Jordan and Ever manri, — Fishes of North America. 1645 



a. Caudal truncate, its points slightly salient ; sides with a broad whitish 



baud. ACUTUS, 2068. 



lih. Third (partial) row of scales on the cheek of 1 or 2 scales only; scales of the 



npi)ei' row much larger than those of the second row ; caudal suhtruncate, 



its outer rays more or less produced, becoming much elongate with age; 



adult with a fleshy hump above the snout. 



I. Color bright blue, the J'oung more or less shaded with reddish brown ; 



fins mostly blue. Size large. c^ruleus, 2069. 



II. Color dusky olive; a pale-yellowish streak from upper part of eye to 



upper base of caudal. emblematicus, 2070. 



Subgenus SCARUS. 



2057. SCARUS PUXCTULATIIS (Cuvier .t Valenciennes). 



Head 3| (3| with caudal); depth 31 (31); eye small, 5i in head; snout 

 ratheracute, 2f inhead. D.IX, 10; A. II, 9; scales 2i-24-6. Body oblong- 

 elliptical; a canine directed outward above angle of mouth on each .side; 

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

 upper lip covering about A of the surface of the upper jaw; cheek with 

 2 rows of scales, those of the upper row being about \ larger than those 

 of the second row, 2 scales below the lower series ; 7 scales before dor- 

 sal; origin of ventral iins directly under pectoral, tips of fins not reach- 

 ing quite halfway from their base to front of anal; pectoral reaching 

 about midway between tips of ventrals and front of anal; caudal fin 

 truncate or slightly rounded when spread open, the angles not produced; 

 the outer rays IJ in head (in specimen of 6 inches). 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 the top of head there is 

 little green, this region being more brown; a light-yellow longitudinal 

 band, higher up than the similar band in »S. tamiopterus, and above the 

 level of the green stripes on head, running backward from upper part of 

 gill opening nearly to the end of pectoral; below this is a dark-grayish 

 band, about as broad as eye, extending about to end of jiectorals; this is 

 bordered above and below by bright green; these green stripes become 

 very distinct on the head, where they extend forward on snout, 1 above 

 and 1 below the eye, the lower meeting its fellow on the upper lip, the 

 upper on the forehead; interspace between these bauds dark gray; jaws 

 whitish; a grass-green band around lower jaw; lower half of head light 

 yellowish green ; belly pale greenish ; dorsal and anal bright green at base 

 and tij), mesially orange, the orange with a median more or less interrupted 

 band of blue, the corresponding band on anal forming a row of spots; caudal 

 bright greenish l)lue, the outer rays entirely blue, the inner with their 

 membranes orange; pectoral pale yellow, the axil not dusky. West 

 Indies; rather common ; one of the most brilliant of the group. It may be 

 known by the coloration of the anal fin, which has suggested the name 

 puncitdatvs. Here described from a specimen 6 inches in length, from 

 Havana. Another from Porto Rico is in the museum at Cambridge. 

 {punctiilatus, dotted.) 



