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aa. Teeth blue or bluish-green. 



I. Upper jaw with canines ; caudal fin with angles much ex- 



serted, especially in the adult: soft dorsal and anal 

 ending in points ; two and one-half rows of scales on 

 cheeks. 

 m. Upper jaw usually with 1 posterior canine. Color bright 

 blue, the edges of the scales brownish; fins dark 

 brown, with green upon the external border of the 

 ventrals, which are long and pointed ; forehead with 

 a fleshy hump in the adult. 

 n. Tubes of the lateral line considerably branched. 



CCELKSTINUS, 111. 



nn. Tubes of the lateral line not branched. .Simplex, 112. 

 mm. [Upper jaw with from 3 to 6 posterior canines; jaws 

 very convex. Color green under pectoral, and along 

 the side and posterior part of the body; head, ante- 

 rior and upper part of the back and belly grayish 

 yellow ; dorsal and anal brown, spotted with green 

 along their bases ; pectorals and ventrals tinted with 

 green; caudal grayish yellow. Size large.] (Gui- 

 chenot) Pleianus, 113. 



II. Upper jaw without posterior canines ; teeth deep blue-green. 



Size large. 



o. Caudal deeply notched, the angles much produced in 

 the adult (the fin truncate or rounded in the young'); 

 body moderately elongate ; depth 2£ to 3 in length ; 

 cheeks with 2| rows of scales, those of the upper 

 row larger than those of the second ; one scale below 

 the second row. Color olive green, with more or 

 less ill-defined green markings on heatl ; lower parts 

 more or less reddish ; vertical fius brownish orange, 

 all edged with deep blue Guacamaia, 114. 



oo. Caudal rounded, the angles not produced ; body ro- 

 bust, the depth in adult 2J in length; cheeks with 

 two rows of scales, the lower of four, the upper of 

 five scales; lower limb of preopercle wholly naked. 

 Color light brownish, with some greenish shading 

 on sides and bluish green on caudal peduncle; fins 

 all bright blue; snout and forehead bluish ; orbits 

 surrounded by radiating dots and dashes»of green. 



Perrico, 115. 

 100. SCARUS FUNCTULATUS. 



Soar us punctulatvA Cuv. & Val., xiv, 1839, 195 (Martinique) ; Jordan & Swain, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 80 (Havana). 

 Pseudoscarus punotulatus Guichenot, Scaride's, Mus. Paris, 1865, 26 (Martinique). 

 Scarus diadema Cuv. & Val., 14, 1839 (Martinique) ; Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 1871, 



461 (St. Martin; St. Croix). 

 Pseudoscorus diadema Poey, Synopsis, 347 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 116 ; Guichenot, Scari- 



d6s, 28, 1865 (note on types). 

 P8eudoscarus tceniopterus Gunther, iv, 226 (Trinidad ; excellent description ; not of 



Desmarest). 

 Scarus tceniopterus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 47 (Havana). 



Habitat — West Indies. 

 Etymology: Punctulatus, dotted. 



