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Color (in spirits) greenish-olive, yellowish about the mouth. A broad 

 irregularly-outliued band across the snout, and from its extremities there 

 passes backward a prolongation which touches the anterior margin of 

 the orbit, and then passes along the superior border of the eye to the 

 posterior part of the interorbital space, where it joins with its fellow of 

 the opposite side, inclosing an irregularly-shaped triangular space on 

 the front of the interocular region. Frequently (in smaller specimens) 

 there is a narrow dark streak from the superior border of the orbit 

 toward the middle of the interorbital space ; this streak is sometimes 

 reduced to rounded spots in the same situation ; a short streak from 

 the middle of the posterior margin of the eye ; a band below the eye, 

 commencing near its anterior edge, and prolonged beyond the posterior 

 margin. Frequently two ocelli, one on either side, in front of the band 

 on the snout, and also one behind and above the angle of tlie mouth ; a 

 very narrow band around the margin of the upper lip ; a broad band 

 around the lower jaw, the two halves of which scarcely meet below in 

 the median line ; it broadens above, just below the angle of the mouth, 

 where it is directed backward ; it frequently arches downward and back- 

 ward in this situation. It coalesces with the narrow supramaxillary 

 baud, and in some instances a narrow band passes from it to the band 

 across the snout. Occasionally there is an ocellus on the lower jaw, 

 behind the marginal baud. Dorsal and anal fins with a narrow band 

 along the margin, and with one or two rows of intermarginal spots. Fre- 

 quently (in young specimens) these spots are confluent transversely or 

 longitudinally, forming either vertical streaks or longitudinal bands. 

 Caudal with reticulating transverse bands. 



Lengths, 14, 12, 11 inches. 



Locality : Palmyra Island. 



To William H. Jones, M. D., Surgeon, U. S. N., an indefatigable col- 

 lector in natural history, and to whose zeal we are chiefly indebted for 

 this collection, I dedicate this species, in remembrance of pleasant hours 

 passed together as collaborers, and as messmates. 



PSEUDOSCARUS ^RUGINOSUS, BlTcr. [Xo. 19221]. 



f Scarus wruginosus, Cuv. & Vai,., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xiv, 1839, 257.' 

 Scarm lacerta, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., 217. 



Scarus ceruginosus, Bleeker, Ver. Bat. Gen., xsii, 1849, Ldbr., Cijel., 58. 

 Paeudoscanis ceruginosus, Bi.eeker, Atl. Ichth., i, 13(32, Lahr., 40. pi. 17, f. 2— GDnther, 

 Cat. Fish., iv, 1862, 229. 



Color (in spirits) greenish on the sides of the body and head, brown- 

 Bull. N. M. No. 7—6 



