1598 Bulletin //, United States National Miisenm. 



short, not filamentous ; scales before dorsal in about 6 rows, not covering 

 middle line. Color in life, olive green ; a bright-blue streak, narrow and 

 somewhat interrupted, from ej'e to base of caudal; a broader dark-bronze 

 streak just below it, containing a series of small dark spots, mostly 

 arranged in threes, the last one darkest, at base of caudal, just above 

 middle line, these all obsolete in adult; below the bronze band, a faint 

 blue streak, then a broad brown one, then a short one; bright sky blue 

 bounding the belly, ending over middle of anal; belly and throat jiearly 

 white; head clierry red and bronze anteriorly, becoming olive behind, 

 mottled with blue; a ilark blue-edged spot behind eye; a large black spot 

 smaller than eye below fifth dorsal spine, this spot crescent-shaped, bor- 

 dered with yellow behind, mostly on 1 scale; a golden crescent at base 

 of pectoral; dorsal bright orange, bluish below; caudal cherry red; anal 

 bright orange ; no spots on fins; iris red. Larger individuals deeper in 

 color, the head cherry red, a dark spot bordered with blue behind eye; 

 pectoral not black. In alcoholic specimens pearly streaks appear on sides 

 of head and behind pectoral. (5^?, two; 6TtlXo%, spot.) 



Platyylossus dispilus, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, 25, Panama ; Gunthee, Fish. 

 Cent. Am., 447, 1869; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Coium. 1882, 108; Jordan, 

 Cat. Fish. N. Am., 99, 1885 ; Jordan & Hughes, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 64. 



Halichoeres dispilus, Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 646, 1890; Jordan, Fishes of 

 Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 481, pi. 45. 



2004. IRIDIO KIRSCHII, Jordan & Evermann, new speciM. 



Heads?-; depth 3J to 4. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 2-28-10; snout 

 2* in head measured along the axis; eye If in snout; pectoral shortish^ 

 1| in head. Body rather elongate, but deeper than in /. caiidaHs, the 

 snout less acute; Aentrals with the outer rays scarcely filamentous, about 

 reaching tips of pectorals. Tubes of pores of lateral line distinctly 

 branched, the branches usually 3 in number ; body moderately slender, the 

 depth a little less than length of head, snout not very sharp, the anterior 

 profile of head steep and slightly convex. Color in spirits, olivaceous, 

 with traces of 3 darker cross bands with pale interspaces and some traces 

 of blue spots on scales; dark-blue spot behind' eye large, with a distinct 

 golden spot above it, very distinct in 2 specimens, obsolete in a larger 

 one; a blue streak before eye; a round black inky spot at base of last ray 

 of dorsal; fins all pale in spirits, the anal edged with bluish; a bluish 

 cross bar on base of pectoral. Length about a foot. West Indies, south 

 toBahia; recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, Bahia, and St. Croix. Of this 

 species we have examined the specimens called Jnlis croiaplius by Valen- 

 ciennes, and 3 specimens taken by the Albatross at Bahia, the latter 8i»eci- 

 mens (No. 43303, U. S. N. M.) being types of the present description. 

 (Named for Dr. Philip H. Kirsch, fish commissioner of Indiana, in recog- 

 nition of his work on American fishes.) 



Jtdis crotaphus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiii, 395, tab. 395, 1839, Bahia 

 not of CuviER, who based the species wholly on Parra's Doncella, Iridio radiahis. 



Platyglossiis crotaphus, GCnther, Cat., iv, 163, 1862, Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 

 463. 



Ghoerojulis crotaphus, PoEY, Enumeratio, 109, 1875. 



Haliehmres poeyi, Jordan, Keview Labroid Fishes, 646, 1890; not of Steindachner. 



Iridio Hrsehii, Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 413, 1896, Bahia; name only. 



