1648 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



interrupted. Color uniform violet purple; vertical fins very dark. Ja- 

 maica (Giinther); unknown to us. According to Dr. Giinther "it has 

 exactly the same coloration (as Sparisomafrondosum\ with which it may 

 be easily confounded. 7 ' (Portuguese name for some parrot.) 



Pseudoscarus aracanga, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 227, 1862, Jamaica. 

 Scarus aracanga, JORDAN, Keview Labroid Fishes. 683, 1890. 



2061. SCARFS TRISPTXOSUS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



The type, a dried skin, is thus described by Guichenot: 

 Form of Pseudoscarus guacamaia : Jaws finely crenulate on the edge, their surface 

 smooth, except on lower jaw; teeth pale; 3 posterior canines above; scales of cheek in 

 3 rows; caudal somewhat rounded, its angles prolonged in sharp points. Color uniform 

 reddish brown, the caudal medially paler, its posterior margin and points blackish. A 

 very large skin sent by the Museum of Lisbon, supposed to come from Brazil. 



The specimen called Scarus quadrisplnosus is not evidently different. 

 This is a dried skin 400 mm. long and is thus described by Guichenot: 



Form of Scarus tceniopterus : Jaws trenchant, finely creuulate on the edge, their surface 

 smooth ; 4 canines on each side above ; 3 rows of scales on the cheek and 4 or 5 on opercle ; 

 caudal squarely truncate, its lobes obtuse and very short. Color olive brown, paler on 

 sides and belly, with no trace of bands nor lines on head nor fins; fins yellowish, except 

 the caudal, which is dusky. 



We have the following notes on the same specimen : 



Color entirely faded, possibly blue in life; 4 distinct posterior canines on right side of 

 upper jaw (the left side broken) ; snout rather long; caudal simply lunate ; cheek scales in 

 2 rows; 7 scales before dorsal; axil pale; fins apparently pale and plain. 



West Indies to Brazil, (irispinosus, three-spined.) 



Scarus trispinosus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 182, 1839, Brazil; JOR- 

 DAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 684, 1890. 



Scarus quadrispinosus, CUVIER &. VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 197, 1839, Mar- 

 tinique; GUICHENOT, Scarides, 27, 1865 (note on type) ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 1886, 542 (note on type). 



Pseudoscarus quadrispinosus, GOODE, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., v, 34, 1876. 



? Pseudoscarus chloris* GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 227, 1862 ; not Scarus chloris, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, 



Pseudoscarus trispinosus, GUICHENOT, Scarides, 23, 1865 (note on type). 



2062. SCARUS (TZAMILvE, Bean. 



Depth 3i. D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 9; eye 7-J- in head; scales 2-25-7. The 

 body is somewhat fusiform in shape. The jaws are whitish at the margin 

 and olivaceous over the rest of their surface ; 3 canines, directed outwards 

 and slightly backward on lower posterior edge of the upper jaw; upper 

 lip covering rather less than $ of the surface of the upper jaw; snout 

 attenuated ; a considerable depression above the nostrils; distance from tip 

 of upper jaw to the iris, measured obliquely, equals $ dorsal base and 



* The specimens from Jamaica, wrongly called Pseudoscarus chloris by Dr. Giinther, are 

 thus described : " Two series of scales on cheek and 2 scales 011 the lower limb of the pre- 

 operculum; the second series is composed of 4 scales; caudal rounded, with the lobes 

 produced ; 15 pectoral rays ; teeth very small. Nearly uniform green ; vertical fins edged 

 with dark green; nape or opercles sometimes reddish." 



