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as distinct as in S. abilgaardi; the barred pattern of the caudal fin 

 contains rather characteristic large rounded white areas; distal margin 

 of caudal is white over an area usually half the width of the pupil of 

 eye; a dark scale just behind upper edge of opercular opening, partly 

 covered by the opercular flap is a characteristic mark. 



Dr. Howard Winn, University of Maryland, records the living 

 colors for a mature male, about 365 mm. in standard length, collected 

 at Bermuda, July 21, 1956, as follows: Caudal fin yellow, anal red, 

 pelvics dark pink, pectoral pink, dorsal yellowish-brown; ventral 

 part of body reddish. In alcohol the pectoral base is brown, and 

 pectoral fin whitish. 



I have examined a large number of lots of this species, some of which 

 contain numerous specimens, from the following localities: Florida, 

 11 lots; Florida Keys, 10; Cuba, 3; Puerto Rico, 8; Old Providence 

 Island, 2; Panama, 17; Cozumel, 2; Sabinilla, 1; West Indies, 2; St. 

 Lucia, 1; Curacao, 1; Gulf of Venezuela, 1; and Brazil, 2. Also 3 

 lots from Bermuda, loaned by the Chicago Natural History Museum 

 and 23 lots from the Bahamas, loaned by Dr. Bohlke. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species from the East Atlantic. 



Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch and Schneider) 



Plates 4,b; 23, b 



Scarus chrysopterum Bloch and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . . , p. 286, 



pi. 57, 1801 (type locality: "American Seas"). 

 Scarus squalidus Poey, Memorias . . . , vol. 2, p. 218, 1860 (type locality: 



Cuba). 

 Scarus lateralis Foey, Memorias . . . , vol. 2, p. 219, 1860 (type locality: Cuba; 



holotype USNM 154844). 

 Scarus brachialis Poey, Memorias . . . , vol. 2, p. 345, 1861 (type locality: 



Cuba). 

 Scarus maschalespilos (in part) Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 14, p. 127, 



1862 (type locality: Surinam). 

 Sparisoma lorito Jordan and Swain Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, p. 95, 1884 



(type locality: Havana; holotype USNM 35082). 

 Sparisoma elongatum Meek and Hildebrand, Marine fishes of Panama, pt. 3, 



p. 575, pi. 74, fig. 2, 1928 (type locality: Panama City Market, Panama; 



holotype USNM 81504). 



This species is characterized by the slightly concave interorbital 

 space, sometimes flattish, only a trifle convex in young; upper edge 

 of base of pectoral with a saddlelike dark spot, absent in small 

 juveniles; anterior nostril with a ribbonlike dermal flap that may 

 have at its distal tip from none to about 4 cirri, rarely one more in 

 adults and sometimes a few little knoblike" cutI along edge of dermal 

 flap; membranes just behind tips of dorsal spineg usually without a 

 dermal cirrus, sometimes with 1 or 2 feeble ones, the tip of dorsal spine 

 usually ends in a short cirrus; caudal fin truncate to concave or even 



