each side ; a second small canine present on one side in the specimen 

 described; upper lip covering about half of surface of upper jaw. 



Eye small, o| in head ; snout rather acute, 2§ in head ; cheek with 

 two rows of scales, those of the upper row being about one-third larger 

 than those of the second row ; two scales below the lower series ; seven 

 scales before dorsal. 



Caudal fin truncate or slightly rounded when spread oj)en, the angles 

 not produced f (in specimen of G inches) the outer rays If in head. 



In life orange-brown; the centers of most of the scales bright bluish- 

 green, these blotches large, so that the green predominates over the 

 orange on most of the body. On the anterior part of the back and on 

 top of head there is little green, this region being more brown. 



A light-yellow longitudinal band, higher up than the similar band in 

 8. vetula, and above the level of the green strii^es on head, running 

 backward from upper i^art of gill-opening nearly to end of pectoral ; 

 below this is a dark, grayish band about as broad as eye, extending 

 about to end of pectorals ; this is bordered above and below by bright 

 green. These green strii)es become very distinct on the head, where 

 they extend forward on snout, one above and one below the e3-e, the 

 lower meeting its fellow on tbe upper lip, the upper on the forehead; 

 interspace between these bands dark gray ; a grass-green band around 

 lower jaw; lower half of head light yellowish-green; belly xmlegreen- 

 ish ; dorsal and anal bright green at base and tip, mesially orange, the 

 orange with a, median more or less interrupted band of blue, the corre- 

 sponding band on anal forming a row of spots ; caudal bright greenish- 

 blue, the outer rays entirely blue, the inner with their membranes 

 orange ; pectoral pale yellow ; the axil not dusky. 



This species is very close to the preceding, differing so ftir as we 

 can see only in the arrangement of the colors. 



But a single specimen was obtained. This answers almost exactly to 

 Ouichenot's description of the ty])e of Scar us 2yunctulatus and to Gunther's 

 Pseuodoscarus tceniopterus. 



Scants (liadema C. & V. api)ears to be somewhat different, as also 

 Scarus Ueniopterus Desmarest. It is possible, however, that the type of 

 the latter is faded and has lost the markings of the head. In that case 

 the appropriate name of tceniopterus should supersede^?i»cfiJ«i?^9. At 

 present this identification is too doubtful to justify this change of name. 



B. Geuus SPARISOMA. 

 Scarus, sp. Auct. 



Sparisoma Swainsou, Nat. Hist. Class'n, Fishes, &c., 1839, ii, 227 (abUdgaardi). 



Scarus Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, xii, 1861, Scaroid, 3 (crefensis). 



Scarus Giinther, Poey, Guichenot, et auct. (cretensis). 



Sparisoma Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 938 {aUldgaardi). 



We have elsewhere given the reasons which have led us to retain the 

 name Scarus for the group {Pseiidoscarus) to which the species origin- 

 ally described by Forskal belong. 



