KUHLIA. 



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2. KUHLIA T^NIURA. 



Bides tceniurus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. iii. p. 114 (1820) ; Bl. ok. Veil). Batav 



Gen. xxii. 1840, Perc. p. 49 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. i. p. 207 (1850) ; Kner, 



Novara, Fische, p. 47 (1865). 

 T'erca argentea, Benn. Pish. Ceylon, pi. xxii. (1830). 

 Tfides bennetti, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1855, p. 432 ; Gunth. t. c. p. 270. 

 Dales argenteus, Klunz. Verb. zooL-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 187U, p. (>2 ; Giintb. 



Fische Siidsee, p. 25, pi. xix. fig. C (1873) ; Day, Fisb. Ind. p ti7, pi. xviii. 



fig. 2 (1875) ; Waite, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S.W. (2) ix. 1804, p. 217. 

 Paradules tceniurus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. 1871, p. 130. 

 Moronopsis tceniurus, Bleek. Arch. Neerl. vii. 1872, p. 74, and Atl. Ichtbyol. vii. 



p. 110, pi. cccxlv. fig. 5 (1870). 

 Moronopsis argenteus, Klunz. Fische Roth. Mecr. p. 25 (1884). 

 Kuhlia arge, Jord. & Bollm. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. 1880, p. 150 ; Jord. & 



Eigenm. Bull. U.S. Fisb. Coram, viii. 1800, p. 410. 

 Kuldia tmdura, Jord. & Bollm. 1. c. ; Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 30 (1805) ; Jord. 



& Everm. Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. xxiii. 1005, p. 202, fig. ; Regan, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1013, p. 381. 

 Kuldia sterneckii, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cvii. i. 1808, p. 401, pi. — . 



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

 3 1 times. Snout § diameter of eye, which is 2| to o\ times in length ot 



Fife- 77. 



Kuhlia taniura. 

 Mauritius. %, 



head and equals interorbital width ; lower jaw projecting ; maxillary 

 extending to below anterior border or anterior third of eye, the width 

 of its distal extremity 4 to ^ diameter of eye ; cheek and opercle with 



