Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1647 



head, in specimens of 9 inches. Color in life, dark orange brown above; 

 the center of each scale greenish blue; rather abruptly paler below, 

 where the blue predominates as it does also on caudal peduncle; sides of 

 head with 2 horizontal stripes of deep bluish green, running from angle 

 of opercle through eye and meeting around snout, the interspace ante- 

 riorly yellowish, posteriorly brownish; head light greenish below ; jaws 

 pale; 2 green stripes, with a yellowish interspace on lower jaw; a 

 broad, bright-yellow band below level of green stripes of head, running 

 from base of pectorals backward nearly to middle of body; dorsal fin 

 greenish blue on lower half; above this a broad orange band, the fin mar- 

 gined with sky blue; caudal indigo bluish, with some vague yellow 

 shades, the outer rays bright orange, edged with indigo bluish ; anal green- 

 ish, blue at base, then a rather narrow stripe of orange, the outer half of 

 the fin bluish ; ventrals greenish and yellowish ; pectoral light vellow, no 

 dark blotch at its base. In spirits the orange fades to yellowish and the 

 blue to bright green. The yellow lateral band is, in spirits, dashed with 

 red. West Indies; generally common. Here described from specimens 9| 

 inches long from Havana, the types of Scar us virginalis. Others examined 

 are from Porto Rico and St. Thomas. The name psittacus has been used 

 by recent writers for this species. The original type of Coryphcena psitta- 

 cu8j sent by Dr. Garden from Charleston, is still preserved by the Linmean 

 Society of London. It has been examined by Dr. Bean, who has found it 

 to be a X I/rich thys. (raivia, ribbon; TtrEpor, fin.) 



Scarus tceniopterus,* DESMAREST, Diet. Classique, xv, 244, pi. 12, 1831, Cuba; CUVIER & 



VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xrv, 195 (same type) ; JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 



1886, 543 (note on original type) ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 683, 1890. 

 Scarus vctula, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ,xiv, 193, 1*839, St. Thomas; not 



of BLOCK & SCHNEIDER ; based on a figure of PARRA. 

 Pseudoscarus psiltacus, Gi'NTHKR, Cat., iv, 225, 1862 (after Coryphcena psittacus, L., which 



is a species of Xyrichthys ; not Scarus psittacus, FORSK!L, an Asiatic species); 



GUICHENOT, Scarides. Mus. Paris, 25, 1865: POEY, Synopsis, 347; POEY, Enumeratio, 116. 

 Scarus virginalis, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 88, Havana (Coll. Jordan) ; 



JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 47. 



Pteudoscarus tceniopterus, GUICHENOT, Scarid6s, Mus. Paris, 26, 1865. 

 Scarus psittacus, COPE, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 1871, 461. 



2060. SCARUS ARACANGA (Giinther). 



Two series of scales on cheek, and 2 scales on lower preopercnlar 

 limb; canines 2 or 3 on each side, the middle series composed of 6 

 scales; lips broad; jaws rosy, the upper with 2 or 3 small pointed promi- 

 nences at the angle; teeth small; dorsal spines flexible; caudal trun- 

 cated; 14 pectoral rays; tubes of the lateral line simple; lateral line 



mare. , 



Another specimen from the museum at Geneva, 0.30 m. long, is in better condition. 

 The colors on the dorsal show more plainly, and there are 2 dusky bands on the anal. 

 The outer ray of caudal above and below is paler than the others. 



This is identical with the other specimen, and both seem to belong to the species called 

 Scarus virginalis, by Jordan & Swain (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 88). 



