Jordan and Evcrmayin. — Fishes of A^orth America. 1605 



PseudojuKs inornattis, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 67, west coast of Mexico, at 

 Albatross Station 2829, lat. 22° 52' N., long. 109° 55' W., in 31 fathoms (Type, No. 

 44273) ; JoBDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 650, 1890. 



2013. PSEUDOJIILIS MELANOTIS, Gilbert. 



Head 3 (3| in total length) ; deptli 4 (4f in total length). D. IX, 12; A. 

 Ill, 12; scales 26. Body rather slender; snout 3f in head; eye 4|^, equal- 

 ing length of maxillary. Two anterior canines in each jaw; posterior 

 canines not developed. Dorsal spines flexible, but pungent, the soft rays 

 2j^ in head; caudal rounded, the outer rays not at all produced; pectorals 

 and v(^ntrals short, the outer ventral rays not produced, not reaching 

 vent ; pectorals 1| in head. .Scales not crossing median line of nape, nnxch 

 reduced on its anterior portion, in 8 oblique rows; scales on breast small, 

 in 9 rows; no scaly sheaths to fins. Color in spirits, light olivaceous; the 

 liack and upper part of sides with 7 broad, dusky crossbars; the light 

 interspaces less than ^ their width; these bars are distinct along dorsal 

 outline, but are not continued on the dorsal lin ; they become partly inter- 

 rupted along dorsal portion of lateral line anteriorly, to become most 

 prominent along middle of sides ; th(^ first bar is on the nape, the second 

 under anterior dorsal spines; a dusky streak from eye forward to snout, 

 and another backward toward opercular angle; opercular flap with a 

 jet-black spot, widely margined posteriorly with white; a round black 

 spot at base of caudal, above the median rays; a dusky spot on each side 

 above vent, in front of which are 2 short parallel silvery lines running 

 obliquely downward and forward; faint traces of about 4 other silvery 

 lines in front of these and running parallel with them; a small jet black 

 spot on membrane between first and second dorsal spines; fins otherwise 

 translucent, unmarked. Gulf of California. Known from 1 examiile 24 

 iucheslong, dredged by the J/&rt/rt>ss. (Gilbert.) (/<f'Aaj, black; ouj, ear.) 



Pneudojulis melanotis, Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 67, Gulf of California, at 

 Albatross Station 2825, lat. 24° 22' 15" N., long. 110° 19' 15" W., in 7 fathoms (Type, 

 No. 44274) ; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 650, 1890. 



640. CHLORICHTHYS, Swainson. 



Gklorichthys, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class. Fishes, u, 232, 1839 (Ufasciahis, etc.). 

 Chlorichthys, Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 651, 1890 (restricted to hifasciatus, etc.). 



Body oblong or elongate, moderately compressed, covered with large 

 scales; lateral line continuous; a slight sheath of scales along base of dor- 

 sal; no posterior canine; anterior canines |; dorsal spines always 8, 

 usually slender; anal spines 3, the third slender, like a soft ray. Head 

 naked ; lower pharyngeals essentially as in Halichocres and Iridio. Species 

 all American, so far as known, distinguished from the very closely related 

 Old World genus, Thalassoma Swainson {=JuUs, Giinther ; not of Cuvier) by 

 the presence of 3 anal spines instead of 2. (^Aca/adj, green; ix^vi, fish.) 



a. Caudal fin slightly lunate in the adult, truncate in the young. 



h. Body bicolor, the upper half blackish, the lower pale; body slender, the depth 

 about 4 in length ; ventrals shorter than pectorals, not filamentous ; upper half 

 ol body dark purplish, the lower half abruptly rosy, the dark color of back 



