FISHES OF TUE GENUS KUIILIA. 381 



10. KUHLIA SANDVICENSIS. 



Moronojjsis argeiiteus, var. sandvicensis Steind. Sitzungsb. Akad. 

 Wien, Ixxiv. 1876, p. 205. 



Moronopsis sandvicensis Steind. ih. xcvi. 1887, p. 56, pi. i. f. 1. 



Kuhlia malo (part.) Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 40 (1895). 



IKuhlia xemcra Jord. & Everm. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xivii. 

 1896, p. 1015. 



Depth of body 2f to 2f in the length, length of head 3i to 3|. 

 Snout f to f diameter of' eye, which is 2f to 3 in length of heaxl ; 

 interorbital width 3^ to 4. Maxillary extending to below anterior 

 edge or anterior | of eye. 25 to 28 gill-rakers on lower part of 

 anterior arch. 48 to 52 scales in lateral line, 5 or 6 from sheath at 

 base of spinous dorsal to arch of lateral line, 11 to 13 thence to base 

 of pelvic fin. Dorsal X 11 ; fifth spine longest, ^ to f length of 

 head ; last a little shorter than seventh, |- to i length of head. 

 Anal III 11 ; third spine as long as tenth dorsal; base of fin 

 nearly as long as head or 1| to 14 as long as candal peduncle. 

 Pectoral f length of head. Caudal deeply forked, middle rays 

 less than | as long as longest. Caudal peduncle Ij to 1^ as long 

 as deep. Silvery ; back darker ; caudal with narrow blackish 

 posterior edge ; dorsal and anal sometimes similarly margined. 



Eastern Pacific. 



Six specimens, 90 to 240 mm. in total length, from the Sand- 

 wich Islands and Tahiti. 



11. Kuhlia mutabunda. 



Kuhlia mittahunda Kendall & RadclifFe, Mem. Mus. Comp, 

 Zool. XXXV. 1912, p. 105, pi. iii. f. 1. 



This species fi-om Easter Island, described above (p. 369, 

 PL LVI.), differs from K. sandvicensis especially in the shorter 

 anal fin. 



12. Kuhlia t^niura. 



Dules tceniurus Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii. p. 114 

 (1829). 



Kuhlia iceniura Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 39 (1895) (with 

 synonymy). 



KiMia sterneckii Steind. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, cvii. 1898, 

 p. 461, pi. 



This species is at once distinguished by the coloration of the 

 caudal fin, with five black bands, a median longitudinal and two 

 on each. lobe. I am unable to regard Steindachnei-'s K. sternechii 

 as distinct, for the relative length of the ninth and tenth dorsal 

 spines varies considerably, and they are equal in 4 or 5 of the 

 20 specimens I have examined. 



The species ranges throughout the Indo- Pacific, from Africa to 

 the Eevillagigedo Islands. 



