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flavor, is soft and rather poor. lu the Havana market it is usually called 

 Vieja colorada, but the species of this group are seldom distinguished by 

 the fishermen. We have examined specimens from St. Thomas, Jere~rnie, 

 Hayti, Port au Prince, Tortugas, Nassau, Rio Janeiro, Jamaica, and St. 

 Lucia. There is considerable variation in the amount of redness in this 

 species, large ones being usually more rosy than the young, (flavescens, 

 yellowish.) 



Vieja, PARBA, Descr. Piezas Dif. Hist. Nat. 1787, 59, pi. 28, fig. 4, Cuba. 

 Scarus flavescens, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Icbth., ^90, 1801; after PARRA; POEY, 

 Eimmeratio, 113, 1875 (identification of Scarus squalidus with PARRA'S figure) ; JOR- 

 DAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 137. 

 Scarus squalidus, POEY, Memorias, n, 218, 1860, Cuba; POEY, Synopsis, 338; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 938, 1883; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 212, 1802. 

 Callyodon flivescens, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 288, 1839. 

 Sparisoma flavescens, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 92; JORDAN, Proc. F. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1886, 47 ; BEAN, Bull. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1888, 198; JORDAN, Kevievv Labroid 

 Fishes, 672, 1890 ; JORDAN & RUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.1897, 119. 



2053. SPARISOMA RUBRIPINNE (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 4 in total length with caudal ; depth 3| ; eye 5f in head, 2f in 

 snout, 2 in distance from angle of mouth; no posterior canine; lower jaw 

 projecting; pores on head; suborbital with venules; a fleshy prominence 

 on forehead; scales of lateral line with 3 or 4 ramifications. Adult with 

 the caudal truncate, not concave, the points very slightly salient. Oliva- 

 ceous; a yellow transverse baud below mouth; dorsal olivaceous, clouded 

 with dark points on the soft rays; anal rosy, clouded; ventral rosy, with 

 red and white points; pectoral yellowish, with a diffuse reddish-brown 

 spot at its base above; caudal olivaceous, with clear brown points; 

 a vertical band of clear yellowish, separated from the margin by an orange 

 area; another specimen has the caudal orange olive, with irregular bands, 

 the subterminal bar not pronounced. West Indies. This description is 

 based upon the specimen which Poey took as the type of his Scarus trun- 

 catus, which we are unable to separate from this species. A specimen 

 9 inches long, from Jamaica, in alcohol, was olive, mottled with lighter, 

 nearly white below; a rather distinct whifce band below chin; dorsal 

 mottled; caudal strongly marked with cross blotches, a pair of subter- 

 minal blotches of white which nearly meet in the middle ; other fins all 

 white, the pectoral dusky (not black) at base; no yellow blotch behind 

 dorsal. Margin of caudal concave; forehead strongly convex, (rubcr, 

 red; pinna, fin.) 



Scarus rubripinnis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 199, 1839, San Domingo 

 (Coll. Kicord) ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 211 ; GUICHENOT, Scarides, 13, 1865. 



Scarus virens, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 203, 1839, Porto Rico 

 (Coll.Plee), Martinique (Coll. Achard). 



Sparisoma rubripinne, JORDAN & RUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 119. 



Scarus chloris, GUICHENOT,* Scarides, 14, 1865, type of Scarus virens ; not of BLOCK & 

 SCHNEIDER. 



Guichenot gives the following account of the types of Scarus virens, called by him 



'rtispnln<r'>.s* " 



Scarus chloris : 



>rming ft 



