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I have studied numerous specimens in lots from the following 

 localities: Phoenix Islands, 1 lot; Ifaluk Atoll, 2; Marshalls, 23; 

 Celebes, 1; Raroia Atoll, 8; Kapingamarangi Atoll, 4; and Philippines 

 and vicinity, 29. 



Bloch (Naturgeschichte der auslandischer Fische, vol. 4, p. 23, 

 pi. 220, 1790) named Scarus cretensis from a painting. It was re- 

 named Scarus striatus by Cuvier and Valenciennes (Histoire naturelle 

 des poissons, vol. 14, p. 209, 1839), on the basis of Bloch 's plate. 

 This plate is so highly inaccurate that no reliance can be placed on it 

 for identification purposes. All the dorsal rays are depicted as 

 branched soft rays, the head is fully scaled, and the vertical rows of 

 scales number 18, characters which do not occur for parrotfishes. 

 Thus, I am following Weber and de Beaufort and Fowler in concluding 

 that the plate represents a hypothetical species. 



There is no doubt, however, that the specimens identified as this 

 species are the same as those described by Bleeker as Scarus micro- 

 rhinos. 



Scarus harid Forsk&l 



Figure 5; Plate 9,b 



Scarus harid Forsk§,l, Descriptiones animalium, pp. x, 30, 1775 (type locality: 



Arabia) . 

 Scarus •psillacus (non Linnaeus) Forsk&l, Descriptiones animalium, pp. x, 29, 



1775 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus mastax Riippell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika . . . , Fische des 



rothen Meeres, p. 80, pi. 21, fig. 2, 1828 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus collana Riippell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika . . . , Fische des 



rothen Meeres, p. 25, pi. 8, fig. 2, 1835 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus cyanurus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 261, 1839 (type locality: Red Sea; type examined in Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 



Paris, Cat. No. 261). 

 Scarus collaris Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 265, 1839 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus latus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 245, 1839 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus longiceps Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 241, 1839 (type locality; Waigeu). 

 Scarus ruppelii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 259, 1839 (type locality; Red Sea). 

 Scarus macrocheilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. -Indie, vol. 6, p. 60, 1854, 



(type locality; Halmahera; type examined in British Museum, Cat. No. 



1864.5.15.31, standard length 88 mm). 

 Pseudoscarus mastax, Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, p. 35, pi. 10, 



fig. 2, 1862 (Java). 

 Pseudoscarus macrocheilus Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, p. 38, pi. 15, 



fig. 1, 1862. 

 Scarus -pinguirostratus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 



p. 541, pi. 21, upper fig., 1904 (type locality, Padang, Sumatra). 



