96 CENTEAKCHID^. 



large ciliated scales ; angle and lower border of pisEoperculum finely 

 denticulated ; lower opercular spine long. 23 to 26 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal X 9-11, originating just behind vertical 

 of axilla ; fifth or fourth and fifth spines longest, f to f length of head, 

 longer than anterior soft rays ; tenth spine as long as or longer than 

 ninth, as long as third or shorter. Anal III 10-11, as long as or 

 slightly longer than its distance from caudal ; third spine a little longer 

 than second, as long as tenth dorsal. Pectoral f length of head. 

 Caudal deeply forked, median rays ^ to | length of outer. Scales 60- 

 55 jgTj^. Silvery, bluish grey on the back ; top of soft dorsal blackish ; 

 caudal with five black bands, one along the middle rays and two pairs 

 converging posteriorly ; young with a dark streak on each side of the 

 back, below the base of the dorsal. 



Total length 200 millim. 



East Africa, Islands of Indian and Tropical Pacific Oceans, New 

 South AVales. — Type in Paris jNluseum. 



3. KUHLIA MALO. 



Uules mala, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. vii. p. 479 (1831) ; Giinth. Cat. Pisli. i. 



p. 270(1859). 

 JDules mato, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 223 (1831); H. W. Fowler, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. Iviii. 1906, p. 512. 

 Dules marginatus, part., Glintli. Fisclie Siidsee, p. 24 (1873). 

 Moronopsis argenteus, var. sandvkensis, Stoind. Sitzb. Ak. Wicn Ixxiv. i. 1876 



p. 205. 

 Dules humilis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ix. 1884, p. 396. 

 Muronopsis samhicensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, xcvi. i. 1887, p. 56, pl. i. fio-. 1. 

 Kiihlia malo, Bouleng. (:at. Fish. i. p. 40 (1895) ; Steind. Dcnkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixx. 



1900, p. 483 ; Jord. & Everm. Bull. U.S. Fisli. Comm. xxiii. 1905, p. 207. 

 JDules marginatm boninensis, H. AV. Fowler, t. c. p. 510, tig. 

 Kuhlia huniilis, Douglas Ogilby, Ann. Queensl. Mus. x. 1911, p. 46, pl. vi. fig. 1 ; 



Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 380, fig. 



