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Only the original type of this handsome species is known. It was 

 taken from the stomach of some large fish off the west coast of Florida 

 by Mr. Charles H. Bollman. Its resemblance to 8c. croicensis is quite 

 strong, but the coloration is notably different. 



109. SCARUS FLAVO-MARGINATUS. 



Scarus flavo-marginatus Cuv. & Val., xiv, 202, 1839 (Antilles). 



Pseudoscarus flavo-marginatus Guicheuot, Scarides, 30, 1665 (note on type). . 



Habitat. — West Indies. 



Etymology: Flavus, yellow; marginatus, margined. 

 We know nothing of this species except what is contained in the 

 scanty descriptions of Valenciennes and Guichenot. 



110. SCARUS CCERULEUS. 



(Blue Parrot Fish; Loro; Clamagore.) 



Novacula ccerulea (the Blueflsh) Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc., 1743, 18, tab. 18 



(Bahamas). 

 Loro Parra, Descr. Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat., 1787, 57, Lam. 27, f. 1. (Cuba). 

 Trompa Parra, 1. c., f. 2. 

 Coryphcena ccerulea Blocb, Auslandische Fiscbe, ii,120, taf. 176, 1786 (in part, after 



Catesby and a figure of Aubriet, altered from a figure by Plumier) ; Ginelin, 



Syst. Nat., 1788,1191 (copied). 

 Scarus cceruleus Blocb & Schneider, Systema Icbthyol., 1801, 288 (after Catesby, 



and Trompa of Parra); Cuv. &, Val.. xiv, 186, 1839 (St. Tbomas); Cuvier, 



Regue Animal, Ed. ii, 1829; Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 85 



(Havana ; Key West) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 137 (Key West) ; 



Jordan, 1. c, 1886, 48 (Havana). 

 Pseudoscarus cceruleus Gunther, iv, 1862, 227 (copied) ; Guicbenot, Scarides, Mus. 



Paris (Proc. Soc. Imp. Nat. Cherbourg), 1865, 24 (St. Thomas, San Domingo); 



Poey, Repertorio, i, 373, 1867; Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 348; Poey, Enumeratio, 



1875, 117 (Cuba); Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 33, 1876 (Bermuda). 

 Scarus loro Blocb & Schneider, Systema Icbthyol., 1801, 288 (after Loro of Parra). 

 f Scarus trilobatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1803, 21 (on a drawing by Plumier). 

 f Scarus holocyaneos Lac<Spede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1803, 45, on a copy by Aubriet of a 



drawing of Plumier ; the copy colored entirely blue in order to represent this 



species; the original drawing probably intended for Sparisoma chrysopterum ; 



the same copy by Aubriet, the original of Bloch's engraving of Scarus cceruleus. 

 Scarus obtusus Poey, Memofias Cuba, ii, 1860, 217 (Cuba). 

 Pseudoscarus obtusus Poey, Synopsis, 349 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 117. 

 Scarus nuchalis Poey, Memorias, ii, 1860, 220 (Cuba). 

 Pseudoscarus nuchalis Poey, Synopsis, 348; Poey, Enumeratio, 117. 

 Pseudoscarus chloris Gunther, iv, 1862, 227 (Jamaica; Excl. Syn.). 

 Pseudoscarus quadrispinosus Goode, Bull.^U. S. Nat. Mus., v., 34 (not Scarus quadri- 



8pinosus Cuv. & Val. ?). 



Habitat. — West Indies, north to Key West. 



Etymology: Cceruleus, blue. 



This species is common in the Havana markets. A single young 

 specimen was taken at Key West. Specimens from St. Thomas are in 

 the museum at Cambridge. 



No specimens of more than a foot in length were obtained by me, and 

 these show but slight traces of the fleshy hump on the snout, which is 

 said to be very conspicuous in the adult fish. They correspond fairly 



