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eye, alternating with bronze. Just above middle of body, close behind 

 the pectorals, iii the males, is a deep indigo-blue cross band, which 

 nearly meets its fellow under the belly. Pectorals yellow, upper edge 

 of axil black; veutrals cream-color, each reaching beyond the posterior 

 edge of the blue cross-band ; other fins with horizontal, wavy, reddish 

 streaks; female without blue band, but with irregular ink-like spots on 

 numerous scales on the back and tail. Body oblong, compressed, rather 

 elevated at the nape. Lips thick, the lower with a frenum. Teeth in 

 about two series; three or four of the anterior in each jaw, canine-like. 

 Eye small. Dorsal spines slender, low, and flexible. Scales on breast 

 small. Head3i; depth 3. D IX, 12; A. Ill, 12; Lat. 1.28. Pacific 

 coast, north to Point Coucepciou, not rare southward. 



(Julis semicinctus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1859, 32; Giintker, iv, 161; Stein- 

 daclmer, Ichthyol. Beitriige, v, 151, 1876.) 



320. PSEUDOJULIS Bleeker. 



Seiloritas. 



(Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 412: type Julis girardi Bleeker.) 



This genus dififers from Platyglossus only in the lack of development 

 of the posterior canines, which are either wanting altogether or reduced 

 to a slight rudiment, (v''e5<5?, false; toyAoc-, Julis, an allied genus.) 



a. Dorsal spines very slender and flexible. (Oxyjulia* Gill.) 



95O. P. modestus (Grd.) Gthr. Scnorita; Peace Key. 



Olive-brown, the scales each with orange-brown in the centre; cream- 

 color below; sides of head with alternating horizontal streaks of bluish 

 and brown; a dark blue spot at base of pectoral above; membrane of 

 base of spinous dorsal largely indigo-blue; a large inky blotch at base 

 of caudal, covering one-third the fin; fins otherwise light brown. Body 

 elongate, UK- back not elevated, the head slender and sharp. A sin-ill 

 posterior canine sometimes present on one side, usually entirely wanting. 

 Fins low; ventrals short; caudal truncate; spines weak and slender; 

 pectorals reaching beyond tips of ventrals. Head 4; depth 4i. .D. 

 JX, 13; A. Ill, 13; Lat. 1. 28. L. 7 inches. Pacific coast; abundant 

 southward. A graceful little iish. 



(./? iodc*//N(;ir;iril, V . S. Pao. K'. U. Surv. Fish. 1858,163; Giintlu-r, iv, 1(58: Oxy- 

 jiilix /H.H/rW/,.v<;ill, I'm.-. A.-.-i.l. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 142.) 



Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 142: type Julia modest us Ayres. 



