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Belon, who has described it under the name of glaucus, al- 

 though he has placed under the same name a figure which 

 belongs to the umbrina, assures us that there are found in 

 its stomach small crabs, prawns, scolopendra and fucus. It 

 comes in spring to deposit its eggs and its milt in the cal- 

 careous pebbles of the shore. Its flesh is less esteemed than 

 that of the umbrina barbata, and of the maigre, yet, never- 

 theless, it is often sold for the latter in the markets. There 

 are a great number of foreign species analogous to this 

 corvina. 



The Johnius of Bloch, is allied to corvina by a scarcely 

 interrupted series, and differs only in having the second anal 

 spine more weak and shorter than the soft rays which follow 

 it, a character in which they approximate a little to the 

 maigres. Accordingly Buchanan unites the species of those 

 three groups, which he took in the Ganges, in his genus bola. 



The Johnius forms a considerable portion of the aliment 

 which the sea and the rivers furnish to the inhabitants of 

 India, and as the flesh is whitish, light, and of but little 

 flavour, the English at Bengal call these fish whiting. The 

 species are tolerably numerous. Bola is the generic name in 

 Bengal. Along the coasts of Orixa and Coromandel, they 

 are designated by that of katalai, katele, or katchele, to which 

 some peculiar epithet is united for each species, and which is 

 also applied to corvinae and umbrinae. 



As we have already seen, the names of umbra and umbrina 

 are variously applied to the three principal scigenoi'des, which 

 has occasioned more than one mistake, and has caused to be 

 attributed to one of these fish what belonged to the other. 

 Cuvier restrains the term umbrina to the sciana barbata and 

 its foreign analogues, that is, to fishes which to the characters 

 common to these sciaenoides with double dorsals, join a small 

 barbie attached under the symphysis of the lower jaw. 



The PogonI/E are in some sort umbrime, which, instead 



