Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1603 



forward. Scales not continued over median line of nape, 7 or 8 in front 

 of dorsal ; 7 or 8 series of scales on breast. No scaly sheaths at base of 

 doi'sal or anal; tnbes of lateral line mnch branched, some of them occa- 

 sionally simple. Caudal rounded, the outer rays not at all produced. If 

 in head; ventrals rather long, reaching nearly to vent, the inner rays If 

 iu the outer ; pectorals If in head ; dorsal spines pungent. Color in spirits, 

 everywhere warm brown, darker on the bases of the scales; pectorals 

 lighter; other fins black, the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal, with a narrow 

 white margin broader at tips of outer caudal rays. In one specimen there 

 are traces of wavy lines on head, perhaps blue in life. Revillagigedo 

 Islands ; 3 specimens from Socorro Island, the longest 9 inches long, {adustus, 

 brown or scorched.) 



Pseudojulis adustus. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Kat. Mu3. 1890, 66, Socorro Island. (Type, 

 No. 44275. Coll. Albatroxs.) 



2011, JULIDIO XOTOSPILUS (Cxiinther). 



Head Si; depth SI. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 11; eyes 6 in head; snout 3i; 

 scales 2-25-8. Body rather stout ; snout pointed ; jirofile not steep ; dorsal 

 spines pungent; first anal spine very slender, hardly distinguishable; 

 caudal fin rounded; ventral fins with the outer ray not produced, its 

 length not nearly twice that of the inner rays, its tip not reaching to tip 

 of pectoral; scales before dorsal in about 6 series. Coloration of adult, 

 blue green; bar across base of pectoral very bright; no dark spot behind 

 eye; corners and tip of caudal pale, as in young; each scale of posterior 

 part of body with a small sky-blue spot at tip; edges of scales bluish, the 

 base olivaceous; axil blue, golden behind; breast and throat pale-salmon 

 color, with bluish streaks and shades ; cheek yellowish ; snout blue. Young 

 with blue spots more distinct, especially 1 behind eye. Adult with 4 

 dark shades on back extending on dorsal, the largest at front of soft dor- 

 sal; blackish spot diffuse, not ocellated; caiidal with faint bluish cross 

 streaks on faint bronze ground color, the angles broadly whitish; anal 

 bronze with 3 bluish streaks, tip pale; ventrals dusky edged. Young 

 colored like adult, but Ijrighter, a paler olive streak from mouth across 

 opercle above pectoral to base of caudal, this obsolete in adult; dorsal 

 unlike that of adult; first dorsal bronze with bluish cross streaks, the 

 large black blotch ocellated with blue and with a patch of bright yellow 

 before and behind it, interspaces between this and the two other smaller 

 black spots bright yellow also; l>lue spots in young more distinct, espe- 

 cially 1 behind eye, which disappears with age. Length G inches. Pacific 

 Coast of Mexico; Mazatlan to Panama; generallj- common in rock-pools, 

 especially about Mazatlan, where our specimens were taken, {v&^roi, 

 back; dniXo^, spot.) 



Pseudopilis noiospilus, GiJNTHEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, 20, Panama ; GiJNTHER, 

 Fish. Cent. Am., 447, 1869 ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 384 ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. 

 N. Am. 1885,99; Jordan & Hughes, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mua. 1886,66; Jordan, Review 

 Labroid Fishea, 649, 1890; Jordan, Fishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 480. 



