1619 



Jordan and Evermann. -Fishes of North America. 1619 



haps not distinct fron. the razor-fish ^XyricM^nj.^ ^wmo.U Linn«.us) of the 

 Mediterranean. (^/rraKos, parrot.) 



Cory,K<.nap.^tacu.^ L™us, Syst. Kat., Ed. xn, 448, 1766, Charleston. (Coll. Dr. 

 X.,SS;i^«ac«. aoon.^BK.^^Proc.TT^S^Kat.Mus.l884 4^ 1885,1^ o. type 



JsrovacuUlineata, Guntheb, Cat. iv, 1.1, 1862 (Coll. Poey) ; Jordan & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 605, 1883 ; Bean. Bull. Fish Comm. 1888, .0.. 



2030. XYRICHTHYS MODESTDS, Poey. 



Head Bf in total with caudal; depth 44. D. IX, 12; A. Ill, 11; scales 



28 30- Body and head very much compressed; eye high, contained 6 



11 in distance .om the "-th to the point of the ^-c^ 3 in snont. 



om tue luoutu tu uuo ^.^^^^ — — x - 



No scales on head. First ray of dorsal stronger than the others ; caudal 

 truncal- Color carmine lake; brown posteriorly; opercle greenish 

 X;-adwith5hl.k.e.icalha.ds;ad.p.redW 



i:^r:f ;X:i fin; Z^carcely^treaked; irisred. Dijl^rs^om 



:;.!./«.. in truncate caudal, longer P-f-^'f --■;^^;^^d^n:ttd ol 

 absence of streaks on trunk; the space behind ^^^'^fj^^^f^^^^ 

 brown. Cuba. (Poey) ; not seen by ns ; evidently very close to X v^Macm, 

 of which it is probably a color variation, {mode^im, modest.) 



Y,Wc../.,.s. .noaestu., Poet, Eepertorio, n, 238, 1867. Havana (Coll. Poey) ; PoE., Synopsis, 

 336, 1868; .TOBDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 661, 1890. 



645. INIISTIUS, Gill. 



I^^B, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862 143 (^avo) 

 Xyrichthys, Bleeker, Atlas Icbth., 149, 1862 (pavo) ; not of Ccmer 



* We Lave compared numerous specimens f-m PensacoU =ml^^^^^^^^^ 

 descriptions available of the Mediterranean spec es and can h^ ^^.^^^^^^ 



We are, however, unwilling 10 PlaS,^,'}; J7,Y,irlMtou s, enmens seem to represent the psit- 

 actual comparison ot specimens Ihese ^^arlestou spec ™»^n^ Poey seems to be the 



tacus of Linnaeus and the hneata ot ^'"fl^^;. JJ'.^f,' "-^^^^^ The wbite 



same, as is also, in our opinion,_his venustus ('^««f ^Z' V" _ ".cimens and not on others. If 

 peritoneal blotch of venmtus is evident «j^ ««^e °f oui sp .imen^^^^ ^.^^^ ^.^^ ^ 



the synonymy be correct this ^^azor-hsh wmild have a^^^^ a.s species dis- 



Labroid. Dr. Bean admits, P™^i«J0°^"-^'A^?f!5:'*^" retains the name X. venustus. As, 



' Martigues, Montpelier, I^ica, Seide. 

 Kovacula cuUrata, Gunthek, Cat., iv, 169, 18b^. 



