96 CEKTEAKCHID.E. 



large ciliated scales ; angle and lower border of prseoperculum 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 -| 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 -| length of head. 

 Caudal deeply forked, median rays j to § length of outer. Scales 50- 

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

 caudal with five black band-;, 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 "Wales. — Type in Paris Museum. 



1-2. Hgr. 



Socotra. 



Prof. I. B. Balfour (C). 



3-D. Yg 



Mombasa. 



A. Blayney Percival, Esq. (P.). 



6. Yg. 



Zanzibar. 



Sir J. Kirk (C). 



7. Ad. 



Se} T chelles. 



S. Ward, Esq. (P.). 



8-9. Hgr. 



Port Natal. 



Mr. T.Ayres ((!.). 



10. Hgr. 



S. Africa ? 



Sir A. Smith (P.). 



11. Ad. 



Mauritius. 



Royal College of Surgeons. 



3. KUHLIA MALO. 



Pules malo, Guv. & Yal. Hist. Poiss. vii. p. -179 (1831) ; Giinth. Cat. Pish. i. 



p. 270(1859). 

 Bides mato, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii. p. 223 (1831); H.Y\\ Fowler, Proc. Ac. 



Philad. lviii. 1906. p. 512. 

 Ihdes marginatus, part., Giinth. Fische Siidsee, p. 2-1 (1873). 

 Moronopsis argenteus, var. sandvicensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxxiv. i. 1876, 



p. 205. 

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

 Moronopsis sandvicensis, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, xcvi. i. 1887, p. 56, pi. i. fig. 1. 

 Kuhlia malo, Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 40 (1895) ; Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixx. 



1900, p. 483 ; Jord. & Evorm. Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. xxiii. 1905, p. 207. 

 Dales marginatum boninensis, H. W. Fowler, t. c. p. 510, fig. 

 Kuh.Ha humilis, Douglas Ogilby, Ann. Queensl. Mus. x. 1911, p. 46, pi. vi. fig. 1 ; 



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



