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a ruddy tint and mottled with sHghtly darker spots. Caudal brown- 

 ish with slightly brownish cross-bars. Pectoral and ventral pale 

 brownish-white with slight cross-markings of a chestnut tint on latter. 

 Eye silvery. Marquesas. 



Another, from same locality, had ventral and anal more rosy-red. 

 Small ones were speckled with dusky and tinted orange-purple on 

 anal below. Spots on belly pale purple. 



66. Sparisoma flavescens (Schneider). Parrot Fish. 



Marquesas, Big Pine and Boca Chica Keys. . 



66. Pseudoscarus guacamaia (Cuvier). Parrot Fish. Green Parrot Fish. 



I saw a large example of this species swimming about the reef near 

 Snipe Key. In the water it appeared to be entirely dark green. 



CH^TODONTID^. 



67. Chaetodon capistratus LinnEeus. Butterfly Fish. 



One example seen in the reef about Snipe Key. It was very evi- 

 dently this species and measured about 5 inches in length, as far as I 

 could judge. 



68. Pomacaiitlius arcuatus (Linnceus). Black Angel. 



Color in life blackish. Bars bright lemon-yellow. Each scale on 

 side with a black spot. Iris deep blackish-brown, marginally blackish. 

 Length 4 y g" inches. 



Only one example was taken about the roots of a red mangrove in 

 the Marquesas shallows. It was also reported by several fishermen 

 as rather common about the roots of overhanging mangroves of several 

 Keys. 



69. Angelichthys ciliaris (Linnseus). Yellow Angel. Golden Angel. Blue Angel. 



Several of these beautiful fishes were seen about the reefs near 

 Snipe Key. They like the protection of large rocks and are exceed- 

 ingly brilliant among their equally showy surroundings. 



MONAOANTHID^. 



70. Stephanolepis hispidus (Linnseus). File Fish. Leather Fish. 



Color in life green mottled with whitish and brown. Iris pale 

 yellowish. Some examples with fine dusky dots and others with 

 pubic flap edged with pale orange. Subject to great color variation, 

 especially with respect to pattern. 



Very abundant in the sea-wrack about the Marquesas. Also taken 

 about Hailer's Rock. 



