606 CONTEIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
322.— CALLIODOW Gronow, 
(Grouow; Blocli & Sclmeider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 312: type Calliodon lineatus Bloch & 
Schneider. ) 
Body moderately elongate, compressed, covered with large scales. 
Lateral line complete, its branching tubes covering the surface of its 
scales. Teeth at base coalescent with the bony jaw, the tips free; no 
median division in either jaw; upi>er jaw with canine-like teeth in front; 
posterior canines present; loAver pharyngeal bone large, broader than 
long; the teeth coalescing, forming a pavement. One row of large 
scales on the cheek. Dorsal spines flexible. D. IX, 9 or 10; A. 11,8; 
scales about 2-2 1-G. Tropical seas, (zald?, beautiful; doojvj tooth.) 
953. C. iistiis Cuv. & Val. 
Iteddish in spirits, nearly plain, a black spot behind the first dorsal 
spine. Body moderately elongated, compressed. Head rather irointed. 
Upper jaw with G canines in front, free at their tips, coalescent below; 
no smaller teeth behind these; posterior canine well developed, directed 
outward and partly backward ; between the anterior and posterior 
canines a series of small teeth behind the sharp edge of the bone. 
Lower jaw with a series of close-set, even, bluntish teeth, coalescing 
below; upper lip double for its whole length, covering all of the upper 
jaw except the tips of the teeth. Opercles with two rows of scales, 
larger than those on the cheeks. Dorsal spines moderately high, very 
slender; pectoral short, rounded; caudal truncate. D. IX, 9; A. II, 8; 
scales li-2I-G. West Indies, occasional northward. This description 
taken from a specimen obtained at Charleston hy Mr. R. E. Earll. 
(Cuv. & Val. xiv, 283, 1839; Giiuther, iv, 214.) 
323.— IIEMUSTOITIA Swaiuson. 
Parrot-fishes. 
Pseudoscarus Bleeker. 
(Swaiuson, Ciass’u. Aiiini. ii, 18.39, 22G: type Scarus pepo Beuuett.) 
Body oblong, more or less compressed, covered with A^ery large scales. 
Lateral line continuous. Lower jaw included; teeth in each jaw sol- 
dered together, forming a continuous iflate, divided bj" a median suture 
as in Tetrodon ; the separate teeth traceable by serrations on the edge 
and by reticulated markings on the anterior surface; none of them 
exserted ; posterior canines small or wanting ; lower jiharyngeal very 
large, longer than broad, the teeth paA^ed. Scales on the cheek in 
more than one series. Dorsal spines flexible; dorsal IX, 10, or X, 9; 
