258 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Apr., 



of pectoral above with blackish spot. Dorsal reddish. Pectoral, 

 ventral and anal mostly yellowish. Caudal olivaceous-green with 

 faint vertical streaks. Iris reddish. Color later faded, generally 

 brownish above, whitish below. Fins all brownish. Iris slaty. 

 Teeth whitish. The smaller examples lack most of the brilliant 

 colors of the adults. Length 64 to 110 mm. 



This brilliant species was taken in a large seine near Kingston on 

 February 12, 1914. As it is apparently rare and little known, I have 

 given the above notes, and also a figure of the largest example. 

 Cope originally gave a very crude figure and incomplete account of 

 the coloration. His type has been examined and compared in the 

 present study, and although greatly faded there is no doubt as to 

 the identification. Cryptotomus crassiceps T. H. Bean,^ from Ber- 

 muda, is also a synonym. 



Sparisoma abbotti sp. nov. Fig. 2. 



Head 3i; depth 24; D. IX, 10, i; A. II, 9; P. ii, 11; V. I, 5; 

 scales 25 in 1. 1. to caudal base, and 2 more on latter; 2 scales above 

 1. 1. to spinous dorsal origin; 6 scales below 1. 1. to anal origin; 3 

 median predorsal scales; 3 median scales on breast before ventral 

 origins; head width 2 in its length; head depth at occiput about 1; 

 snout 2f ; eye 4^; maxillary 4; interorbital 4; first dorsal spine 3; 

 first dorsal ray 2y; first anal ray 2|; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2|; caudal IJ; pectoral If; ventral 1|. 



Body moderately ovoid in general contour, compressed, deepest 

 about opposite middle of pectoral, edges mostly rounded, though 

 postventral with slight median keel and one on each side. Caudal 

 peduncle compressed, about long as deep. 



Head compressed, deep, profiles similarly convex, and flattened 

 sides verj^ slightly constricted above. Snout convex over surface, 

 slightly so in profile, and length about | its width. Eye rounded, 

 high, close to upper profile, and hind edge midway in head length. 

 Mouth terminal, with commissure extending about half way to front 

 eye edge, and inclined slightly down anteriorly. Maxillary mostly 

 concealed. Lips thin, little free. Teeth as nearly even cutting- 

 edges, incisor-like, smaller in upper jaw, and in lower as about 4 

 oblique appressed series along each mandibular ramus as seen exter- 

 nally, tipper dental area with 6 external canines placed on outer 

 surface, all flare outward, canine-like, slightly curved, inner pair 



1 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, February 26, 1906, p. 37; Field Columb. Mus. 

 Pub., lOS, Z. Ser., VII, No. 2, 1906, p. 70, fig. 9. 



