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1. KUHLIA RUPESTRIS. 

 Cenlropomus Tiqiesiris, liaccp. Hist. Poiss. iv. pp. 252 & 273 (1802). 

 Perca dliata, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 52 (1828). 

 Bides fuscus, Cuv. & Val. op. cit. iii. p. 118 (1829) ; Peters, Men. Berl. Ac. 1855, 



p. 4,32 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. i. p. 268 (1859) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 10 



(18G8); Sauv. Hist. MaJag., Poiss. p. 149, pi. xv. fig. 4 (1891). 

 Dules rupestris, Cav. & Val. t. c. p. 119, and vii. p. 477 (1831) ; Bleok. Nat. 



Tijdsclir. Nederl. Ind. vi. 1854, p. 209; Giintli. t. c. p. 2G8; Sauv. op. cit. 



p. 150, pi. xli. B. fig. 3. 

 Bides guamensis, Cm. & Val. op. cit. vii. p. 474; Hombr. & Jacq. in Dumont 



d'Urv. Voy. Pole Sud, Poiss. pi. iii. fig. 1 (184G) ; Giintli. t. c. p. 269; 



Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. viii. 1883, p. 257. 

 Bides vanicolensis, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 478 ; Hombr. & Jacq. 1, c. fig. 2. 

 Perciclitliys cdiata, Giinth. t. c. p. G2. 

 Kiddia cill.ta, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 48. 

 Paradides rupestris, Bloek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 1865, p. 276. 

 Moronopsis rupestris, Bieek. Avcb. Neerl. vii. 1872, p. 379, and Atl. Ichthyol. vii. 



p. 121, pi. cccxli.x. fig. 2 (1876). 

 Bules marginatus, Day, Fish. Ind. p. 67, pi. xviii. fig. 1 (1875). 

 Bides haswelUi, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. v. 1880, p. 359. 

 Moronopsis fuscus, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. i. 1881, p. 240. 

 Kiddia rupestris, Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 36 (1895); Pfcff. Thierw. O.-Afr., 



Fische, p. 3, fig. (1896) ; Seale, Occas. Pap. B. P. Bishop Mus. i. 1903, p. 75 ; 



Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 375. 

 Kiddia rupestris hedlei/i, Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxii. 1897, 



p. 767. 

 Kiddia ccerulescens, Regan, t. c. p. 376, fig. 

 Kiddia sauvagii, Regan, t. c. p. 377. 



Depth of body 2| to 3 times in total length, length of head 2| to 3^ 



times. Snout as long as or a little shorter than diameter of eye, which is 



3j to 5 times in length of head ; interorbital width 3 to 3^ times in length 



of head ; lower jaw projecting ; maxillary extending to below anterior 



third, centre, or posterior third of eye, the width of its distal extremity 



^ to f diameter of eye ; top of head rugose ; cheek and opercle with large 



ciliated scales; lower border of praeoperculum tinely denticulate, entire 



in old ."specimens ; lower opercular spine strong, usually much stronger 



thnn upper. Gill-rakers 17 or 18 on lower part of anterior arch. 



Dorsal X 11, originating above or just behind vertical of axilla; fifth, 



or fourth and fifth spines longest, ^ to | length of head, shorter than 



anterior soft rays ; last spine much longer than penultimate, as long as 



