128 PISCES. 



article of food; their flesh is white and light.(l) They are also met 

 with in Senegal,(2) and in America.(3) 



Umbrina, Cuv. 



Distinguished from other Sciaense by a cirrus under the symphy- 

 sis of the lower jaw. 



A beautiful species is taken in the Mediterranean, Scieena 

 cirrhosa, L. ; Bl. 300, obliquely streaked with steel-colour on a 

 gold ground. It is a large and good fish, which has ten short 

 casca and a large natatory bladder furnished with some lateral, 

 rounded sinuses. (4) 

 The LoNCHURUs, Bl., merely appears to differ from the Umbrinae 

 in a pointed caudal and two cirri on the symphysis. (5) The 



PoGONiAs, Lacep. 

 Resembles an Umbrina, but instead of a single cirrus beneath the 

 jaw, there are several. 



One of them is found in America, Pog. fascS, Lascep., II, 

 xvi,(5) of a silver colour, when young marked with vertical 

 brown bands, which becomes as large as the Sc. umbrae and like 

 it, has branched appendages to the natatory bladder.(6) This 

 fish produces a sound still more remarkable than any of the 

 other Scienoides, which has been compared to that of several 

 drums. Its pharyngeal bones are furnished with large teeth en 

 pave.(7) 



(1) The English of Bengal call it the Whiting. John, maculatus, BL, or sari- 

 kulla, Riiss., 123; /. cataleus, Cuv., Russ., 116, or Bola chaptis, Buchan. X, 25. 

 It is the Lutjan diacanthe, Lacep. IV, 244; /. anei, Bl. 357; J. karuita, Bl.; J. 

 pama, Cuv., Buchan, XXXII, 26. 



(2) /. senegalensis, Cuv. , spec. nov. 



(3) /. humtralis-, Cuv-, or Labrus obliquus, Mitchill, which also appears to be the 

 Perca undulata, L.; /. Xanthurus, or Leiostome, queue jaune, Lacep. IV, x, 1; 

 /. saxatilis, BL, Schn. 



(4) The Cheilodiptere cyanoptere, Lacep. Ill, xvi, 3, is merely a rudely drawn 

 Umbrina. Add: Omb. Russelii, Cuv., Russel., H8; Sc. nebulosa, Mitch., Ill, 5, 

 which is also the Perca albumus, L., Catesb., XII, 2; Kingfish or Whiting of the 

 United States; the Pogonathe dorc, Lacep., V, 122, also belongs to this sub- 

 genus. 



(5) Lonchurus barbatus, B1.360. 



(6) It is the Labrus grunniens, Mitch., Ill, 3; the Scisenafusca ycaHgigas, Id., 

 appear to be the same species at a more advanced age, and every thing proves it 

 to be also the Labrus chromis, L.; finally, the Pogonathe courbinc, Lacep. V, 121, 

 is the same. Add: Ombrina Foumieri, Desmar., Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat; its cin-i 

 are almost imperceptible. 



(7) They are figured by Ant. de Jussieu, M^m. de I'Ac. des Sc, 1723, pi. xi. 



