, fig. 2 (localities as above), (not of Kuhland Van Hasselt). 



f Dules ciliatv^ Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 237 (New 

 Guinea), {="marginatus, maculatv^, malo."). 



Dules papuensis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 8, 1883, p. 257 (New 

 Guinea, Goldie River). 



Dules species? Ishikawa, Prel. Cat. Tokyo Imp. Mus., vol. 1, 1897, p. 55 (Wada- 

 mura, Izu, Japan). 



Habitat. — East Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Seas. 



Description of a specimen from Kotosho, Formosa, 138 mm. in 

 total length; 7 from Apia, Samoa, the longest 145 mm.; 2 from 

 Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 210 and 140 mm. in length; that from 

 Formosa described in particular. Measurements include lower jaw. 



Head 2>\ in body length; depth 2|; eye 31 in head; maxillary 2J; 

 snout 3J; interorbital space 3J; D. X, 11; A. Ill, 11; scales in lateral 

 line 42, in transverse series 5J-8 between insertions of dorsal and 

 anal; gill-rakers on lower limb of first arch 16; branchiostegals 6. 



Body symmetrical on upper and lower outlines, evenly arched; 

 body not much thinner ventrally; depth of caudal peduncle 2f in 

 head, its length 1§ in head. Tip of snout at level of center of 

 eyes ; nostrils nearer tip of snout than center of eye ; maxillary ending 

 under anterior half of pupil; length of mandible half that of head, 

 ending below center of eye. Preorbital coarsely serrate, its teeth 

 directed more backwards than in K. rupestris. Preopercular margin 

 more finely serrate, vertical edge slightly emarginate, horizontal one 



