12B bulletin: museum of compakative zoology. 



I. garnoti (Cuv. & Val.). 



Distribution. — West Indies. 



One small specimen obtained in Castle Harbor. The species has not been 

 recorded from Bermuda before. 



I. bivittatus (Bloch). Slippery Dick. 

 Platyglossus bivittatus Bloch. Goode, '76% p. 75. Garman, :00, p. 510. 



Distribution. — West Indies ; Curoliuas to Brazil. 

 D. 9+11; A. 3 + 12. 

 Very common everywhere. 



Chlorichthys nitidissimus (Goode). Slippery Dick. 

 Jordan & Evermann, '96-00, vol. 2 (1898), p. 1608. 



Distribution. — The Bermudas. 

 Rather common about the outer reefs. 



SCARIDAE. 



Sparisoma abildgaardi (Block). 



Distribution. — West Indies to Brazil. 



D. 9 + 10; A. 2 + 9. 



This and the three following species are all called Parrot fishes. I have a 

 single specimen of this species taken in a fish pot off the south shore. It does 

 not appear to have been recorded from so far north before. 



S. viride (Bonnateree). 

 Distribution. — West Indies. 

 D. 9 + 10; A. 2 + 9. 



A single specimen, which was taken with the preceding species, is the only 

 on6 we obtained. The natives consider it very rare. 



Scarus croicensis (Bloch). 

 Pieudoscarus sanctae-criicis Giinther. Goode, '76-^, p. 75. 



Distribution. — West Indies generally. 



D. 9+10; A. 2 + 9. 



Not uncommon in Castle Harbor and occasional in Flatts Inlet. There are 

 several specimens taken from both localities in the collection made in the 

 summer of 1903. 



S. caeruleus (Bloch). 

 Pseudoscarus caeruleus (Bloch) Giinther. Goode, '76=', p. 33. 

 P. psittacus Goode, '76, p. 75. 

 Distributio7i. — West Indies, on our coast, rare. 

 D. 9+10; A. 2 + 9. 

 Not uncommon. 



