42() REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [78] 
We find ourselves unable to follow Bleeker in using the name Sciena 
for the group usually called Umbrina, for reasons which may be again 
briefly stated. Sciena was originally (Artedi, 1738; Linnéus, 1758) 
founded on the typical species of the two modern genera Umbrina and 
Corvina. In 1817, Umbrina was set off from this group and Sciena was 
made to apply to the group later called Corvina, a third species 
(aquila) being added to Sciena. Later (1829) Corvina was separated 
by Cuvier. This gave Umbrina, Corvina, and Scicna, the latter name 
then standing for aquila. In 1862, Bleeker proposed to use Scicena for 
the type of Umbrina, because in enumerating his species of Scicena, Ar- 
tedi had made the Umbrina ‘No. 1” and the Corvina ‘No. 2.” This 
is, however, a matter of no significance. In our view but one arrange- 
ment of these names is allowable. Umbrina must stand, Sciena must 
take the place of Corvina, and the third species (aquila) must take a 
new name—Pseudosciena Bleeker. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF UMBRINA. 
a. Dorsal rays X-I, 22 to 24. 
b. Snout moderate, 34 in head; stripes on body yellowish, bordered with steel blue; 
preopercle with its bony margin distinctly serrate, the teeth at the angle 
broad and flattish. Body rather deep, the back elevated, the dorsal out- 
line regularly rounded, highest at first dorsal spines; profile steep ; snout 
low, bluntish, 34 in head ; eye small, 14% in snout, 1} in interorbital area, 
* about 54in head; mouth moderate, inferior ; maxillary reaching front of 
eye, 3¢ in head; preorbital one-third broader than eye; teeth villiform, 
in broad bands, the outer above little enlarged; lower pharyngeal teeth 
stout, conical, the inner posterior series slender. Spinous dorsal high 
the third spine 14 in head; soft dorsal scaleless; second anal spine 
small, 12 in soft rays, 2} in head; pectorals little shorter than ventrals, 
which are 1? in head; caudal slightly lunate, the upper lobe the longer. 
Color olivaceous, silvery below ; upper parts with many wavy lines, yel- 
lowish in color, and each bordered on each side by a distinct streak of 
steel blue; the lines partly following the rows of scales, running nearly 
straight upward and backwards at the shoulders, more nearly horizontal, 
more irregular and more or less broken posteriorly ; free membrane of 
opercle jet black within and without; gill cavity pale. Head 3$in length; 
depth 3} to 34. D. X-I, 22 to 24; A. II, 7; scales 9-51 (pores)-12; about 
65. transverse series of scales 4... . 625-2 < secceweenen sannge CrrRoSA, 87. 
bb. [Snout very short, 44 in head; stripes on body dusky. Body somewhat elon- 
- gate; the ventral outline straightish, dorsal outline elevated and much 
convex ; profile steep and convex, slightly depressed over the eyes; snout 
bluntish, 44 in head; eye 6 in head, about equal to the broad preorbital ; 
mouth subinferior, horizontal; maxillary reaching past middle of eye, 
34 in head; barbel very short; dorsal spines rather strong, the longest 
2} in head; anterior dorsal rays highest; base of membrane scaly ; cau- 
dal slightly lunate ; anal spine very strong, 3 in head; ventrals shorter 
than pectorals, which are 14 in head; scales very thin, covered with mi- 
nute scales on their base ; scales below the lateral line in horizontal series ; 
lateralline regularly arched to above posterior margin of anal. Coloration 
much asin Micropogon undulatus ; conspicuous undulating black lines fol- 
low the series of scales on whole of boby above the pectoral ; pectoral, ven- 
tral, and anal blackish, with broad whitish margin. Head 3} in length ;_ 
depth 3. D, IX-I, 24; A, II, 9; scales 6-60 (about)-10.] (Giinther.) 
REEDI, 88. 

