ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE LESSER ANTILLES. 



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Char, specif., scales t J— 28— 6 ; radii I). XL -8 ; A. III. 8., p. 12. 

 the vc.nl, ; the pectorals extend three-quarters the same dis- 

 tance ; caudal truncate. One large scale between pectoral 

 and ventral ; scales of opercles, very large; preopercular 

 limbs, naked ; cheek with a serins of 1,1 nee scales, which are .f^Sv 

 caducous. 



General form like that of Julis, elongate; depth into 

 total length, lour and a, hall' times; length el' head into 

 the same, three and one-third times. The extremity of the 

 maxillary bone in its sheath docs not quite reaoh the ante- 

 rior line of the orbit. The free teeth are closely appressed 

 to the solid mass beneath and are included in two alterna- 

 ting rows anteriorly. 



Pho ventrals are short, extending half-way to 



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Fig. 1. Cryptotomus roseus, Cope. 



They all project in the line of the front and of the mandible, the superior overlapping a, little the inferior. The 

 diameter of the eye enters the length of the head including teeth, live times; the muzzle 1 4-5 times, and the inter- 

 orbital space '75 of a time. The front is Hal,, and the muzzle sufficiently so to produce a, slight canthus rostralis. 

 Its profile descends gradually straight to the teeth. 



The color is rosy purple, most purple on the cheeks ; below, fading into light orange. Scales of the superior row, 

 brown bordered. Caudal fin, yellow. 

 St. Martins, I). R. E. van Rijgersma. 



Labridm. 

 CosSYPHUS BUFUS, Linn , Giinth., ca.tal. I!. M. IV., 108, G. bodianus, Cuv. Val. XII., p. 103. 

 New Providence, II. C. Wood, M. D. St, Croix, Dr. R. E. Griffith. 

 Clepticus genizabra, Cuv. Val. XIII, 267. St. Croix, Dr. Griffith. 



Platyglossits BiviTTATUS, Bloch., Giinth., Catal IV., 164. P. psittaculus, C. V. XIII., 887. 

 St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma. 



PlATYGLOSSUS ivi'krnasaus, I'oey, Mem. Cuba II., 421. Giinth. 1. c, IV., 104. 

 St. Martins, Dr. Rijgersma. 



PLATYGLOSSUS CBOTAPHU8, Cuv. Val. XII., 895. Oth. 1. C, 163. 



