NEW OR INSUFFICIENTLY' DESCRIBED FISHES. 47 
Uniform silvery, darker on the back. Lobes and tips of the 
rirmer caudal rays dark brown. 
Described from a Queensland specimen 128 millim. in total 
length, 102 to the root of the caudal fin. 
This speeies differs from Kuhlia mato (Lesson),* with which it 
was associated by Boulenger,f in the following characters among 
•others : — 
Depth of body 2"66 or less, length of head 3'33 or less in length of body ; 
snout 1'5 or less in eye; interorbit 3 in head; scale-formula 
5-6/53-56/14-15 ; fifth dorsal spine longest ; anal longer than its distance 
from caudal, which is deeply forked, its middle rays 2*5 or less in 
;the outer Mato. 
Depth of body 2*5, length of head 2"85 in length of body ; snout 1*35 in eye ; 
interorbit 3*6 in head ; scale formula 4/50/11 ; fourth dorsal spine 
longest ; anal nearly twice as long as its distance from caudal, which is 
deeply emarginate, its middle rays 1*6 in the outer Humilis. 
CHEILODIPTERJDiE. 
AMIA BEKTHJE sp. nov. 
MANY-BANDED PERCELLE. 
PI. v, fig. 1. 
D. vii, i 9 ; A. ii 8 ; P. 16 : Sc. 2/23/8. Depth of body 2'5, 
'length of caudal peduncle 4*8, of head 2'6, of caudal fin 3*8, of 
pectoral 4*15, of ventral 3*7 iu length of body. Depth of caudal 
peduncle 2*33, length of snout 3*8, diameter of eye 3, width of 
interorbit 4, length of maxillary 2, longest dorsal spine 1'9, longest 
ray 1*6, second anal spine 2*6, longest ray L'6 in length of head. 
Body robust, the dorsal contour much more arched than the 
ventral, its depth a little more than the length of the head ; caudal 
peduncle short and deep, its least depth 125 in its length. Upper 
* Lesson's name not only has page-precedence over that of Cuvier and Valen- 
ciennes, but the latter authors took their description from Lesson's figure only {Nous 
ne connaissons encore cette espece que par un dessin fait d'apres nature ) not from 
the fish itself as did the former author. That Lesson's name was spelt incorrectly, 
possibly through a mere clerical or press error, does not invalidate its or its 
author's claim. 
The true K. mato, the type-locality of which is Tahiti, though said to range 
jfrom the Hawaiian Archipelago eastward and southward as far as the Cape Seas, 
has not been as yet recorded from Australia ; it is therefore possible that the South 
African and Mauritian species may on further examination prove, like the 
Australian, to be separable. 
f No blame can be attached to Dr. Boulenger for this erroneous identification, 
ifor the description of Dales humilis is so drawn up that, without exam- 
ination of the type, it would be impossible to place it with any certainty. For 
instance, the length given by its author — 4 inches — is that of the body (s c.), but in 
the comparative measurements, while the depth of the body is given to that scale, 
the length of the head is taken from the total length (c.c. ) of 5 inches. 
