1656 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



external border of the ventrals, which are long and pointed; forehead 

 with a fleshy hump in the adult. West Indies; probably not rare, reach- 

 ing a large size; recorded by Poey from Havana, and from St. Thomas by 

 Ple'e; known to us only from the examination of the original type, a dried 

 skin in the museum at Paris, (coelestinus, heavenly (blue).) 



Scarus coelestinus* CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss^xiv, 180, 1839, St. Thomas ; 



JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mua. 1886, 543 (note on original type) ; JORDAN, Review 



Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 

 Pseudoscarus coelestinus, GOICHENOT, Scarides, 22, 1865 (note on type) ; POEY, Synopsis, 



349, 1868; POEY, Enumeratio, 118, 1875. 



2072. PSEUDOSCARUS SIMPLEX, Poey. 



Snout pointed; jaws large, blue, with coarse creiiulations ; tubes of 

 the lateral line without branches. Color entirely blue. Length 3 feet. 

 Cuba. (Poey); not seen by us; apparently differing from Pseudoscarus 

 ccclestinus only in the simple tubes of the lateral line, (simplex, simple.) 



Pseudoscarus simplex, POEY, Repertorio, i, 185, 1867, Havana; POEY, Synopsis, 349,1868; 



POEY, Enumeratio, 118, 1875. 

 Scarus simplex, JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 



2073. PSEUDOSCARUS PLEIANUS (Poey). 



Body oblong oval; jaws large, very convex, the crenulations large and 

 round; upper part of the jaws blue; upper jaw with from 3 to 6 posterior 

 canines (3 on one side in type, 5 or 6 on the other) ; cheek with 2 rows 

 of scales. Color red, shaded with blue and green ; green under pectoral, 

 and along the side and posterior part of the body; head, anterior and 

 upper part of the back, and belly grayish yellow; dorsal and anal brown, 

 spotted with green along their bases; pectorals and ventrals tinted with 

 green ; caudal grayish yellow. Size large. St. Thomas. Only the type, 

 a very large dried skin, known ; not seen by us. It is evident that Scarus 

 guacamaia Cuvier & Valenciennes, the " Grand Scare auxmachiores bleus," 

 with 3 to 6 posterior canines, can not be the original Scants guacamaia of 

 Cuvier, which has no canines at all. No writer has examined any other 

 specimens referable to the guacamaia of Valenciennes, but Poey has given 

 to these descriptions the name Scarus pleianus, which the species must keep 

 if it be really valid. (Named for M. Ple'e, who collected for Cuvier in the 

 West Indies.) 



Scarus guacamaia, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 178, 1839, St. Thomas. 



(Coll. Plee.) 

 Pseudoscarus guacamaia, GUICHENOT, Scarides, 21, 1865 (note on type) ; not Scarus gua- 



camaia, CUVIEE. 

 Scarus pleianus, POEY, Memorias, n, 393, 1861, St. Thomas ; based on Scarus guacamaia, 



COVIER & VALENCIENNES; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 687, 1890. 



*We have the following note on the type of Scarus ccelestinus: "A large stuffed skin, 

 0.60 in. long, from St. Thomas. (Pice.) Color now plain dusky (perhaps blue in life) ; 

 teeth apparently dark green; forehead fat; a single canine on right side of upper jaw, 



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robust; head3; depth 3." 



