94. LABKID.E PLATYGLOSSUS. 603 



946. P. radiatus (L.) J. & G. Blue-fisli; Doncclla. 



Adult brilliant azure-blue, eacli scale edged with bright pearly green; 

 a longitudinal blue band on anal; margin of dorsal light blue; young 

 (" cyanostigma") brownish, a light-blue spot on the base of each scale; 

 head with spots and stripes of bright blue; dorsal with 4 lines of stripes 

 and blotches and a broad edge of blue; caudal with a broad white mar- 

 gin, the outer rays blue, the base of the fin spotted with blue; anal with 

 border and two longitudinal stripes of blue, besides a blue spot at the 

 base of each ray ; pectoral with first 5 rays and a transverse line blue. 

 Head 4; depth 3. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 2-28-10. L. 16 inches. 

 West Indies, north to Key West. 



(Spar us radiatus Lhmieus, Syst. Nat. xii, 472, 1766: JiiUs cyanostigma, prineipis, and 

 patatus Cav. & Val. xiii, 391-398: Flatyglossus cyanostigma Giiutlier, iv, 1G1 : Platy- 

 glossus prineipis Giiiither, iv, 164: ClxcrojuHs radiatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas. v, 

 35.) 



947. P. grandisquamis (Gill) J. & G. 



Color, in spirits, dark chestnut or brownish red ; a very dark vertical 

 spot bordered by steel-blue, behind the opercle; anal fin faintly barred; 

 caudal marbled, and with a marginal dark baud. Body rather short 

 and stout. Profile slightly convex. Maxillary nearly reaching front of 

 orbit. Dorsal spines short, rather stiff. Caudal fin subtruncated. Head 

 3; depth 3. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; Lat. 1. 27. Beaufort, N. C. 



(Chcerojulls grandisquamis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 206.) 



94. P. liunicralis (Poey) Gtlir 



A black spot, edged with pearl color posteriorly, on the extremity of 

 the operculum; a brown band from the snout through the eye and the 

 opercular spot across the bend of the lateral line to the base of the 

 caudal; a second from below the axil along the side of the belly; a 

 bluish streak, edged with darker, from the eye obliquely upward and 

 backward, meeting its fellow on the nape; base of pectoral whitish, 

 without black spot ; caudal truncate, with blue angles. A black baud 

 along the middle of the dorsal fin is described by Dr. Giiuther, but is 

 wanting in the specimens seen by us. Head 3| ; depth 3f. D. IX, 11; 

 A. Ill, 11; scales 2-29-10. Coast of Cuba, north to Florida. 



(Julis humcralis Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 212, 1858; Giinther, iv, 165: Chcerojulis humeralis 

 Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S..Nat. Mus. 1879, 338.) 



949. P. semicincius (Ayres) Giinther. -Kelp-fish.. 



Dark greenish brown, with bright reflections; head bronze-green 

 above; three or four narrow, horizontal, wavy blue bauds below the 



