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Five specimens, ranging in size from 3 to 5 inches in length, were col- 

 lected in the rock pools at Natal. 



189. Halichceres poeyi (Steindachner). 



One specimen, 4 inches in length, was taken in a tide pool at Natal. 

 In alcohol it is marked as follows : The body is light and some of the scales 

 above the middle of the side are dark brown at the base and are clustered 

 into more or less definite blotches. One of these blotches is just behind the 

 opercular flap, another is above the end of the pectoral, and posteriorly two 

 or three of them are run together. A large dark spot is behind the eye, a 

 small one is at the base of the last dorsal ray, and another is on the upper 

 edge of the pectoral base. The fins are all abruptly colorless. 



Family SCARID.^. 

 190. Sparisoma frondosum (Cuvier). 

 A rather common species in the tide pools about Natal. 

 191. Scams croicensis (Bloch). 



A single small specimen, slightly less than 2 inches in length, taken in a 

 tide pool at Natal, seems referable to this species, agreeing in all characters 

 but the color of the teeth, which are green as in the sub-genus Pscudoscarus. 



Family EPHIPPID^. 



192. Chaetodipterus faber (Broussonet) . 



Three specimens were taken in the market at Para, one of them very 

 large, with a gibbous forehead caused by hyperostosis. In one only 10 inches 

 in length the bones of the frontal and occipital region have become greatly 

 thickened. These specimens scarcely show any cross bars. Comparing them 

 with some of similar size from Jamaica they are much lighter in color, and 

 the dorsal and anal rays are not so much produced. 



Family CH.^TODONTID^. 



193. Holocanthus tricolor (Bloch). 



A small specimen was collected at Natal. 



194. Pomacanthns paru (Bloch). 



A specimen 8 inches long was taken in deep water by the trawl off 

 Natal. The discrepancies in the description published by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann (Fish. N. and Mid. Am., pp. 1679-1680) have led me to make an ex- 



