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blue except for gray edging ; head below livid olive. Dorsal light 

 yellowish, tips of spines and rays normally blue, base of soft part 

 blue; anal bluish-gray, with deep blue band at base and edge; 

 pectoral blue-gray, edged with bright blue above, tips broadly 

 orange; caudal blue-green, with a lunate yellow band, behind this 

 a deep blue-band, tips of rays pale, outer rays deep blue, a faint 

 band of golden-gray at base; ventrals yellowish, blue anteriorly. 



145. Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Scarus aurofrenatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, XIV, 19], 1839 (San Domingo). 

 Sparisoma aurofrenatum, Jordan, Labroid Fishes, 77. 



Sides rosy, dusky olive on back and top of head ; iris red ; a 

 white streak backward from corner of mouth past eye, bordered on 

 each side by dusky ; a yellow and black blotch below lateral line 

 on third or fourth scale behind head ; dorsal yellowish, becoming 

 reddish- orange posteriorly; anal crimson, narrowly edged with black; 

 caudal pale yellowish at base, outer rays and lunate stripes across 

 middle light red, the middle rays bluish beyond, with a faint reddish 

 edge, tips of outer rays black. 



146. Sparisoma abildgaardi (Bloch). Rose Back Parrot. 



Scarus abildgaardi Bloch, pi. 259, 1791. 



Sparisoma abildgaardi, Jordan, Labroid Fishes, 78. 



Back and sides mottled olive, the scales with dark edges ; top of 

 head dark olive ; belly abruptly cherry-red or scarlet ; lower part 

 of head black, dashed with red, a pale band at base of lower jaw. 

 Lower fins scarlet, pectoral paler, caudal yellowish washed with red ; 

 dorsal dusky olive, tinged with red behind ; dorsal all red in one 

 specimen ; margin of opercle blue-black ; teeth pale. 



147. Sparisoma radians (Cuvier &, Valenciennes). 



Scants radians Cuvier & Valenciennes, XIV, 206, 1S39. 

 Sparisoma radians, Jordan, Labroid Fishes, 79. 



148. Scarus punctulatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Scarus punctulatus Cuvier A: Valenciennes, XIV, 195,1839 (Martinique); 

 Jordan, Labroid Fishes, 84. 



Back plain dusky yellow anteriorly ; scales on sides and back 

 posteriorly green, broadly tipped with yellow ; sides of head pink- 

 ish, a green stripe connecting upper side of orbits and extending 

 backward to gill-openings; lips green, the lower with an oblong 

 pinkish spot on each side, these connected or not ; the green band 

 of lower lip extending backward under eye to gill-opening ; breast 

 plain bluish ; dorsal dull orange, its margin and base green, and 

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