1652 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



of the breast are in S. erermanni inky blue, in S. croiccnsis whitish. 

 (Named for Barton Warren Evermann.) 



Scams evermanni, JORDAN, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus. 1886, 469, off Tampa Bay (Type, ISTo. 

 37990. Coll. C. H. Bollman) ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 685, 1890. 



2067. SCABUS FLAVOMABGINATUS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Jaws trenchant, their ereiiulations little marked ; 110 canines ; 3 series of 

 scales on the cheek ; caudal squarely truncate, its outer rays not produced ; 

 body deeper than in S. croicensis, the snout more blunt. Color yellowish 

 brown ; no bands or lines upon body or head ; dorsal spotted with violet ; 

 a yellow line near the edge, and another along the base of the dorsal; 

 caudal unspotted. (Guichenot. ) Martinique. Known only from the scanty 

 descriptions of Valenciennes and Guichenot, taken from one young speci- 

 men. (flavus f yellow; marginatus, margined.) 



Scarus flavomarginatui, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 202, 1839, 



Martinique (Coll. Plee) ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 686, 1890. 

 Pseudoscarus flavomarginatus, GUICHENOT, Scarifies, 30, 1865 (note on type). 



2068. SCABUS ACUTUS, Poey. 



(LORO.) 



Head rather slender; depth 3 in length, equal to length of head; eye 

 7 in head in middle of its length; caudal subtruncate with salient angles; 

 snout rather pointed ; nostrils close together ; no posterior canines; cheek 

 with 4 rows of scales. Teeth whitish ; general color violaceous ; sides with 

 a broad whitish band ; fins plain reddish, the upper violaceous ; upper lip 

 deep blue, lower carmine; head olivaceous above, rosy below. Cuba 

 (Poey) ; not seen by us. Perhaps identical with Scarus gnathodus, which 

 seems to differ only in the presence of posterior canines; their absence in 

 the types of acutus may be due to individual variations, (acutus, sharp- 

 pointed.) 



Scarus acntus, POEY, Memorias, n, 216, 1861, Havana; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 



684, 1890. 

 Pseudoscarus acutiis, POEY, Synopsis, 350, 1868; POEY, Enumeratio, 118, 1875. 



2069. SCARUS C^BULEUS (Bloch). 

 (BLUE PARROT-FISH; LORO; CLAMAGORE.) 



Head 3i (3j with caudal) ; depth 3 (3|). D. IX, 10 ; A. II, 9 ; scales 2- 

 24-6; eye small, 5| in head; snout rather acute, 2 in head. Body rather 

 elongate, the form subeiliptical in the young, becoming deep with age, a 

 great fleshy hump on the forehead in old individuals. Jaws small, with 

 smooth edges, whitish in the adult, rosy in the young; no posterior canine 

 teeth; upper lip covering about i of upper jaw; cheek with 2 rows of 

 scales, the scales of the upper row nearly twice as broad as those of the lower; 

 below the lower part is a partial row of 2 scales; 6 sc f iles on median line 

 of back before dorsal. Pectoral not reaching past tips of ventrals; origin 

 of ventral spine under posterior end of pectoral base; ventrals reaching 

 midway between base of fins and front of anal; caudal slightly rounded ; 



