none on tongue. Nostrils together, about last fifth in snout 
length. #nterorbital broadly conic. ‘ower preorbital and 
lower preopercle edge serrate, latter very finely; lower oper- 
cular spine large. Rakers’ "12+ 22, finely lanceolate, twice 
filaments or 14/5 in eye. Scales finely adherent, radiating 
basal striae 10 to 12; apical serrae 31 to 75; crculi basally 
fine with age. Fifth dorsal spine i 2/3 to 2 in head; soft 
dorsal spine 1 7/8 to 2; third anal spine 2 to 3; first 
branched dorsal ray 1 3/5 to 1 3/4; first branched anal ray 
1 7/8 to 2; caudal 1 to 1 1/10; pectoral 1 3/5 to 1 4/5; 
ventral 1 3/5 to 1s, 
Color in alcohol dark brown on back, with many of scales 
each darker or with darker spot, Sides and below with sil- 
very-white tints, Apices of dorsal and anal dusky, also 
few obscure dusky spots on soft dorsal, Caudal shaded and 
blotched obscuresy with dusky. Uther fins pele. Length 
55 to 130 mm, Six Mawaiian? (more likely Paumoto), three 
from Tahiti, one from Samoa and one from Fiji. A small ex- 
ample without date may be Samoan? 
Kuhlia sandvicensis (Steindachner). 
Head 3 1/5 to 3.1/4; depth 2 2/3 to 2 3/4; D. IX or X, 
9 to I, 11; A. III, ii, 1; scales 49 or 50 in lateral line to 
caudal base above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 11 
to 13 below; predorsal scales 12 or 13; snout 3 7/8 to 4 in 
head from upper jaw tip; eye 2 7/8 to 3 1/5; maxillary 23 
to 2 3/5; interorbital 3 1/10 to 3 1/4, 
