FISHES OF TUE GENUS KUULIA. 377 



silvery ; a dark spot at base of ench scale ; cheeks and opercles 

 spotted ; soft dorsal and anal with longitudinal bands or series of 

 spots ; caudal with broad dark band jjosteriorly. 



Solomon Islands. 



A single specimen, 290 mm, in total length, from Stirling 

 Island. 



This species is near K. sauvagii, but has the coloration of 

 K. rnpestris. Sauvage's figure of the former agrees with the 

 example in the British Museum collection, and difiers from the 

 type of K. cceridescens in the much smaller upper opercular spine 

 and the mox'e posterior origin of the dorsal fin. 



3. KUHLIA SAUVAGII, Sp. n. ' 



Dules fuscus {nou Cuv. & Val.) Sauvage, Hist. Madag., Poiss. 

 p. 149, pi. XV. f. 4 (1891). 



? Moronopsis fuscus Steind. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, ixxxii. 

 1881, p. 240. 



Depth of body 2| in the length, length of head 85. Snout 

 f as long as diameter of eye, which is 3 in the length of head and 

 equal to the interorbital width. Maxillary extending to below 

 anterior ^ of eye ; lower opercular spine much stronger than 

 upper; 16 or 17 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 44 

 scales in lateral line, 4 between sheath at base of spinous dorsal 

 and ai'ch of lateral line, 10 thence to base of pelvic fin. Dorsal 

 X 1 1 ; origin above base of pelvics ; fifth spine longest, f length of 

 head; last Jiearly as long as seventh, k length of head. Anal III 

 10 ; base nearly as long as head or nearly twice as long as caudal 

 peduncle ; third spine less than | length of head. Pectoi-al | 

 length of head. Caudal slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 

 a little longer than deep. Silvery, back darker ; sides with 

 scattered rounded or crescentic reddish-brown spots ; soft dorsal 

 and anal spotted ; caudal with dark membrane and pale rays. 



Madagascar. 



The above description is based on a single specimen, 150 mm. 

 in total length, from Imerina, Madagascar, which evidently 

 belongs to the same species as the example of 300 mm., also from 

 Madagascar, figured by Sauvage. This larger fish has, of course, 

 shorter spines, a smaller eye, etc., and in it the maxillary almost 

 reaches the vertical from the middle of the eye. 



Dr. Pellegrin has kindly examined the types of Dides fuscus 

 Cuv. & Yal., two examples only 4 inches long, and writes that the 

 maxillary extends slightly beyond the vertical from the middle of 

 the eye. There can be little doubt but that these are specimens 

 of K. riqyestris. 



4. KUHLIA URVILLII. 



Kuhlia tirviUii Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 38 (1895). 



This species is based on a coloured figure in Dumont D'Urville's 

 'Voyage an Pole Sud,' which represents a fish of 160 mm. very 

 similar to K. marginata, but with the last dorsal spine longest of 



