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This species is one of the most gorgeous of the parrot fishes, reaching 

 a length of nearly two feet. The specimens examined by us were sent 

 by Professor Poey to the museum at Cambridge. 



107. SCARUS CROICENCIS. 



(BULLON.) 



Callyodon Gronow, Museum Ichthyol., ii, 8, 1763 ; Gronow, Zoophylaceuni, 244, t. 7, 

 f. 4 (sine patria) . 



Scar us croicensis Bloch, Ichthyol., taf. 221, 1790 (St. Croix ; probably more than one 

 species included); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 938 (copied); 

 Jordan & Swaiu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 87 (Havana; Key West); 

 Jordan, 1. c, 137 (Key West); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 47 (Ha- 

 vana) ; Bean, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1888, 198 (Cozumel). 



Erychthys croicensis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class'n, Fishes, 1839, ii, 226 (name only). 



Scarus insulce-sanctce-crucis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, 285 (copied). 



tCalliodon lineatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, 312, pi. 62, f. 2 (after 

 Gronow) ; Gronow, Syst., ed. Gray, 1854, 84 (sine patria). 



Scarus alternans Cuv. & Val., iv, 1839, 200 (Martinique). 



Pseudoscarus sanctw-crucis Giinther, iv, 226, 1862 (Jamaica ; Trinidad ; Puerto Ca- 

 bello); Guichenot,Scarid6s, Mus. Paris, 1865,29 (Martinique) ; Poey, Synopsis, 

 1868, 350 (Cuba) ; Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 119. 



Scarus sanctce- cruris Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1870, 461 (St. Croix). 



Pseudoscarus Uneolatus Poey, Repertorio, ii, 239, 1868 (Cuba) ; Poey, Synopsis, 350 ; 

 Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 119. 



Habitat. — West Indian fauna, north to Key West. 



Etymology : Croicensis, living in St. Croix, where the species was dis- 

 covered. 



Several young specimens of this species were taken at Key West by 

 Dr. Jordan. In Havana it is rather common, and is known as Bullon. 

 Specimens are in the museum at Cambridge from Bermuda, Tortugas, 

 St. Thomas, and St. Croix. 



It seems never to reach a large size. Goode has suggested that it is 

 perhaps the young of Scarus vetula (=superbus Poey), but we are very 

 positive that this can not be the case. The two are very unlike in den- 

 tition, as well as in color. 



There is no warrant for the change of the original name croicensis 

 into sanctw-crucis j and we have as a matter of course restored the orig- 

 inal form of the word. 



The Calliodon lineatus seems to us, as suggested by Valenciennes, 

 to be probably this species. 



Poey recognizes Pseudoscarus Uneolatus with the three streaks along 

 the side of the breast, and P. sanctw-crucis, in which these markings are 

 obsolete. These stripes are present in all our specimens from Cuba and 

 Florida, but in a larger example from St. Lucia they are very faint or 

 obsolete. Their absence is probably a matter of age, not of specific dif- 

 ference 



108. SCARUS EVERMANNI. 

 Scarus evemanni Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 469 (off Tampa Bay). 

 Habitat — Gulf of Mexico in deep water. 

 Etymology : Earned for Barton Warren Evermann. 



