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There seeuis to be no iniportiiiit reason for regarding the Cuban in- 

 ter xasa I is as <lifferent from the Brazilian dimidiatus, the alleged differ- 

 ences in color being doubtless due to omissions in the original descrip- 

 tiou. The colors in all these fishes rapidly fade in dried or preserved 

 specimens* and descriptions or figures drawn from such cannot be 

 closely compared with fresh examples. 



Two male specimens of P. (limidiatus from Havana are each about 

 15 inches in length. In life they showed the following coloration : 



Deep light olive-green on head and back, the head bluer, then a 

 broad lateral baiul of deej) indigo, below this light clear green, then 

 darker bluish-green ; clear blue on lower jaw below, and clear greenish- 

 blue on lower part of cheek; lateral band becoming faiut on head; a 

 dark streak along profile from snout to nape; a dark bluish band up- 

 ward and backward from eye to nape, rather conspicuous, narrowed 

 posteriorly; dorsal indigo, edged with sky-blue; caudal green, indigo 

 in center, yellowish at tip ; anal indigo, then dull orange, then sky-blue ; 

 ventrals green ; pectorals plain greenish, indigo above ; axil dark. 



6. Platyglossus maculipinna. 



Julis maciilij^'nuKi Miiller & TroHclicl in Scbomburgh, Hist. B>irbacloes, 674, 



1848 (Barbadoes). 

 riatiigJossus macuUpivna Giiutber, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., IV, 1862, 165 (Triui- 



(lad) ; Jordan, Cat. Fisb. N. Am., 1885, 99 (Beaufort, N. C.) ; Jordan, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 1685 (Beaufort). 

 Charojulis maculipinna Poey, Synopsis, Pise. Cub., 1868, 336; Poey, Euu- 



meratio, 109, 1875 (Havana). 

 Piisa* radiata Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 374 (Beaufort). 



Hahitat. — West Indian fauna ; north to Beaufort. 



This species is known to us chiefly from descriptions. A small ex- 

 ample taken by Professors Jordan «& Gilbert at Beaufort in 1877t 

 is regarded as belonging to it, but this individual is now destroyed, 

 and we are unable to verify this identification. !N"o other known spe- 

 cies has, however, the black dorsal spot. 



The character of the predorsal scales and of the ventrals should be 

 known before the place of this species in our analytical key can be 

 given. 



* The rather curious blunder involved in the use of thenatoe "P«srt" for this genus 

 came about in this way: Professor Gill once informed the -writer that the name Pufia 

 of Scopoli must probably supersede HaUvhccrus, the latter being a genus of seals. 

 The Avriter adopted the statement as referring to Halichocres, the genus of fishes. 



t The life colors of this specimen were thus described : " Bright green ; a dark brown 

 lateral band covering two rows of scales; above this three bronze bands, with green 

 interspaces, below if a band of crimson ; these bands running forward and meeting 

 on the snout ; dorsrl fin bright vermilion, with a large blue spot, ocellated with yel- 

 low near its middle ; a smaller dark blue spot at base of last dorsal ray and another 

 at base of caudal: anal red, with a yellowish streak; caudal nearly plain ; iris red- 

 Length, 1,J inches,'" 



