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REVIEW OF THE LABROID FISHES. G81 



pectorals ; ventrals mostly red, their external border 

 bine; caudal with very salient angles; upper jaw 

 with red and blue edgings; snout moderate; 2 

 (rarely 3) lateral canines in upper jaw. General 

 color, dark sky-blue ; scales, brown-edged; eye with 

 blue spots above and behind ; a green band from the 

 angle of the mouth, bordered above and below by 



red. Teeth quite small Vetula, 106. 



bb. Upper jaw without canines; two and one-half series of scales on cheek. 



i. Third (partial) row of scales of the cheek of 3 or 4 scales* of the 

 upper row little larger than those of the second 

 row.* Caudal slightly rounded, its outer rays not 

 produced. 



,;'. Sides of body with two broad dark longitudinal shades; sides 

 of belly each with three sharply defined lines, each 

 on a row of scales, these stripes running from the 

 breast to beyond front of ventrals (these lines usually 

 becoming faint or even obsolete in old specimens). 

 k. Stripes on side of breast, if present, whitish. Color, dark red- 

 dish brown above, paler below; back dark ; sides 

 with two dark parallel stripes of the color of the 

 back, separated by paler interspaces, the upper one 

 extending backward from eye; snout above bluish 

 brown ; a narrow whitish streak running from head 

 along the middle line of belly; a faint dark spot on 

 base of pectoral ; caudal pale orange- red, the outer 

 rays somewhat barred with brown; dorsal orange, 

 edged with bluish ; other fins nearly plain. 



Croicensis, 107. 

 kk. Stripes on side of breast, if present, inky blue. Color bright 

 green, olivaceous above, paler below, the lower half 

 of the body becoming posteriorly more and more 

 yellow, and on the lower half of the caudal peduncle 

 bright light yellow, this color being brightest above 

 front of anal ; longitudinal shades on sides of body 

 bright crimson, separated on the head by a band of 

 green; no spot on base of pectoral; caudal fin green, 

 its lower half yellow ; dorsal, anal, and pectorals 

 green, at least at base ; ventrals yellow. 

 • Evermanni, 108. 



jj. [Sides of body without distinct, broad, darker stripes. Color, 

 brown ; no bands or lines upon body or head ; dorsal 

 spotted with violet and edged above and below with 

 yellow, like the caudal ; caudal without spots; a yel- 

 low line near the edge, and another along the base 

 of the dorsal.] (Guichenot.) 



Flavomarginatus, 109. 



ii. Third (partial) row of scales on the cheek of 1 or 2 scales only; 

 scales of the upper row much larger than those of the 

 second row ; caudal subtruncate, its outer rays more 

 or less produced, becoming much elongate with age ; 

 adult with a fleshy hump above the snout. Color 

 bright blue, the young more or less shaded with 

 reddish brown ; fins mostly blue. Size large. 



C(ERULEUS, 110. 



* These two characters not verified in S. flavomarginatus. 



