Jordan and Evcrmann. — Fishes of North Amoica. 1641 



Scarxit truncatus, Poey, Synopsis, 339, 1868, Havana; Toe y, Emimeratio, 114, 1875; Poey, 



Fauna, Puerto Riquena, 308, 1878. 

 Scarus circumnotatus* Poey, Memorias, 423, 1861, Havana ; Poey, Synopsis, 340, 1868. 

 .' Scarus emarginatum,\ Poey, Syuop.sis, 340, 1868, Havana. 



2054. SPABISOMA BRACHIALE (Poey). 



Head 3,i (4 with caudal); depth 2| (3f). D. IX, 10; A. II, 9; scales 

 2^—24-6. Body moderately deep; no canine teeth; lateral line ending 

 under last ray of soft dorsal and beginning again about 2 scales farther 

 forward, so that the two parts overlap; eye rather large, il in head; 

 snout rather acute, 3; cheek with a single row of about 4 scales; 4 .scales 

 before dorsal, 3 before veutrals; each pore of lateral line with 4 to 7 

 branches which cover most of the scale; 4 scales on median line before 

 dorsal. Pectorals reaching sliglitly past tips of veutrals ; caudal fin mod- 

 erately lunate, the middle part a little convex when the fin is spread open, 

 the outer rays moderately produced, the upper lobe 1? in head. Color in 

 spirits, dark olive green above, somewhat mottled; ^laler below; a faint 

 greenish streak running backward from angb'- of mouth; jaws pale; no 

 distinct spots or stripes on body; teeth pale; dorsal dusky gray ; caudal 

 mesially reddish, somewhat mottled, its posterior border bluish; veutrals 

 :ind pectorals pale, slightly gieenish ; a very distinct dark blotch at base 

 of upper rays of pectoral; the axil pale. Cuba. Hero described from a 

 single specimen 7A inches long. In spirits its colors are quite different 

 from those of S. flavescens, though in other respects the two bear much 

 resemblance. (Latin, hrachiitm; Greek, fipaxic^y, the arm, from the 

 axillary spot.) 

 Scarus brachialis, Poey, Memorias, n, 345, 1861, Cuba ; Poey, Synopsis, 337 (misprinted 



braquialis) ; Poey, Enumeratio, 113. 

 ? Scarws 7iMmecoJ(«, Poey, Memorias, u, 422,1861, Havana; based on old drawing; a black 



axillary spot, sown with white points. 

 Sparisoma frondomm, Jordan & Swaix, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 93 ; Jokdan, Proc. IT. S. 



Nat. Mus. 1886, 47 (not Scarus frondotnis, Cdvier). 

 S2>arisoma brachiale, Jobdan, Pieview Labroid Fislies, 073, 1890. 



2055. SPARISOMA MASOHALESPILOS (Bleel^or). 



Outer rays of caudal produced to about i the length of the head; 

 a dark spot at base of pectoral. General color dusky red; fins yellowish 

 red ; caudal violaceous ; scales of the back and sides with many red spots. 



* Scarus circumnotatus is thus described: 



' ' Head more than 4 in total ; depth 3i ; eye 5 in head, 2 in snout, more than 1 in distance 

 to angle of mouth; venules below and behind eye; profile regular, without depression or 

 prominence ; no pores above head ; no posterior canines ; scales of lateral line with 4 

 branches; caudal truncate or with slight points at the angle; pectoral short, 6 in length. 

 Greenish blue ; dorsal and anal green, with brown points on the soft rays and on the caudal 

 membranes; anal reddish -nith Iwown shades; pectorals and ventrals vermilion, the latter 

 with translucent points : iin l)l,i. k sjint in the axil ; some yellowish under the head." 



^ Sparisoma eniarginatii 1,1 i^ t]\n^ 'U-scTihed: , ^ ^, j, 



"Very close to .S'. eircuiini<,l,itni<. difieringin having the mouth lower and larther trorn 

 the eye tlie back higlier, thr bellv loss curved, the form therefore less elegant; preopercle 

 slightly emarginate behind ; venules less marked ; front of head with porous roughnesses ; 

 caudal truncate ; pectoral 5 J in length ; no posterior canines. Greenish, with some brown- 

 ish scales intermixed, the edge of each scale brownish; pectoral pale, with cross series 

 of white points. Length 185 mm." Cuba. (Poey). 

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