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are even. They otherwise differ from the maigres 

 and the otolith! by the thickness and strength of their 

 second anal spine. 



One species abounds in the Mediterranean. 



The black Corvina, (Scicena Nigra, Gm.) Bl. 297. 



Of a silvery brown colour, with black ventral and 

 anal fins \ 



Johnius, BL, 



Are connected with the corvinae by an almost unin- 

 terrupted series, and have only the second anal prickle 

 weaker, and shorter than the soft rays which fol- 

 low it. 



They inhabit the Indian Seas ; their flesh is white 

 and delicate, and forms an important article of food 

 for the inhabitants 2 . 



They are found also at Senegal, and in America 3 . 



1 Add Corvina miles, C, or Telia katchelee, Russel, 117 ; C. 

 trispinosa, C, or Bodianus stellifer, Bl. 331. 1 ; C. oscula, Lesueur, 

 Sc. Nat. Phil. Nov. 1822 ; Bola citja, Buchan. Fishes of the Ganges, 

 pi. xii. f. 27 ; C.furcrcea, N., Lacep. 4. p. 424 ; and Bola cotton, 

 Buchan. 27. 24. ; Bodianus argyrolencus, Mitchill, Trans. New Y. 

 1.6. 3. 



2 The English of Bengal have given them the name of Whiting ; 

 John, maculatus, Bl., or Sarikulla, Russ. 123 ; J. cataleus, C, Russ. 

 116, or Bola chaptis, Buchan. x. 25. ; it is the Lutjan diacanthe, 

 Lacep. iv. 244 ; J. anei, BL, 357 ; J- karutta, BL ; J. pama, Cuv., 

 Buchan. xxxii. 26. 



3 ./. Senegalcnsis, Cuv., a new species ; /. humeralis, C, or 

 Labrus obliquus, Mitchill, which appears also to he the Perca undu- 



