98 CEXTRkRCMDM. 



third spine as long as or a little shorter or a little longer than last 

 dorsal. Pectoral f to f length of head. Caudal deeply forked, median 

 rays f to a little less than \ length of outer. Scales 50-56 {~ ro *. 

 Silvery, back darker ; caudal with bla- kish posterior edge. 



Total length 235 millim. 



Islands of the Indian and Tropical Pacific Oceans, and Queensland. — 

 No type in existence, the species being founded on a drawing of a 

 specimen from fresh- waters of Tahiti f. 



1-2, 3. Types of K. Rodriguez, fresh water. G. Gulliver, Esq. (P.). 



splendens. 



4. Skel. 



5. Type of K. splendens. Mauritius. Chatham Museum. 



6. Ad., stffd. S. Africa (?). Sir A. Smith (P.). 



4. KUHLIA CAUDOVITTATA. 



Holocentrus caudavittatus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. pp. 332 & 367 (1802). 



Dides caudavittatus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. iii. p. 117 (1829), and vii. p. 475 



(1831) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. i. p. 267 (1859) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. 



p. 151, pi. xviii. fig. 3 (1891). 

 Kuhlia caudovittata, Bouleng.Cat. Fish. i. p. 41 (1895) ; Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1913, p. 379. 

 Kuhlia boninensis (non Fowler), Regan, t. c. p. 378. 



Depth of body 2f tc 3 times in total length, length of head of to 

 4 times. Length of snout § diameter of eye, which is 3 times in length 

 of 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 nearly ^ diameter of eye ; cheek and opercle with 

 large ciliated scales ; angle and lower border of praeoperculum finely 

 denticulated ; lower opercular spine strong. 25 to 28 gill-rakers on 

 lower part of anterior arch J. Dorsal X 11-13 §, originating just behind 

 vertical of axilla ; fifth spine longest, | to f length of head, longer than 



* 4 scales from sheath at base of spinous dorsal to lateral Hue in the specimens here 

 recorded, 4 to 6 in specimens from the Sandwich Islands. 



t The identification of Dules malo will ever be a matter of uncertainty, but I cannot 

 follow Kendall and Goldsborough in transferring the name to a fish with large black spots. 



X 27 in the specimen from Tahiti preserved iu the Museum. 



§ The statement in the original description that 14 soft rays are present in the dorsal 

 is no doubt due to the last being split to the base and reckoned as two, according to the 

 custom of early ichthyologists. The specimens from Mauritius which I iave examined in 

 the Paris Museum have not more than 13. 



