1642 Dulldin //, United States National Museum. 



Surinam. (Bleeker.) Not seen by us. It is perhaps distinct from S. bra- 

 chiale, though evidently closely allied. {Madxd^.^f, armpit; d7tiA.o<;, spot.) 



Scarus maschaUspilos, Bleekbe, Notices Ichthyologiques, l-x, 5, 1862, Surinam. 

 Sparisoina maschalesvilos, Jordan, Review Labioid Fishes, 673, 1890. 



206fi. SPARISOMA FROjVDOSUM (Ciivier). 



Three large, scales on cheek; dorsal spines rather slender but pungent; 

 caudal emarginate ; tubes of each scale of lateral line much ramified and 

 extending over the whole scale; teeth of moderate size, very distinct on 

 the edges of the javsrs; no posterior canines.* Coloration uniform dark 

 purplish violet. (Giiuther.) Jamaica to Brazil; evidently closely related 

 to Sparisoma riibrijnnne, but distinguished by the branched pores, (fron- 

 dosus, branched.) 

 Scams frondoius (Cuviek MS.) Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 98, 1829, Bahia (Coll. Spix) : 



CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. IS^at. Tois-s., xiv, 204, 1839; Guichenot, Scarides, 1865, 



15 ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 542 (note on type). 

 Scarus aracanga, Gunther, Cat., iv, 209, 1862, Jamaica. 

 Sparisoma aracanga, Jordan, Review Labroid Pisho.s, 074, 1890. 



649. SCARUS, Forskiil. 

 (LoROs: Pakkot-fishes.) 



Callyodon, Gronow, Museum Iclithyol., n, 8, 1764 (croiee7isis) ; ndubiuomial. 



Scan/.?, FORSKAL, Descr. Animal, .tc, in Orient. Observ., 25. 1775 (2>siftacus, etc.); not of 

 Gronow, 1764, which (ndnliincimial) = Labrus L. 



Galliodon, Block & Schneidf.r, S\ st. Ichthyol., 312, 1801 (Uneatus^croicensis). 



Hemistoma, Swainson, Clasa'n Fishes, etc., 11, 226, 1839 (reticiilatus Swain8on=i><?j:/o Ben- 

 nett) {=zScarm). 



Petronason, Swainson, Claas'n Fiahes, etc., 11, 226, 1839 (psiUacus, etc.) (—Scarus). 



Erychlhys, Swainson, Claas'n Fishes, etc., 11, 226, 1839 (croicensis, etc.). 



Chlorurus, Swainson, Class'n Fishes, etc., 11, 227, 1839 (gibbus) {= Scarus). 



Callyodon, Gronow, Systenia, Ed. Gray, 83, 1854 (lineatus, etc.). 



Scarus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 938, 1883 (2>sittac.us) . 



Calliodon, Jordan, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 591 {croicensis) . 



Lower pharyngeals spoon-shaped, ovate-oblong, transversely concave; 

 teeth in each jaw fully coalescent, appearing as tessellations on the sur- 

 face; iaws with distinct median suture; the edges of jaw even, the teeth 

 whitish or rosy in color, never green. Upper pliaryngeals each with 2 

 rows of teeth; gill membranes scarcely united to the narrow isthmus, 

 across which they form a broad fold; dorsal spines flexible, scarcely dif- 

 ferent from the soft rays; upper lip laterally double, the interior fold 

 becoming very narrow or obsolete mesially; lower jaw included in the 

 clo.sed mouth ; lateral line interrupted posteriorly, commencing again on 

 the next series of scales below; tubes of lateral line scarcely branched; 

 scales on cheek in 2 to 4 rows; scales in front of dorsal on median line 

 6 to 8. Dorsal rays IX, 10 ; anal II, 9 in all species ; scales 2^-24-6. Body 



* "We are indebt(^d to Br. G. A. Boulenger for the information that in the types of Spa- 

 risoma strigatuia and S. aracanga there are no iio.sterior canines. 



