1638 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



head greenish ; purplish on cheeks, light green below ; lips green ; dorsal 

 and anal orange, the rays grayish dusky ; caudal pale orange, the outer 

 rays greenish, the posterior margin of fin dusky; ventrals flesh color, 

 tinged with pinkish ; pectorals orange olive, the base of upper rays with a 

 dark spot, its axil pale. West Indies. Here described from the type, an 

 adult specimen 10 inches in length, taken at Havana. Other specimens are 

 in the museum at Cambridge from St. Thomas, Sombrero, Barbados, and 

 Jcremie, Hayti, and in Stanford University from Jamaica. Although it 

 is evidently not a rare species, we are unable to identify it with any of 

 those described by Poey, or by Cuvier & Valenciennes, (lorito, Spanish 

 diminutive ofloro, parrot.) 



Sparisoma lorito, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 95, Havana (Coll. D. S. 

 Jordan); JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 47; JORDAN, Eeview Labroid Fishes, 

 674, 1890; JORDAN & RUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PMla. 1897, 120. 



2050. SPARISOMA Y1RIDK (Bonnaterre). 

 (DARK GREEN PARROT-FISH.) 



Caudal fin in adult deeply forked, the upper lobe about as long as the 

 head, and twice or more the length of the inner rays, variegated ; canines 

 1 or 2 on each side; upper and lower caudal lobes greenish. Deep 

 blue, scales edged with brownish, which above makes 1 or 2 contin- 

 uous streaks; top of head light grayish brown, a similar band'from eye to 

 above gill opening, another paler stripe from opercle to corner of mouth 

 and edges of both lips; edge of opercle below pale grayish, changing to 

 bright orange above, a deep-yellow spot at tip of opercle ; no inky-black 

 spot on opercle; lips deep blue except for the gray edging; head below 

 livid olive; dorsal light yellowish, tips of spines and rays normally blue, 

 base of soft part blue; anal bluish gray, with deep-blue band at base and 

 edge; pectoral blue gray, edged with bright blue above, tips broadly 

 orange; caudal blue green, with a lunate yellow band, behind this a deep- 

 blue band, tips of rays pale, outer rays deep blue, a faint band of golden 

 gray at base; ventrals yellowish, blue anteriorly. West Indies; generally 

 common ; one of the largest and most strongly marked of the parrot-fishes ; 

 the specimens here described from Jamaica, Sombrero Key and St. Thomas. 

 (viridis, green.) 



Piscis viridis bahamensis (the Parrot-fish), CATESBY, Nat. Hist. Car., n, 29, pi. 29, 1738, 



Bahamas. 

 Scarus viridis, BONNATERRE, Enc. Meth.,x, 96, 193, 1788, Bahamas, after CATESBY ; not 



Scarus viridis, BLOCH, 1790. 



Callyodon psittacus, GRONOW, Ed. Gray, 84, 1854 ; not of LINNJEUS. 

 Scarus melanotis, BLEEKER, Notices Ichthyologiques, i-x, 4, 1862, St. Croix. 

 Scarus catesby, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 16, 3803 ; after CATESBY. 

 Scarus catesbwi, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 183,1839; PoEY,Eeper- 



torio, i, 372, 1867 ; GUICHENOT, Scarides, n, 1865 ; GUNTHER, Cat , iv, 210, 1862. 

 Sparisoma catesbyi, BEAN & DRESEL, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 153. 

 Sparisoma catesbmi, JORDAN, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 191. 

 Sparisoma viride, JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 675, 1890; JORDAN & RUTTER, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 120. ' 



