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JULIS AZORENSIS, new species. 



Head, 3^ (without teeth); depth, 4f; D. IX, 12, i; A. Ill, 12; 

 P. II, 12; V. I, 5; scales, 60 + 10 in lateral line to caudal base, and 

 8 more on latter; 4 scales above lateral hne to soft dorsal origin; 20 

 below to spinous anal origin; 16 predorsal scales; head width, 2h its 

 length; snout, Sf; eye, 5^; maxilliary, 41-; interorbital, 5; second 

 dorsal spine, 4§; first dorsal ray, 2f ; second anal ray, 2^; caudal, 

 1§; pectoral, Ih; ventral, 2^. 



Body much elongated, weU compressed, deepest at hind opercle 

 edge and tapering graduall}^ back to caudal, edges convex. Caudal 

 peduncle strongly compressed, about long as deep and least depth 

 about 2i in head. 



Head elongately rhomboid, well compressed, sides slightly flat- 

 tened and about evenl}' approximate above and below. Snout 

 conic, upper profile slightly concave in front; width, 1^ its length. 

 Eve rounded, advanced, with hind edge little before center in head 



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Fig. 2.— Julis azorensis. 



length. Mouth moderate, gape extending about halfway to eye; 

 jaws and teeth about even in front. MaxiUary about reaches oppo 

 site front nostril. Lips moderately wide, fleshy. Teeth biserial, 

 outer row much larger, and four canines in front of each jaw, of which 

 median pair of each much larger. Tongue small, elongate, end free 

 and rounded. Nostrils small, near one another; front one about half 

 an eye-diameter before eye. Interorbital convex. Least width 

 of preorbital about seven-eighths of eye. Hind preopercle edge 

 entire. 



GiU-opening forward about opposite hind pupil edge. Rakei-s 8 + 11 

 short flexible points, spinescent, about one-fourth of filaments, and 

 latter two-fifths of eye. Isthmus triangular, with median keel. 



Scales thin, in even longitudinal rows, elongate, wefl exposed, 

 cycloid. Head naked. Scales smaller on predorsal, breast, and 

 caudal base. Scales with about 18 basal radii and twice as many 

 apical obscurely, circuH very fine. Lateral line complete, high along 



