1G02 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



(Named for Dr. Seth Eugene Meek,* assistant curator of zoology in the 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, in recognition of his work on Ameri- 

 can fishes.) 



•2009. EMMEEKIA VENUSTA (Jenkins & Evermann), 



HeadSi; depth 3^; eye 5 in head. D. IX,11; A. Ill, 11; scales 3-27-8. 

 Body rather slender and compressed, its depth less than length of head ; 

 profile above eye nearly straight; head long and slender; snontlong; eye 

 small; caudal subtruncate; ventral short, its outer ray not produced, not 

 reaching to tips of pectorals; posterior canine very weak or wanting, 

 rarely present on both sides; scales before dorsal small, in 10 or 12 series; 

 scales on breast small; canines slender, \. Color creamy orange, the back 

 darker; many of the scales of back and upper part of sides each vrith a 

 vertically oblong dark-brown spot; one of these at upper part of base of 

 caudal more distinct than the others ; a narrow dark bar across base of pec- 

 toral; a horizontal duskj' streak through eye and snout; fins plain, pale; 

 male with a vertical blue-black bar behind pectorals, much as in Iridio 

 aemicinctus. Gulf of California; rather common. Length 6 inches. A 

 pretty little fish, known to us from numerous specimens collected at 

 Guaymas by Jenkins & Evermann, and also from specimens taken in the 

 Gulf of California by Dr. Gilbert, (venustus, pretty; from Venus.) 



Pseudojulis venustus, Jenkins & Eveemann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, 145, Guaymas 

 (Type, No. 39631. Coll. Jenkins & Evermann) ; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, C49. 

 1890 ; Eveemann &. Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 160, pi. 2, fig. 5. 



638. JULIDIO, .Jordan A Evermann. 



Jwitdio, JoEliAN & EvERJiAN.v, CLeck-List, 413, 189G (adustus). 



This genus agrees with Iridio in all respects except that the posterior 

 canine is wholly wanting. Body robust; snout pointed; scales before dor- 

 sal large. Canines f; dorsal spines pungent. Caudal rounded. Species 

 American. (From Julis, iovXic,, a classical name of related species, from 

 iov, violet.) 



a. Depth 1\; head 3; ventrals rather long, reaching nearly to vent; the inner rays 1 j in 

 the outer; scales 2-27-8. Color brown, darker at bases of scales; pectorals pale; 

 other fins black; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal with white margins, broadest at 

 tip of caudal ; sometimes pale wavy lines on head. A dustus, 2010. 



aa. Depth 3 J ; head 3 J ; ventrals short, the outer ray not nearly twice inner ; scales 2-25-8. 

 Color olive; young with a silvery lateral streak; back with 4 or 5 indistinct 

 broad dark cross bands, these forming blotches on the dorsal fin, one of these 

 on the first 3 soft rays largest and quite black; angles of caudal pale; ventrals 

 whitish, with a broad black outer margin. notospilus, 2011. 



2010. JULIDIO ADUSTUS (Gilbert). 



Head 34 ; depth 2| (3 J with caudal), 3 in young ; snout 3 ; eye 21 in snout. 

 D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 27. Caudal peduncle If in length of head. 

 Four strong canines in lower jaw, 2 in the upper, directed very obliquely 



* The natural derivative from "Meek" is preoccupied in Palfcontology. 



