165G Bulletin /;, United States National Musenm. 



external border of tlie ventrals, whicli are long and pointed; forehead 

 with a fleshy hump in the adult. West Indies; probably not rare, reach- 

 ing a large size; recorded by Poey from Havana, and from St. Thomas by 

 Plee; known to us only from the examination of the original type, a dried 

 skin in the museum at Paris, icoclestinus, heavenly (blue).) 



Scarus coelestinvs* Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 180, 1839, St. Thomas ; 



JoEDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 543 (note on original type) ; Jordan, Eeview 



Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 

 Pseudoscarus coelestinus, Guichenot, Scaride.s, 22, 1865 (note on type) ; Poey, Synopsis, 



319, 1868; Poey, Enumeratio, 118, 1875. 



2072. PSKUDOSCARUS SIMPLEX, Poey. 



Snout pointed; jaws large, blue, with coarse crenulations ; tubes of 

 the lateral line without branches. Color entirely blu(\ Leugth 3 feet. 

 Cuba. (Poey); not seen by us; apparently differing from Fseudoscarus 

 calestinns only in the simple tubes of the lateral line, {simplej; simple.) 



Pseudoscarus simplex, Poey, Repertorio, i, 185, 1867, Havana; Poey, Synopsis, 349,1868; 



Poey, Enumeratio, 118, 1875. 

 Scarui simplex, Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 



2073. PSEUDOSCARUS PLEIANUS (Poey). 



Body oblong oval; jaws large, very convex, the crenulations large and 

 round; upper part of the jaws blue; upper ja^v with from 3 to 6 posterior 

 canines (3 on one side in type, 5 or 6 on the other); cheek with 2^ rows 

 of scales. Color red, shaded with blue and green ; green under pectoral, 

 and along the side and posterior part of the body; head, anterior and 

 upper part of the back, and belly grayish yellow; dorsal and anal brown, 

 spotted with green along their bases; pectorals and ventrals tinted with 

 green; caudal grayish yellow. Size large. St. Thomas. Only the type, 

 a very large dried skin, known ; not seen by us. It is evident that Scarus 

 guaoamaia Cuvier »fc Valenciennes, the "Grand Scare aux machiores bleus," 

 with 3 to 6 posterior canines, can not be the original Scarus guacamaia of 

 Cuvier, which has no canines at all. No writer has examined any other 

 specimens referable to the (fuacamaia of Valenciennes, but Poey has given 

 to these descriptions the name Scarus i^eianus, which the species must keep 

 if it be really valid. (Named for M. P16e, Avho collected for Cuvier in the 

 West Indies.) 

 Scarus guacamaia, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 178, 1839, St. Thomas. 



(Coll. Ploe.) 

 Pseudoscarus guacamaia, Guichenot, Scarides, 21, 1865 (note on type); not Scarus gua- 

 camaia, Cuvier. 

 Scarus pleianxis, Poey, Memorias, ii, 393, 1861, St. Thomas ; based on Scarus guacamaia, 

 CuviKR & Valenciennes; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 



*We have the following note on the type of Scarus codestinus: "A large stutied skin, 

 60 m. long, from St. Thomas. (Plee.) Color now plain dusky (perhaps blue in hie) ; 

 teeth apparent! V d.ark arecn; forehead fat; a single canine on right side of upper jaw, 

 none on left; il'ieek witli 2,V rows of scales; 7 scales before dorsal; caudal rounded, but 

 with the outer rays uiuch produced, about ^ their length bein"; exserted; next the last rays 

 of dorsal and aniil siiiiihirly prolonged into a point; ventrals long, pointed ; lorm rather 

 robust; head 3^; depth aj." 



