PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 Measurements of species of Caalolatilus. 



45 



* This means the upper jaw ; the maxilla alone is 9. 6. 



4. Xyrichthys psittacus (L.) Goode & Bean. 



Coryphmia psittacus LiNNfi, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 1760, p. 448. 

 Coryphwna lineafa Gmelix, Syst. Nat. 



The type of Goryph(ena imttacus, labeled by Liun6, and marked No. 

 20 (evidently the No. 20 referred to on page 313, Correspondence with 

 Linne by Garden,' as a fish of surpassing beauty), is the species which 

 we have for some time known as Xyrichthys lineatus. Linn6's descrip- 



