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ish, line of demarcation from level with eye to caudal base medially 

 distinct, with paler brownish color below. Body everyAvhere with 

 obscm-e paler or whitish dots or specks, and many obscure darker 

 reticulations above and on side of head. Snout, cheek and head 

 above with many brownish dots. An obscure pale streak from 

 rictus across chin. Pectoral axil and suprascapula with dusky- 

 brown tinge. Pectoral base with row of fine whitish dots. Ver- 

 tical fins pale brownish, specked or dotted with darker and whitish. 

 Pectoral and ventral pale, latter whitish terminally. Length 139 mm. 

 Type (cotype) of S. hoplomystax Cope, No. 9,305, A. N. S. P. 



Also Nos. 9,306 and 9,307, and 9,283 to 9,285, cotypes, A. N. S. P. 

 These show: Head 2f to 3; depth 2f to 2f ; D. IX, 10; A. II, 9; scales 

 23 in 1. 1. to caudal base and 2 more on latter; snout 2| to 2* in head; 

 eye 4 to 4^; mouth 4| to 5f; interorbital 4j to 5^; length 112 to 

 123 mm. 



57. Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valen- 60. S. flavescens (Schneider). 



ciennes). Recorded by Cope as Scarus 



58. S. ahildgaardi (Bloch). radians. 

 *59. S. distinctum (Poey). 



61. Callyodon punctulatus (Valenciennes). 



One example, listed by Cope as Scarus psittacus and wrongly 

 included as a synonym of Scarus taeniopterus Desmarest by Jordan, i" 

 who thinks Scarus diadema Valenciennes a synonym of the present 

 species. While doubtless his material agrees with the account by 

 Valenciennes," C. punctulatus is distinguished from C. diadema by 

 having its anal fin medianly throughout speckled with dusky. C. 

 diadema agrees, however, in the presence of the yellow transverse 

 line connecting the eyes across the interorbital. In C. taeniopterus 

 this is not present, though there is a rather broad yellowish band 

 forward from front edge of eye towards end of snout, there meeting 

 its fellow. 



62. C. diadema Valenciennes. 63. C. taeniopterus (Desmarest). 

 *64. C. croicensis (Bloch). 



Five small examples appear to belong here as they have 2 rows of 

 cheek scales, a rounded caudal and without hind canines above. 

 Although in bad preservation traces of the 2 dark longitudinal bands 

 may be made out. Largest 64 mm. 



" Rep. U. S. F. Com., XV, 1887 (1891), p. 683. 

 " Hist. Xat. Poiss., XIV, 1839, p. 146. 



