Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1651 



common; 1 of the smaller species; taken by Dr. Jordan at Havana and 

 Key West. Specimens from Bermuda, Tortugas, St. Thomas, and St. 

 Croix examined by us. Poey recognizes Pseudoscarus lineolatus, with the 

 3 streaks along the side of the breast, as a species distinct from P. sancta- 

 crucis (croicensis) , in which these markings are obsolete. These stripes 

 are present in all our specimens from Cuba and Florida, but in a larger 

 example from St. Lucia they are very faint or obsolete. Their absence is 

 probably a matter of age, not of specific difference, (croicensis, living in 

 St. Croix, where the species was discovered.) 



Calli/odon, GRONOW, Museum Ichthyol., II, 8, 1763; GRONOW, Zoophylaceum, 244, t.7, f. 4 



(sine patria) . 

 Scants croinimis, BLOCH, Ichthyol., pi. 221, 1790, St. Croix; probably more than 1 species 



included; JORDAN \, GILHKKT, Synopsis, 938, 1883; JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 1884, 87 ; JORDAN, I. c., 137 ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 47 ; BEAN, Bull. TJ. 



S. Fish Cornm. 1888, 198 ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 685, 1890. 

 Erychtlnjs croicensis, SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Class'n Fishes, n, 226, 1839 (name only). 

 Scarus insulce-sanctce-crucis, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichthyol., 285, 1801 (after BLOCK), 



St. Croix. 

 Calliodon lineatus, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichthyol., 312, pi. 62, f. 2, 1801 (after GRONOW) ; 



GRONOW, Syst. Nat., Ed. Gray, 84, 1854 (sine patria). 



Si'.iinis alternans, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 200, 1839, Martinique. 

 rs<'udoscarus lineolatus, POEY, Ilepertorio, u, 239, 1868, Cuba ; POEY, Enumeratio, 119, 1875. 

 Pte-iHlosc.ants sanctce-crucis, GUNTHEH, Cat., iv, 226, 1862; GUICHENOT, Scarides, Mus. Paris, 



29, 1865 ; POEY, Synopsis, 350, 1868 ; POEY, Enumeratio, 119, 1875. 

 Scarus sanctce-crucis, COPE, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 461. 



>JO<;<;. SCARUS EYERMANNI, Jordan. 



Head 2f (3| in total); depth 2f. Teeth pale; no canines; caudal fin 

 (mutilated) apparently subtruncate in life; scales on cheek in 2 rows. In 

 life, bright green, olivaceous above, paler below; the lower half of the 

 body becoming posteriorly more and more yellow, and on the lower half 

 of the caudal peduncle bright light yellow; this color brightest above 

 front of anal; a longitudinal band of bright crimson (fading to whitish in 

 spirits) on body on level of eye, but narrower than eye and growing 

 fainter behind ; some crimson marks on the scales above this band forming 

 a faint interrupted band below lateral line; both these bands continued 

 on head to eye with a band of green (brown in spirits) between them; 

 sides of belly each with 3 sharply defined lines of indigo black, like ink 

 marks, each on a row of scales, these stripes running from the breast to 

 beyond front of anal ; no spot on base of pectoral ; bright green on top of 

 head above eyes, reddish below; caudal fin green, its lower half yellow; 

 dorsal, anal, and pectorals (mutilated in the type), apparently all green, 

 at least at base; ventrals yellow. In spirits, fading to brown, with 1 

 distinct pale lateral stripe on level of lower part of eye, and a fainter one 

 above it. Blue-black streaks on sides of belly not fading in alcohol; a 

 small dark spot on upper edge of caudal peduncle near base of caudal. 

 Gulf of Mexico, in deep water, with Scarus lollmam. The type, 3 inches, 

 was obtained from the stomach of a red grouper, off Tampa Bay, by 

 Charles H. Bollman. Very close to Scarus croicensis, and similar to it in 

 pattern of coloration, except that the sharply defined streaks on the sides 



