Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1603 



forward. Scales not continued over median line of nape, 7 or 8 in front 

 of dorsal ; 7 or 8 series of scales on breast. No scaly sheaths at base of 

 dorsal or anal ; tubes of lateral line much branched, some of them occa- 

 sionally simple. Caudal rounded, the outer rays not at all produced, If 

 in head; ventrals rather long, reaching nearly to vent, the inner rays If 

 in the outer ; pectorals \\ in head ; dorsal spines pungent. Color in spirits, 

 everywhere warm brown, darker on 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 011 head, perhaps blue in life. Revillagigedo 

 Islands ; 3 specimens from Socorro Island, the longest 9 inches long, (admtus, 

 brown or scorched.) 



Pseudojiili* aditstiis, (JILBEKT, Proc. U. S. Nat. M us. 1890, 66, Socorro Island. (Type, 

 No. 44275. Coll. Albatrots.) 



2011. JIILIDIO XOTOSPILUS (Giinther). 



Head 3; depth 3|. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 11; eyes 6 in head; snout 3^; 

 scales 2-25-8. Body rather stout ; snout pointed ; profile not steep ; dorsal 

 spines pungent; first anal spine very slender, hardly distinguishable; 

 caudal fin rounded; ventral tins with the outer ray not produced, its 

 length not nearly twice that of the inner rays, its tip not reaching to tip 

 of pectoral; scales before dorsal in about 6 series. Coloration of adult, 

 blue green; bar across base of pectoral very bright; no dark spot behind 

 eye; corners and tip of caudal pale, as in young; each scale of posterior 

 part of body with a small sky-blue spot at tip ; edges of scales bluish, the 

 base olivaceous; axil blue, golden behind; breast and throat pale-salmon 

 color, with bluish streaks and shades ; cheek yellowish ; snout blue. Young 

 with blue spots more distinct, especially 1 behind eye. Adult with 4 

 dark shades on back extending on dorsal, the largest at front of soft dor- 

 sal ; blackish spot diffuse, not ocellated ; caudal with faint bluish cross 

 streaks on faint bronze ground color, the angles broadly whitish; anal 

 bronze with 3 bluish streaks, tip pale; ventrals dusky edged. Young 

 colored like adult, but brighter, a paler olive streak from mouth across 

 opercle above pectoral to base of caudal, this obsolete in adult; dorsal 

 unlike that of adult; first dorsal bronze with bluish cross streaks, the 

 large black blotch ocellated with blue and with a patch of bright yellow 

 before and behind it, interspaces between this and the two other smaller 

 black spots bright yellow also ; blue spots in young more distinct, espe- 

 cially 1 behind eye, which disappears with age. Length 6 inches. Pacific 

 Coast of Mexico; Mazatlan to Panama; generally common in rock-pools, 

 especially about Mazatlau, where our specimens were taken. (V&)TO$, 

 back; d7tiA.o$, spot.) 



Pseudojulis notospilus, GUNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, 2C, Panama ; GUNTHER, 

 Fish. Cent. Am., 447, 1869 ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 384 ; JORDAN, Cat. Fish. 

 N. Am. 1885, 99; JORDAN & HUGHES, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 66; JORDAN, Review 

 Labroid Fishes, 649, 1890 ; JORDAN, Fishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 480. 



