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Allied to Sparisoma Jiavescens ; tLe dentition the same. Xo posterior 

 canines. Three scales on cheek. Caudal lunate, the angles short but 

 sharp; depth of body 3 in length. 



Mottled olive-brown ; a faint pale streak along lateral line ; three or 

 four similar ones below it, the interval brown and mottled ; a very 

 faint pale blotch on back of tail with a dark brown blotch before and 

 behind it; three other dark blotches below dorsal; all these markings 

 obscure and diffuse. Dorsal mottled everywhere; caudal with dark 

 cross-bars and pale spots, more sharply marked than in S. flavescens, 

 its posterior margin abruptly whitish; anal pale, mottleJ, and with four 

 oblique cross-bars of darker; pectoral pale, with paler mottlings, its 

 axil pale brown, this m;irk much less distinct than the axillary spot in 

 flavescens; chin and snout dark; a pale band across chin; the most 

 sharply defined dark markings those on upper and lower edge of caudal 

 and its peduncle. 



The young specimen has many dark points on the head and a dark 

 opercular blotch. The whitish edge to the caudal is conspicuous, and 

 the pale streaks along the side. 



I have examined one of the specimens of S. distimtuni sent by Poey 

 to the National iMuseum. It seems to be specifically identical with the 

 species here described, but there is a distinct ])osterior canine on each 

 side. 



91. Sparisoma radians (Cuv. & Val.) {Scar uh lacrimosus Foey ; i. Scarus niomarius 



Poey.) 



One adult; two young. Caudal slightly rounded; canines 3-4 on 

 each side, radiating; depth 3 in body. 



Color dark brown, vaguely blotched, with darker, the dark shades 

 forming faint bars ; a sharply defined blue streak from eye downward 

 and forward, especially distinct in the young; chin with a faint white 

 cross-band; axd dark; fins dark and .almost plain; only the and 

 mottled. 



This species, which has not yet been taken on the coast of the Uuited 

 States, seems to be the original Scams radians. The species has been 

 more or less confused with the next. 



92. Sparisoma hoplomystax (Cope) {S2)arisoina cijanolenc Jordan & Swaiu). 



One specimen; the characteristic blue area about the pectorals very 

 distinct. More mottled than /S'. radians, with vague longitudinal 

 streaks along the side. Chin with two white cross-bands, the posterior 

 imperfect. A row of white specks bounding the blue of the pectorals. 



I see no reason to doubt that S. hoplomiistax was founded on a faded 

 example of the species called 8. cyanolene, 



93. Cryptotomus roseus Cope. 



Throe specimens. A very slender lish, with long and very flexible dor- 

 sal spines, scarcely different from the soft rays. Scales on breast very 



