154 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGI1. 



Umbrina, Cuv. 



Are distinguished from the other sciaenae, by a barbie 

 which they have under the symphysis of the lower 

 jaw. 



There is a fine species in the Mediterranean, Scicena 

 cirrhosa, L. Bl. 300, striped obliquely, with a steel 

 colour on a golden ground. It is a large and good 

 fish, and is found occasionally in the Bay of Biscay. 



It has ten short ccecums, and a large air-bladder 

 furnished with rounded lateral sinuses \ 



The Lonchuri, Bl., 



Appear to differ from the umbrinae only by a pointed 

 caudal fin, and two barbies at the symphysis 2 . 



Pogonias, Lacep., 



Resemble the umbrinae, but instead of one single 

 barbel under the jaw, they have several. 



America produces one (Pogonias fasce, Lacep. ii. 

 xvi. (2.) of a silvery hue, which has, when young, 

 vertical brown bands, and attains the size of our 



lata, Lin. ; J. Xanthurus, or Leiostome queue jaune, Lacep. xiv. 10. 1 ; 

 /. saxatilis, Bl., Schn. 



1 The Cheilodiptere cyanoptere, Lacep. iii. 16. 3. is nothing but 

 an umbrina rudely drawn ; add. Omb. Russelii. C, Russel, cxviii. ; 

 Sc. nebulosa, Mitchill, iii. 5. which is also the perca alburnus, L., 

 Catesb. xii. 2. ; Kingfisch, or Whiting of the Anglo-Americans ; 

 the Pogonathe dore, Lacep. v. 12. 2. belongs also to this sub- 

 genus. 



I. ominous harbaltis, Bl. 359. 



