ADDENDA 94. LABRID^ PLATYGLOSSUS. 
937 
dark-bionze stripe from pectoral backward; each scale of sides with a 
greenish-blue crescent; sides of head orange; a blue wavy stripe below 
eye, turning downward on subopercle; opercle with an indigo spot, 
bordered by bluish and yellow; tip of opercle yellow, the color bounded 
by a blue <-shaped line; lower jaw with bands of orange and whitish; 
a small inky spot at base of last ray of soft dorsal; dorsal cherry-red, 
with translucent bands; caudal reddish; anal banded with red and 
pale; pectorals yellowish; ventrals white. Body slender; snout not 
very sharp; posterior canine small. Dorsal spines low, stiff and i)uu- 
gent; caudal short, obliquely truncate. Head 3J; depth 4 (4f in total). 
D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales l^-2G-8. L. 3| inches. Pensacola Bay. 
Old specimens, (Charleston, S. C.) are deeper-bodied and have the 
posterior part of the caudal, especially the angles, black or dark-blue, 
the basal part of the fin with concentric, convex, broad streaks of or- 
ange, with narrower bluish interspaces; the dorsal is largely orange, 
with a median blackish or brown band, which is otten obsolete, its base 
with crimson spots; anal with a crimson band and some bluish streaks. 
Black s])ot at base of last dorsal ray disappearing with age. Females 
with the dark lateral band less distinct, the colors duller, the dark 
dorsal band more distinct than in the males. Head 3|; depth 3, in 
adult. Xorth Carolina to Surinam. 
To the synonymy add: 
{Lfihrus birittatiis Bloch, Ichthyol. taf. 284, f. 1; Julis psitiaculus C. & V. xiii, 387; 
Gimther, iv, 164; Steiiidachuer, Ichthyol. Notiz. vi, 49, 1867 : Platyglossus Jiorealis Joi. 
& Gilb. Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 287: Plahjglossus grandisquamis and humeraUs, 
this work, p. 603.) 
948 (/q. P. eaasdalis (Poey) Gthr. 
Olivaceous; a row of sky-blue spots on each side of back; a broad 
area of orange, intermingled with violet spots, extending along sides, 
most cons[)icuous anteriorly; below this a band of pale violet, becoming 
posteriorly spots of deei) violet; still lower a deep yellow band bound- 
ing the white of the belly; preorbital and suborbital scarlet, with 3 
blue stripes, marked with cherry-red; cheeks below yellowish; oper- 
cles bright red, with 3 oblique violet stripes, the upper forming behind 
eye an oblique blotch, in the middle of which is a round ink-like S])ot; 
no ojiercular spot; dorsal orange, the soft part with 3 rows of violet 
spots; caudal orange and blue, the former color arranged in 1 longi- 
tudinal, 2 marginal, and 2 converging bands, which are joined by re- 
ticulations around bluish spots; anal with a basal row of orange spots, 
then blue spots, then a yellow baud, then blue, then finally edged with 
