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or brownish spot in young, these spreading to form broad marginal 

 bands in adult ; soft dorsal and upper and lower margins of 

 caudal often nari-owly edged with white ; soft vertical fins usually 

 with one or more series of spots. 



Indo-Pacific, from Africa to the Paumotu Archipelago. Twenty- 

 six specimens, 85 to 400 mm. in total length. 



2. KUHLIA CiERULESCENS, sp. n. (Text-fig. 68.) 

 KuJilia nipestris (part.) Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 36 (1895). 

 Depth of body 3 in the length, length of head 34-. Snout | dia- 

 meter of eye, which is 3| in length of head ; interorbital width 3|. 

 Maxillary extending to below middle of eye ; upper opercular 

 spine nearly as strong as lower ; 7 gill-rakers on lower part of 

 anterior arch. 41 scales in lateral line, 4g from sheath at base of 



Text-fig. 68. 



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Head of KvMia ccerulescens. 



spinous dorsal to highest part of lateral line, 9| thence to base of 

 pelvic fin. Dorsal X 11 ; origin in advance of base of pelvics ; 

 fifth spine longest, f length of head ; last as long as seventh, 

 I length of head. Anal III 10; third spine ^ length of head ; 

 base I length of head or 1| as long as caudal peduncle. Pectoral 

 less than f length of head. Caudal slightly emarginate, with 

 rounded lobes. Caudal peduiacle 1^- as long as deep. Bluish 



