ADDENDA 94. LABRID.E PLATYGLOSSUS. 937 



daik-biuiize strii)e from pectoral backward; each scale of sides with a 

 greenish-blue crescent; sides of head orange; a blue wavy stripe below 

 eye, turning downward on subopercle; opercle with an indigo spot. 

 bordered by bluish and yellow; tipof oi)ercle yellow, the color bounded 

 by a blue <-shisped line; lower jaw with bands of orange and whitish; 

 a small inky spot at base of last ray of soft dorsal; dorsal cherry-red, 

 with translucent bands; caudal reddish; anal banded with red and 

 pale; pectorals yellowish; ventrals white. Body slender; snout not 

 very sharp; posterior canine small. Dorsal spines low, stiff and pun- 

 gent; caudal short, obliquely truncate. Head 3^; depth 4 (4;i in total). 

 D. IX, 11; A. HI, 12; scales 1^-20-8. L. 3| inches. Pensacola Bay. 

 Old specimens, (Charleston, S. C.) are deeper-bodied and have the 

 posterior part of the caudal, especially the angles, black or dark-blue, 

 the basal part of the tin with concentric, convex, broad streaks of or- 

 ange, with narrower bluish interspaces; the dorsal is largely orange, 

 with a median blackish or brown band, which is otten obsolete, its base 

 with crimson spots; anal with a crimson band and some bluish streaks. 

 Black s])ot at base of last dorsal ray disappearing with age. Females 

 with the dark lateral band less distinct, the colors duller, the dark 

 dorsal band more distinct than in the males. Head 3§; depth 3, in 

 adult. Nortii Carolina to Surinam. 



To the synonymy add: 



(Lfthrus hlritlattis IJloch, Ic.htliyol. tiif. 284, f. 1; Jiilis psitiaculus C. & V. xiii, :iti7 ; 

 Giiuilii'i-, iv, lti-1; StcMiidaclnier, Icbtliyol. Notiz. vi, 49, 1807: PlatyfiJossiin Jlonalis Jov. 

 & Gill). Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 287: I'latyyloasus (jrandisquamis and hnmcraUn, 

 tliis work, ]». '.;0:). ) 



948 {b). P. c-aosclaBBS (Poey) Gtbr. 



Olivaceous; a row of sky-blue spots on each side of ba(;k; a broad 

 area of orange, intermingled with violet s])Ots, extending along sides, 

 most cons|)icu(nis anteriorly; below this a band of ])ale \iolet, becoming 

 posteriorly spots of deej; violet; still lower a deep yellow band bnund- 

 ing the white of the belly; preorbital and suborbital scarlet, with 3 

 blue stripes, marked with cherry-red; cheeks below yellowish; ojjcr- 

 cles bright red, with ;> obliipie violet stripes, the upper forming behind 

 eye an oblique blotch, in the middle of which is a round ink-like s])ot; 

 no oi>ercular spot; dorsal orange, the soft part with 3 rows of violet 

 spots; caudal orange and blue, the tormer color arranged in 1 longi- 

 tudinal, 2 maigina!, and 2 converging bands, wliicii are Joined by re- 

 ticulations around bluish spots; anal with a basal row (»f orange spots, 

 then blue sjmts, then a yellow band, then blue, tlien linally edged with 



