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four to seven biaiiches, wLicli cover most of the scale. Four scales on 

 median line before dorsal. 



Caudal fin moderately lunate, the middle part a little convex when 

 the fin is spread open; the outer rays moderately produced; the upper 

 lobe If in head. 



Color in spirits dark olive green above, somewhat mottled; paler 

 below. A faint greenish streak running backward from angle of mouth. 

 No distinct spots or stripes on body. Teeth pale. Dorsal dusky gray. 

 Caudal pale, immaculate, the outer rays above and below green. Anal 

 dusky gray, somewhat mottled. Ventrals and pectorals pale, slightly 

 greenish ; a distinct dark blotch at base of upper rays of pectoral ; the 

 axil pale. 



A single specimen of this species was obtained at Havana. Its life 

 colors were not noticed. In spirits its colors are quite different from 

 those of 8. Jlaveseens, though in other respects the two bear much re- 

 semblance. 



Our specimen agrees equally well with the descrijitions of frondosus 

 and hracMaUs. We conclude, therefore, that the two are identical. 

 The frondosus of Giinther is evidently not the same, and Poey is prob- 

 ably right in identifying it with his Scarus distinctus. 



8. Sparisoma chrysopterum. 



Vieja Parra, Descr., Dif., Piezas Hist. Nat. 1787, 58, pi. 28, f.4. (Cuba.) 



Scarus clirysopterua Bloch & Sclineider. Syst. Ichth., 1801, 286, pi. 57 

 (American seas); Cuv. «&■ Val., xiv, 185, 1839 (St. Thomas) ; Giinther, 

 1862, 12, (Martinique; Jamaica), Guichenot, Scaridds Mus. Paris, 12, 

 1865 (San Domingo ; Guadeloupe) ; Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871, 

 462 (St. Croix; St. Kitts). 



Scarus chlorisBlocli & Schneider. Syst. Ichth., 1801, 289 (after Parra) ; Goode, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1876, 34, (synonymy). 



Scarus lateralis Foey, Memoriae II, 219, 1860 (Cuba) ; Poey, Eepertorio, I, 

 373, 375 ; II, 162 ; Poey, synopsis, 337 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 112. 



Head, 3^ (4|) ; depth, 2§ (3|^) ; length of the example described (Ha- 

 vana), 13 inches. 



Body oblong. 



Jaws pale. A strong canine directed outward and backward toward 

 angle of mouth in upper jaw ; besides this about three smaller canines 

 toward the front of the jaw ; most of these turned forward. Upper lip 

 covering about half of ujjper jaw. 



Eye of in head ; snout not obtuse, 2f ; cheek with a single row of 

 three or four large scales. Each pore of lateral line ramose, many times 

 forked and covering most of the scale ; the pores more branched than in 

 any other of our species. Four scales on median line before dorsal. 



Caudal deeply lunate. The outer rays much produced. The upper 

 lobe longest, twice as long as inner rays, as long as head. 



Color in life bright blue, almost everywhere tinged with green. 

 Dorsal and anal and middle of caudal brick red ; edge of caudal blue. 



