378 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



LEPTOSCAKUS VIRroESCENS (RuppeU) 



Scarus {Calliodon) viridescens Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 23, 



pi. 7, fig. 2. Djedda, Red Sea. 

 Callyodon viridescens Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 214 



(Red Sea); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 103 (Zanzibar). — Klunzinger, 



Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 558 (Red Sea).— Day, Fishes 



of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 410, pi. 90, fig. 2 (Andamans); Fauna Brit. India, 



vol. 2, 1889, p. 422, fig. 148 (copied). 

 Leptoscarus viridescens Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1925, p. 261 



(Delagoa Bay). 

 Callyodon sandwicensis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, 



p. 295. Hawaiian Islands. — Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 



1865, p. 62 (type). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, 



p. 301, pi. 151 (Hawaiian Islands). 

 Calotomus sandwicensis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, p. 512 



(Hawaiian Islands). 

 Calotomus sandvicensis Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



vol. 23 (1), 1903 (1905), p. 341 (Honolulu, Kailua). 

 Leptoscarus sanduiicensis Jordan and Jordan, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, 



No. 1, December, 1922, p. 75 (Honolulu). 

 Calotomus cyclurus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), 



p. 465, fig. 24. Honolulu. 

 Calotomus moluccensis (not Bleeker) Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 789 (Negros). 

 Scarichthys rarotongae Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4 (1), 1906, 



p. 59, fig. 8. Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 

 Scarichthys coeruleopunctatiis (part) Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, 1911, p. 304 (Vavau, Tonga Islands). 



Depth 2}i to 2>; head 2 to 3H, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2% to 

 3M; eye 4 to 7, 1% to 2% in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital; mouth 

 cleft 33^ to 4 in head; hps cover teeth; outer upper teeth 13 to 20, 

 irregularly biserial; below median symphyseal tooth with 3 or 4 

 superimposed rows each side, and 2 to 6 teeth in each row; inter- 

 orbital 4 to 5 in head, convex. Gill rakers 5 + 7, short, rather flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 19 or 20, 5+2; 2 scales above lateral line, 6 

 below, 4 predorsal; cheek scales in single row of 3 or 4, variable even 

 in same individual. Scales with 30 to 33 basal radiating striae, 

 36 to 61 feeble and imperfect apically; circuh very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2% to 3 in head, first ray 2% to 2^; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 3^ to 4i/g, first ray 23>g to 334; caudal IJ/^ 

 to 1%, emargmate, points but slightly exserted, hind edge little 

 convex as expanded; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^ to 3; 

 pectoral 1% to 1^; ventral 1^^ to IJ^. 



Brown generally, each scale finely mottled with darker and with 

 many dark obscure waved lines. At bases of many scales on trunk 

 and tail pale or whitish spot of varying intensity. First membrane 

 of spinous dorsal dusky, rest of fin brown with paler variable mar- 

 blings and blotches. Anal brown, with dark blotches, some large 

 and conspicuous basally. Caudal brown, with transverse waved 



