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Pseudoscarus cceruleus, GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 227 — Guichenot, Proc. 



Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 1865, 24.— Poey, Eep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, 



348. 

 Trompa, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 57, lam. xxvii, f. 2. 

 Loro, Parra, 1. c. f. 1. 

 Scarus loro, Schneider, op. cit. 288. 



Scai-us irilohatus, Lac£p£:de, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 21. 

 Sparus liolocyanosus, LAciipiiDE, op. cit. 45. 



The "Clamacore"or"Kilmagore"is very unusual in Bermudian waters; 

 a single specimen of thirty-six inches was taken outside the reefs in 

 April, 1872, and was an object of much curiosity. The color in life was 

 brilliant turquoise-blue, fading to olive-green in alcohol. The species 

 is recorded from Cuba and some of the adjoining islands. 



Dr. Giinther suggests that this species is probably only the adult stage 

 of one of the other species, such as Pseudoscarus chloris,* but an ex- 



* The study of the syuonymy of this species has brought to light an error, which 

 may be referred to here. It appears that Parra's Vieja, No. 3, and Schneider's Scarua 

 Moris, founded upon the figure of Parra, belong, not to Pseudoscarus, as is intimated by 

 Dr. Giinther, but to Scarus; such is the judgment of Professor Poey after consulting 

 the type of Parra's description, preserved in the Museum in Madrid. M. Guichenot, 

 after an examination of the types in the Mus6e d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, retains in 

 this genus Scarus virens, Valenc. There now remains only Scarus quadrispinosus, Val., 

 as a synonym of Giinther's Pseudoscarus chloris, and, of these names, that of Valen- 

 ciennes has undoubted priority. The reversed synonymy should stand then some- 

 what as follows : — 



SCARUS CHLORIS, Sclin. 



Vieja, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. N.it. Cuba, 1787, 59, lam. 28, f. 3. 



Scarus chloris, Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 289 (on Parra's figure).— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 



1870, 461. 

 Pseudoscarus chloris, Gunthee, Cat, Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 227. 

 Scarus virens, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. siv, 1839, 203.— Storer, Syn. Fish. N. Am. 1846, 146.— 



MtJLLER & Troschel in Schomburgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 674. 

 Scarus chrysopterus, Schneider, op. cit. 286, pi. Iviii.— Cuv. & Val., op. cit. 185. — Stoker, op. cit. 143. — 



Cope, op. cit. 462. 

 Scarus lateralis, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1860, ii, 219; Hep. Pis. Nat. 1, 1867, 337, 375. 



Habitat. — Cuba, Santa Cruz, Saint Christopher's, Saint Thomas, Martinique, Porto 

 Rico, Barbados. 



Pseudoscarus quadrispinosus, ( Ydlenc.) OuicJienot. 



Scarus quadrispinosus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xiv, 1839, 197.— Stoeer, Syn. Pish. N. Am. 184C, 



144. 

 Pseudoscarus quadrispinosus, Guichenot, Proc. Soc. Imp. Sci.-Nat. Cherbourg. 1865, 27. 

 ? Scarus obtusus, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1860, 217; Eep. Fis.-Nat. ii, 1868, 349. 

 Pseudoscarus chloris (not Bloch), Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 227.— CoPE, Trans. Am. Phil. 



Soc. 1870, 461. 



Habitat. — Saint Thomas, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas. 



