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fir*. General body color reddish or brown, not dark leaden gray 

 nor violet, 

 i*. Caudal fin deeply emarginate ; posterior canine usually 



wanting, occasionally present bninneus. 



^^ Caudal fin truncate paluca. 



o". General color in life largely brilliant blue or green. 



f Head with a broad greenish or purplish saddle before 

 eye, this area continuous from side to side and bor- 

 dered by bright greenish blue ; posterior canine 

 wanting or small ; head and fins with elaborate 

 markings of blue and green; caudal subtruncate. 



perspicillatus. 

 f Head without peculiar markings as above ; caudal fin 

 lunate, with produced angles. 

 fc\ Body relatively slender, the depth 2% to 3 in length ; 

 dorsal fin largely red or orange, banded with blue 

 or green. 

 i\ Dorsal fin orange, with a broad undulating blue 

 band above, edged above and below with darker 

 blue ; blue spots on base of each membrane ; anal 

 similar; caudal edged all around with blue. 



formosus. 



f. Dorsal fin red, with a green median streak and 



a blue margin ; anal similar ; caudal with four 



curved blue cross bands bataviensis. 



fc^ Body relatively deep, the depth 2^2 in length ; dor- 

 sal fin not largely red or orange. 

 m\ Dorsal fin green at base and along edge, the 

 middle portion paler ; caudal with green spots. 



jenkinsi. 



»^^ Dorsal fin narrowly blue on base and border, 



the two areas separated by a broad, dusky 



whitish band ; caudal crossed by a subter- 



terminal blackish line gilberti. 



SCARUS KRAUSSI E. K. Jordan, new species. 



Plate 2, fig. 1 



Head 3 in length ; depth 2.7 ; eye 6 in head, snout 2.6 ; interorbital 

 2.7; D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 9; P. 14; scales 2—24—6. 



Body moderately deep, stout, not closely compressed; profile of 

 top of head straight, running into a dorsal profile that is evenl}' 

 convex from beginning of dorsal fin to caudal peduncle; snout very 

 blunt, as if chopped off, its tip slightly in advance of mouth ; mouth 

 on axis of body; jaws unequal, the lower included; teeth pinkish 

 dusky, white at tip ; no posterior canine ; upper lip double only close 

 to corner of mouth, only covering about half the dental plate ; lower 

 lip very narrow, covering less than half the dental plate ; cheek with 

 but one complete row of scales ; a second low er row is represented by 

 3 small scattered scales; lower limb of preopercle naked; opercle 

 scaled, scales on lower limb smaller or partially embedded ; 4 scales on 

 median line in front of dorsal ; lateral line interrupted under base of 



