168 LABRID.E. 



30. PSEUDOJULIS. 



Pseudojulis, Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 412. 



Body compressed, slender, covered with scales of moderate size 

 (L. lat. less than 30) ; head naked ; lateral line not inten-upted ; 

 scales on the thorax smaller than those of the body. No posterior 

 canine tooth ; anterior teeth conical. Dorsal spines nine. 



East Indian Archipelago. Coasts of Cahfornia. 



1. Fseudojulis girardi. 



Julis girardi, Bleek. Bali, iii. p. 168. 



Pseudojulis girardi, Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 412, and Atllchth. 

 p. 127. tab. 33. fig. 3. 



D. ^. A. l^. L. lat. 27. 



The height of the body is contained five times in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and a third or four times and a 

 fourth. Caudal rounded; dorsal spines pungent. Greenish-rose- 

 coloured : snout and forehead amber-brown ; a broad brownish band 

 from the forehead to the operculum and from thence to the caudal ; 

 pectoral with a blackish spot superiorly in the axil; fins rose- 

 coloured. (Bl.) 



Coast of Boleling. 



2. Pseudojulis modestus. 



Julis modestus, Girard m U. S. Padf. R. R. Exped. Fishes, p. 168 ; 

 Gill in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1862, p. 142. 



D. ^*. A. i L. lat. 28, 



The height of the body is contained five times and two-thirds in 

 the total length, the length of the head four times and a half. Dorsal 

 spines slender, slightly flexible ; caudal tin subtruncated. Brownish- 

 olive ; a pair of dark spots at the root of the caudal, and a blackish 

 spot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 



Coasts of California, 



a. Fine specimen. San Diego. Presented by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 



31, NOVACULAf. 



Xjrrichthys, sp., Cur. (^ Val. xiv. p. 33. 

 Novacula, Ciw. ^ Val. xiv. p. 64. 



Novacula, sp., Steindachner in Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gescllsch. Wien, 

 1861, p. 133. 



* Nine dorsal spines are very distinct. 



t 1. Xyrichthys vitta, Cuv. 8f Val. xiv. p. (A.—Hah. ? 



2. Novacula tessellata, Cuv. He Val. xiv. p. 74. — Mauritius. 



3. immaculata, Ciu\ Sf Vol. xiv, p. 75.- Mauritius. 



