94. LABRIDJa — PLATYGLOSSUS. 603 



946. P. radiatus (L.) J. & G.— Blue- fish; DonccUa. 



Adult brilliaut azure-blue, eacli scale edged with bright pearly green; 

 a lougitudinal blue band on anal; margin of dorsal light blue; young 

 {'■'' cyanostigma'''') brownish, a light-blue spot on the base of each scale; 

 head with spots and stripes of bright blue; dorsal with 4 lines of stripes 

 and blot(;hes and a broad edge of blue; caudal with a broad white mar- 

 gin, the outer rays blue, the base of the flu spotted with blue; anal with 

 border and two longitudinal stripes of blue, besides a blue spot at the 

 base of each ray; pectoral with first 5 rays and a transverse line blue. 

 Head 4 ; depth 3. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 2-28-10. L. l6 inches. 

 West Indies, north to Key West. 



(Spams radiat us Liniia?us, kSyst. Nat. xii, 47*3, 17G6: Jidis ci/niiostigma, jirhicijiis, and 

 jmtatus Cuv. & Val. xiii, 39l-:398: Flctjifjlo.'i.sHx cifaiiosihima Giinther, iv, IGl : Platy- 

 ^/ossH« j;)-(HC(^9i» Giiutlier, iv, 164: Chccrojiilis radiatus Goode, Bull. U. S'. Nat. Mus. v, 

 35.) 



947. P. g^randisquaniis (Gill) J. & G. 



Color, in spirits, dark chestnut or brownish red ; a very dark vertical 

 spot bordered by steel-blue, behind the opercle; anal fin faintly barred; 

 caudal marbled, and with a marginal dark band. Body rather short 

 and stout. Profile slightly convex. Maxillary nearly reaching front of 

 orbit. Dorsal spines short, rather stitf. Caudal fin subtruncated. Head 

 3J; depth 3J. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; Lat. 1. 27. Beaufort, K C. 



(Chocrojiilis grandisquamis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 206.) 



94§. P. liunieralis (Poey) Gthr 



A black spot, edged with pearl color posteriorly, on the extremity of 

 the operculum; a brown band from the snout through the eye and the 

 opercular spot across the bend of the lateral line to the base of the 

 caudal; a second from below the axil along the side of the belly; a 

 bluish streak, edged with darker, from the eye obliquely upward and 

 backward, meeting its fellow on the nape; base of pectoral whitish, 

 without black spot ; caudal truncate, with blue angles. A black band 

 along the middle of the dorsal fin is described by Dr. Giinther, but is 

 wanting in the specimens seen by us. Head 3^ ; depth 'A-^. I). IX, 11; 

 A. Ill, 11; scales 2-29-10. Coast of Cuba, north to Florida. 



{Julit hnmcralis Poey, Mein. Cuba, ii, 212, 1858; Giinther, iv, 165: Chcerojulis hmnei-alis 

 Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 338.) 



949. P. seinicinclus (Ayres) Giinther. — Kdp-fish. 



Dark greenish brown, with bright reflections; head bronze-green 

 above; three or four narrow, horizontal, wavj' blue bands below the 



