1602 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



(Named for Dr. Seth Eugene Meek,* assistant curator of zoology in the 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, in recognition of his work on Ameri- 

 can fishes.) 



2009. EMMEEKIA VENUSTA (Jenkins <fc Evermann), 



HeadSi; depth 3|; eye 5 in head. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 11; scales 3-27-8. 

 Body rather slender and compressed, its depth less than length of head ; 

 profile above eye nearly straight ; head long and slender; snout long; eye 

 small; caudal subtruncate; ventral short, its outer ray not produced, not 

 reaching to tips of pectorals; posterior canine very weak or wanting, 

 rarely present on both sides ; scales before dorsal small, in 10 or 12 series ; 

 scales on breast small; canines slender, |. Color creamy orange, the back 

 darker; many of the scales of back and upper part of sides each with a 

 vertically oblong dark-brown spot; one of these at upper part of base of 

 caudal more distinct than the others ; a narrow dark bar across base of pec- 

 toral; a horizontal dusky streak through eye and snout; fins plain, pale; 

 male with a vertical blue-black bar behind pectorals, much as in Iridio 

 semicinctus. Gulf of California; rather common. Length 6 inches. A 

 pretty little fish, known to us from numerous specimens collected at 

 Guaymas by Jenkins & Evermann, and also from specimens taken in the 

 Gulf of California by Dr. Gilbert, (renustus, pretty; from Venus.) 



Pseudojulis venustus, JENKINS & EVERMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, 145, Guaymas 

 (Type, No. 39631. Coll. Jenkins & Evermann) ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 649, 

 1890 ; EVERMANN & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 160, pi. 2, fig. 5. 



638. JULIDIO, Jordan & Evermann. 

 Julidio, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List, 413, 1896 (adustus). 



This genus agrees with Iridio in all respects except that the posterior 

 canine is wholly wanting. Body robust; snout pointed; scales before dor- 

 sal large. Canines |; dorsal. spines pungent. Caudal rounded. Species 

 American. (From Julis, iovXi$, a classical name of related species, from 

 iovj violet.) 



a. Depth 2J; head 3; ventrals rather long, reaching nearly to vent; the inner rays If in 



the outer; scales 2-27-8. Color brown, darker at bases of scales; pectorals pale; 



other fins black; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal with white margins, broadest at 



tip of caudal ; sometimes pale wavy lines on head. A DUSTUS, 2010. 



aa. Depth 3J ; head 3| ; ventrals short, the outer ray not nearly twice inner ; scales 2-25-8. 



Color olive; young with a silvery lateral streak; back with 4 or 5 indistinct 



broad dark cross bands, these forming blotches on the dorsal fin, one of these 



on the first 3 soft rays largest and quite black; angles of caudal pale; ventrals 



whitish, with a broad black outer margin. NOTOSPILUS, 2011. 



2010. JULIDIO ADUSTUS (Gilbert). 



Head 3f ; depth 2f (3 with caudal), 3 in young ; snout 3 ; eye 2 in snout. 

 D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales 27. Caudal peduncle If in length of head. 

 Four strong canines in lower j aw, 2 in the upper, directed very obliquely 



* The natural derivative from "Meek" is preoccupied in Paleontology. 



