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well known as Clavier's, and has been generally adopted. Midler proposed the Pediculati with part of the defini- 

 tion here given. The Heter'osomata were arranged together under this name and defined by Dumeril. The Pleetog- 

 nathi wore first defined by Cuvier; while the PharyngognitM a part only of Mailer's order of that name, was defined 

 by Gill, after the deduction of the SynentognatM. 



II. CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 



PlIAKYNGOGNATlll. 



Pomaeenlrii/if. 



Micbospathodoh cheybuetjs, Cuv. Val. V., 470, Microspathodon, Gthr. 



St. Croix, Dr. Griffith; St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma. 



Gltphidodon saxatiijs, Linn., Cuv. Val. V., 446, Gthr., Catal. B. M., iv., 35. 



St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma; St. Croix, Thos. Davidson, Dr. R. E. Griffith; New Providence, Dr. Wood. 



Pomacknteus LEtTCOSTlCTCS, Mi'ill. Troscli. in Schomburgk's Nat. Hist., Barbadoes, 074. Giinther Catal. B. 

 Mus. iv., 81. 



St. Croix, Capt. T. Davidson; St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma; New Providence, Dr. Wood. 



Oerridm. 



Gebebs c.iii.a, C. V., vi., 404. Giinther Cat. B. M. II., 340. 



St. Martins, Dr. R. E. van Rijgersma; St. Croix, Thos. Davidson, Dr. R. E. Griffith. 



Saarulii 1 . 



Soabus ouacamaia, Cuv. Val, XIV., 178. Pseudoscarus, Giinther Cat. Brit. Mus. iv., 233. 



St. Martins, .Dr. Rijgersma. 



Soabus ohloeis, Bloch Sclin., Pseudoscarus, Giinther Catal. iv., 227 



New Providence, Bahamas, Dr. II. C. Wood. 



ScAEUS, sanct^eobtjcis, Bloch., Pseudoscarus, Gtinther Catal. iv., 220. Scarus alternant C. V., xiv., 200. 



St. Croix, Dr. R. 10. Griffith. 



Soabus taeniopteetts, Desmarest, Cuv. Val. XIV., 195, Pseudoscarus Gthr. Catal., IV., 220. 



Santa, Cruz, R- E. Griffith, M. D. 



Scaruk diadema, Cuv. Val. XIV., 140. Pooy Rep. Cuba ii., p. 347. Guiehonot Catal. Scari Mus. Paris, Proc. 

 Cherbourg. 



This species, placed as a syiionyme of the last with question, by Giinther in the Catal. Brit. Mus. iv., p. 220, 

 is as distinct, from it as the allied species are from each other. A fresh specimen from Dr. Rijgersma enables me to 

 describe the colors of ibis very handsome lisli as follows : 



General color of anterior half of the body, crimson ; of the posterior, golden. All the scales with a red-orange 

 border. An orange band from mouth to orbit, margined by green above and below, the lower continued to opercular 

 lobe and round chin behind a, vvt\ band. Temple greenish; golden of posterior parts continued as a band to the base 

 of the peotoral. Caudal slightly rounded, the angles not prolonged, the superior and inferior margins green. Dorsal 

 and anal tins, with dirty green margins, yellow-edged within, and very narrow green basis with inner yellow margin. 

 Numerous transparent, dirty green spots on intermediate spaoe of anal and posterior two-thirds of dorsal. Six rows 

 of scales on the middle series of the cheek. 



When the specimens are bleached in spirits, the species is best distinguished from the P. taeniopterus by the 

 spotted tins, as well as the lack of dark lateral band, and six cheek scales. 



St. Martins, Rijgersma ; St. Croix, Davidson and Griffith. 



Scakus psittacus, Linn., Pseudoscarus, Giinther Catal 225. Scarus vetula, Bloch, Cuv. Val. XIV., 103. 



St;. Martins, Rijgersma; St. Croix Dr. Griffith. 



Scakus aueofbenatus, Cuv., Vol. XIV., 101. Gthr. Cat., iv., 212. 



St. Croix, Dr. Griffith; St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma. 



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