190 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYG1I. 



Lichia, Cuv., 



Have, besides the detached prickles of the back, and 

 two others before the anal, the body compressed, and 

 the tail without lateral keels. In front of the prickles 

 of the back is one inclined forward. 



The Mediterranean contains three species, already 

 well described by Rondelet, and all good eating. 



The Lichia proper, or Vadigo, (Scomber amia, L.) Rondel. 



254. Amia, Sal v. 121. 



Has a lateral line bent like the letter S ; a large species 

 which attains more than four feet in length, and some- 

 times weighs a hundred pounds. 



The Derbio, Rond. 252. (Sc. glaucus, L.) 



With the lateral line nearly straight ; the anal and the 

 second dorsal marked with a black spot in front; teeth 

 short and even. 



L. sinuosa, Cuv. 



The Liche s'mueuse of Rondelet, 255. The blue of the 

 back divided from the silvery of the belly by a zigzag 

 line, hooked teeth all in one row 1 . 



M. de Lacepede separates from Lichia, under the 

 ill chosen appellation of Scomberoides, those species 

 in which the latter rays of the second dorsal and anal 

 are divided into spurious fins, as in the scombri 

 proper 2 . 



1 Add. Scomb. calcar, Bl. 336. f. 2. 



1 Scomber. Forsteri, Bl. Schn., or Scomberdide commer somen, 



