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946. P. radintns (L.) J. & G. — Blm-fish; DonceUa. 
Adult brilliaut azure-blue, each scale edged with bright pearly green; 
a lougitudiual blue baud ou anal; margin of dorsal light blue; young 
{^^cyanostigma’^) brownish, a light-blue spot on the base of each scale; 
head with spots and stripes of bright blue; dorsal with 4 lines of stri])es 
and blotches and a broad edge of blue ; caudal with a broad white mar- 
gin, the outer rays blue, the base of the fin spotted with blue; anal with 
border and two longitudinal stripes of blue, besides a blue spot at the 
base of each ray; pectoral with first 5 rays and a transverse line blue. 
Head 4; depth 3. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 2-28-10. L. IG inches. 
West Indies, north to Key West. 
{Spams radiat as Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii, 472, 1766: Jalis cyanostirjma, principis, and 
patatus Ciiv. & Val. xiii, 391-398: Flctjpjlossus cijanosiigma Giintlier, iv, 161: Platy- 
(jJossus principis GxmtliGV, iv, 164: ChccrojuUs radiatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas. v, 
35.) 
94'y. P. g^randisquaniis (Gill) J. & G. 
Color, in spirits, dark chestnut or brownish red ; a very dark vertical 
spot bordered by steel-blue, behind the opercle; anal fin faintly barred; 
caudal marbled, and with a marginal dark baud. Body rather short 
and stout. Profile slightly convex. Maxillary nearly reaching front of 
orbit. Dorsal spines short, rather stiff. Caudal fin subtruncated. Head 
3i; depth 3J, D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; Lat. 1. 27. Beaufort, X. C. 
(Chocrojalis grandisquamis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 206.) 
948. P. Iitimeralis (Poey) Gthr 
A black spot, edged with pearl color posteriorly, on the extremity of 
the operculum; a brown baud from the snout through the eye and the 
opercular spot across the bend of the lateral line to the base of the 
caudal; a second from below the axil along the side of the belly; a 
bluish streak, edged with darker, from the eye obliquely upward and 
backward, meeting its fellow ou the nape; base of pectoral whitish, 
without black spot ; caudal truncate, with blue angles. A black baud 
along the middle of the dorsal fin is described by Dr. Giinther, but is 
wanting in the specimens seen by us. Head 3f ; depth 3f. D. IX, 11; 
A. Ill, 11 ; scales 2-29-10. Coast of Cuba, north to Florida. 
{JuUs humeralis Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 212, 1858; Giiuther, iv*, 165: Choerojalis humeraUs 
Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 338.) 
949. P. seniicinctiis (Ayres) Giintber. — Kelp-fish. 
Dark greenish brown, with bright reflections; head bronze-green 
above; three or four narrow, horizontal, wavy blue bauds below the 
