. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 102 BULLETIN 18 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 115000, Hull Island channel, July 8-12, 1939, 3 specimens. 115002, Canton Island, reef on ocean side, April 25-28, 1939, 12 specimens. A study of the above series of specimens, including very small ones up to large adults, and a comparison of these with two paratypes of Kuhlia hilurmlata Herre, 1935, taken at the Fiji Islands indicate that Herre's hilunulata is the same as K. sandvicensis. KUHLIA PETITI, new species Figure 7 • Bolotype.—k. specimen ( No. 114986) 108 mm. in length from
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 102 BULLETIN 18 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 115000, Hull Island channel, July 8-12, 1939, 3 specimens. 115002, Canton Island, reef on ocean side, April 25-28, 1939, 12 specimens. A study of the above series of specimens, including very small ones up to large adults, and a comparison of these with two paratypes of Kuhlia hilurmlata Herre, 1935, taken at the Fiji Islands indicate that Herre's hilunulata is the same as K. sandvicensis. KUHLIA PETITI, new species Figure 7 • Bolotype.—k. specimen ( No. 114986) 108 mm. in length from tip of snout to base of caudal fin rays, taken on the reef at Hull Island, July 12 to 15, 1939, by L. P. Schultz, along with 69 paratypes ( No. 114991).. Figure 7.—Kuhlia petiti, new species: Holotype ( No. 114986), 108 mm. in standard length. Additional paratypes were taken as follows: No. 114990, Canton Island channel and lagoon, April 24, 1939, 18 specimens; No. 114988, Enderbury Island reef. May 15-19, 1939, 11 specimens; No. 114992, Hull Island channel, July 8-12,1939,20 specimens; No. 114989, Canton Island reef on ocean side of rim, April 25-28, 1939, 3 specimens; No. 114987, Canton Island lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 2 specimens. Descnption.—[Measurements of the holotype are given first and detailed measurements of 6 paratypes in parentheses. All measure- ments are expressed in hundredths of the standard length, length from tip of snout to base of caudal fin rays 108 mm. (; ; 95; 93; 61; and 116 mm.)]. Length of head (; ; ; ; ; ); greatest depth of body at origin of spiny dorsal (; ; ; ; ; ); least depth of caudal peduncle (; ; ; ; ; ); length of caudal peduncle (; ; ; ; ; ); width of bony interorbital (; ; ; ; ; ); diameter of eye (; : ; ; ; ; length of snout (; ;
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