ADDENDA 94. L ABRIDGE PLATYGLOSSUS. 937 



dark-bronze stripe from pectoral backward; each scale of sides with a 

 greenish-blue crescent; sides of head orange; a blue wavy stripe below 

 eye, turning downward on subopercle; opercle with a(u indigo spot, 

 bordered by bluish and yellow; tip of opercle yellow, the color bounded 

 by a blue <-shijped line; lower jaw with bands of orange and whitish; 

 a small inky spot at base of last ray of soft dorsal; dorsal cherry-red, 

 with translucent bands; caudal reddish; anal banded with red and 

 pale; pectorals yellowish; ventrals white. Body slender; snout not 

 very sharp; posterior canine small. Dorsal spines low, stiff and pun- 

 gent; caudal short, obliquely truncate. Head 3; depth 4 (4f in total). 

 D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 1^-26-8. L. 3f inches. Pensacola Bay. 

 Old specimens, (Charleston, S. C.) are deeper-bodied and have the 

 posterior part of the caudal, especially the angles, black or dark-blue, 

 the basal part of the fin with concentric, convex, broad streaks of or- 

 ange, with narrower bluish interspaces; the dorsal is largely orange, 

 with a median blackish or brown baud, which is otteu obsolete, its base 

 with crimson spots; anal with a crimson band and some bluish streaks. 

 Black spot at base of last dorsal ray disappearing with age. Females 

 with the dark lateral band less distinct, the colors duller, the dark 

 dorsal band more distinct than in the males. Head 3| ; depth 3, in 

 adult. jSTorth Carolina to Surinam. 



To the synonymy add: 



(Lttbnts Uritiatus Bloch, Ichthyol. taf. 284, f. 1; Julis psittaculuis C. & V. xiii, 387; 

 Giinilier, iv, 164; Steiudachuer, Ichthyol. Notiz. vi, 49, 1867 : Platyylossus florealls Jor. 

 &, Gilb. Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 287: Platyglossus grandisquamis and humeraUs, 

 this work, p. <j03.) 



948 (ft). P. caudalis (Poey) Gthr. 



Olivaceous; a row of sky-blue spots on each side of back; a broad' 

 area of orange, intermingled with violet spots, extending along sides, 

 most conspicuous anteriorly ; below this a band of pale violet, becoming 

 posteriorly spots of deep violet; still lower a deep yellow baud bound- 

 ing the white of the belly; preorbital and suborbital scarlet, with 3 

 blue stripes, marked with cherry-red; cheeks below yellowish; oper- 

 cles bright red, with 3 oblique violet stripes, the upper forming behind 

 eye an oblique blotch, in the middle of which is a round ink-like spot; 

 no opercular spot; dorsal orange, the soft part with 3 rows of violet 

 spots; caudal orange and blue, the former color arranged in 1 longi- 

 tudinal, 2 marginal, and 2 converging bands, which are joined by re- 

 ticulations around bluish spots; anal with a basal row of orange spots, 

 then blue spots, then a yellow baud, then blue, then finally edged with 



