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streaks on each side of breast, there being one on each row of scales ; 

 teeth dark red ; a dusky blotch at base of pectoral ; caudal pale, orange- 

 red, with dusky on tip and sides, the outer rays being somewhat barred 

 with brown; anal light blnish-dusky, paler in front and on edge; 

 ventrals and pectorals i)ale ; dorsal orange, edged with bluish. 



Several young specimens of this species were taken at Key West. 

 In Havana it is rather common, and is known as Bullon. 



It seems never to reach a large size. Goode has suggested that it is 

 perhaps the young of Scarus vetula (= sitperbus Poey), but we are very 

 ])Ositive that this cannot be the case. The two are very unlike in 

 dentition as well as in color. 



There is no warrant for the change of the original name, croicensiSj 

 into sanctce-crucis, and we have, as a matter of course, restored the orig- 

 inal form of the word. 



The CaUiodon Imeatns seems to us, as suggested by Valenciennes, as 

 probably this species. 



Poey recognizes Psmidoscarus lineolatns with the three streaks along 

 the side of the breast, as shown hj our specimens, and P. sanetce-cnicis, 

 in which these markings are obsolete. 



In the absence of other characters, we cannot regard such a color- 

 mark as probably indicating specific distinction. 



4. Scarus virginalis, sp. uov. 



Scarus vetula Cuv. & Val., xiv., 193, 1839 (St. Thomas; not of Bloch & 



Schneider, based on a figure of Parra, representing Scarux superbus 



Poey). 

 Pseudoscarua paiitacua Giinther iv, 225, 1862 (Cuba; Jamaica; after Corrj- 



phaina jysitfdcuslj., which is a species oi Xyrichtliiis ; not Starua psittacus 



Forskill, an Asiatic species) ; Guichenot, Scarid6s Mus. Paris, 1865, 



25 (Martinique; St. Lucia); Poey, Synopsis, 347 (Cuba); Puey, Enu- 



meratio, 116. 

 Scania psittacua Coi>e, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871, 461 (St. Martins; St. 



Croix). 



Head, 3 (3|) ; depth, 2f (3^) ; length of the tyincal example (Havana), 

 0^ inches. 



Body oblong-elliptical. 



Jaws pale; a canine directed backward and outward above the 

 angle of the mouth ; upper lip covering more than half of surface of 

 upper jaw. 



Eye small, 6 in head ; snout rather acute, 2f in head ; (iheek with 

 two nearly equal rows of about six scales each ; one or two large scales 

 below the lower series; eight scales on median line of back before 

 dorsal. 



Caudal fin when spread open very slightly rounded ; the outer rays 

 very slightly produced, If in head, in specimens of 9 inches. 



Color in life dark orange-brown above; the centers of each scale 

 greenish-blue ; rather abruptly iialer below, where the blue predomi- 

 nates as it does also on caudal peduncle; sides of head with ^wo hori- 



