6Q NEW FISHES FROM PACIFIC COAST GILBERT. 



20. Pseudojulis adustus sp. uov. 



Color ill spirits : Everywhere warm brown, darker ou 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. 



Head 3 in length ; depth 2§. Caudal peduncle If in length of head; 

 snout 3. Eye 2^ in snout. Four canines in lower jaw, two in the 

 upper, directed very obliquely forwards. 



Scales not continued over median line of nape, seven or eight in 

 front of dorsal. Seven or eight series of scales on breast. No scaly 

 sheaths at bases of dorsal or anal. 



Caudal rounded, the outer rays not at all produced. If in head. 

 Ventrals rather long, reaching nearly to vent, the inner rays 1§ in the 

 outer. Pectorals If in head. 



D. IX, 13; A. Ill, 12. Lat. 1. 27. Dorsal spines pungent. 



Three specimens from Socorro Island, the longest 9 inches long. 



21. Pseudojulis melanotis sp. uov. 



Color in spirits : Light olivaceous, the back and upper part of sides 

 with seven broad dusky cross-bars; the light interspaces less than half 

 their width; these bars are distinct along dorsal outline, but are not 

 continued on the dorsal fin; they become partly interrupted along- 

 dorsal portion of lateral line anteriorly, to become most prominent 

 along middle of sides. The first bar is on the nape, the second under 

 anterior dorsal spines. A dusky streak from eye forwards to snout, 

 and another backwards towards 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 two short parallel silvery 

 lines running obliquely downwards and forwards; faint traces of about 

 four 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. 



Body rather slender, depth 4§ in length ; head 3f. Snout 3| in head; 

 eye 4^, equaling length of maxillary. Two anterior canines in each jaw. 

 Posterior canines not developed. 



Dorsal spines flexible, but. pungent, the soft rays 2^ in head. Caudal 

 rounded, the outer rays not at all produced. Pectorals and ventrals 

 short, the outer ventral rays not i)roduced, not reaching vent. Pector- 

 als 1§ in head. 



D. IX, 12 ; A. Ill, 12. Lat. line 26. 



Scales not crossing median line of nape, much reduced on its anterior 

 portion, in eight oblique rows. Scales ou breast small, in nine rows. 

 No scaly sheaths to fins. 



A single specimen, 2f inches long, from Station 2825. 



