Jordan ajid Evcrmann. — Fishes of North Avierica. 1601 



636. OXYJULIS, Gill. 

 (Sexoritas.) 



Oxyjulis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 330 (modestus). 



Body very slender; the snout sharp; canines small, 2 above, 4 below; 

 posterior canine small, or represented by a slight rudiment. Dorsal spines 

 very slender and flexible, not all pungent, this character distinguishing the 

 genus from Jitlidio. One sitecies, ranging farther northward than any other 

 of the JnJidina. {oQix;, sharp; Julia.) 



200S. OXYJULIS CALIFORMCUS (Giiuther). 

 (Senorita.) 



Head 4; depth 4^. D. IX, 13; A. Ill, 13; scales 28. Body very slender, 

 strongly compressed; the head slender, with sharp snout ; snout 3 in head ; 

 eye 5; anterior canines small, |, the upper larger and divergent; posterior 

 canine extremely weak or wanting, rarely present on both sides; scales 

 before dorsal much reduced, in 10 or 12 rows, those on ])reast considerably 

 smaller than those on sides; dorsal spines slender and flexible, not at all 

 pungent ; caudal truncate ; yen trals short, the first ray not twice the length 

 of the inner ray. Color olive brown; centers of scales orange brown; 

 belly cream color; sides of head with alternate streaks of brown aud 

 bluish ; a large inky blue-black blotch at base of caudal, covering ^ of fin ; 

 membrane of base of spinous dorsal largely indigo blue;'fins otherwise 

 pale ; lower pharyngeals essentially as in Iridio, the large teeth more acute. 

 Length 7 inches. Coast of southern California; common about rocks and 

 kelp from Monterey to Guadalupe Island ; one specimen taken at Sausalito, 

 San Francisco Bay. A pretty little fish, common in the kelp and among 

 rocks. 



Jiilis modestus, Giraed, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila., vii, 1854, 151, San Diego, Monterey, San 

 Miguel; GiEAHD, U. S. Pac. E. K. Sur., Fish., 163, 1858 ; Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1S62, 142 ; not JuUs modestus, Bleeker. 



Ilalichoeres californicus, GOnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, Vol. \nii, 1861, 386, name, 

 only ; substitute for Julis modestus, preoccupied. 



PseudojuUs modestus, Gunther, Cat., iv, 168, 1862; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1880, 455 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 10 ; Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 225 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 604, 1883; Jordan, Cat. 

 Fish. N. A'., 99, 1885. 



Oxyjulis modestus. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 331. 



Oxyjulis californicus, Jordan & Hughes, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 65. 



PseudojuUs californicus, Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 650, 1890. 



637. EMM EEKI A, Jordan & Evermann. 



Emmeekia,SoRiiA^ Sc Evekmann, Check-List, 413, 1896 (venustus). 



This genus differs from Pseiidojulls only in the presence of 4 canines in 

 front of each jaw instead of 2; posterior canine wanting or represented 

 by a slight rudiment; dorsal spines slender, but somewhat pungent. 



