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eye, alteruating' with bronze. Just above middle of body, close behind 
the pectorals, in the males, is a deep indigo-blue cross band, which 
nearly meets its fellow under the belly. Pectorals yellow, upiier 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 baud, 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. nead3|t; depth 3 J. D IX, 12; A. Ill, 12; Lat. 1. 28. Pacific 
coast, north to Point Concepcion, not rare southward. 
{JuJis scmicinctus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1859, 32; Gunther, iv, 161; Stein- 
dachuer, Ichthyol. Beitriige, v, 151, 1876.) 
320.— PSEUBOJIILIS Bleeker. 
Senoritas. 
(Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 412: type Julis girardi Bleeker.) 
This genus diflers from Flatyglossus only in the lack of development 
of the posterior canines, which are either wanting altogether or reduced 
to a slight rudiment. false; couXo^, Julis, an allied genus.) 
a. Dorsal spines very slender and flexible. ( OxyjuUs * Gill. ) 
950. P. hboOcsSms (Grd.) Gthr. — Senorita; Pesce Ecy. . 
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, the back not elevated, the head slender and sharf>. A small 
posterior cauiue sometimes present on one side, usually entirely wanting. 
Pius low; veutrals short; caudal truncate; spines weak and slender; 
pectorals reaching beyond tips of veutrals. Head 4; depth 4.1. D. 
IX, 13; A. Ill, 13; Lat. 1. 28. L. 7 inches. Pacific coast; abundant 
southward. A graceful little fish. 
(Julis modest us G'lvavd, U. S. Pac. R. R. Siirv. Fish. 1858, 163; Gunther, iv, 168: Oxy- 
jidis modestusGiU, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 142.) 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 142: type Julis modestus Ayres. 
