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rakers short and slender, 5+9; second dorsal spine highest, 2 in bead; 

 soft rays high; second anal spine 2£ in head ; pectorals slightly shorter 

 than ventrals, which are If in head. Color bluish, silvery below, dark 

 streaks along the rows of scales very faint, broader than the pale inter- 

 spaces. Head 3£ in length ; depth 3. D. X-I, 33 ; A. II, 7 ; scales 8-53-9. 



Dorsalis.. 93. 

 87. UMBRINA CIRROSA. 



Scicena No. 1. Artedi, Genera 38, 1734 (Mediterranean). 



Scicena cirrosa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 289, 1758 (Mediterranean ; after Artedi). 



Johnius cirrhosus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 72, 1801. 



Umbrina cirrhosa of recent writers generally. 



Pwca umbra Lace'pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 16, 1802 (not Scicena umbra Linnaeus). 



Chilodipferus cyanopierus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 54G, plate 6, fig. 3, 1802 (on 



a painting by Plunder). 

 Coracinm boops Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiat., iii, 259, 1811. 

 Umbrina vulgaris Guichenot, Expl. de l'Alg^rie, 43, 1850 (coast of Algeria). 

 Scicena ceslreus Gronow, Cat. Fish., ed. Gray, 52, 1854 (Mediterranean). 



Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea. 



This handsome species is rather common in the waters of Southern 

 Europe. Our specimens are from Venice and Palermo. 



88. UMBRINA REEDI. 



Umbrina reedi Giinther, Shore Fishes, Challenger, 25, plate xiii, fig. B, 1880 (Juan 

 Fernandez). 



Habitat. — Coast of Chili. 



We know this species from Giiuther's description only. 



89. UMBRINA BROUSSONETI. 



Umbrina broussoneli Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 187, 1830 (Jamaica). Storer, 

 Syn. Fish. North Am., 324, 1846 (copied). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit, Mus., ii, 

 277, 1860 (San Domingo, Jamaica). Cope, Ichthyol. Lesser Antilles, 471, 

 1870 (St. Martin). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. Am., 576, 1883 (specimens 

 described from Indian River, Florida). 



Umbrina coroides Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 187, 1830 (Brazil). Storer, Syn. 

 Fish. North Am., 323, 1846 (copied). Poey, Enumeratio, 48, 1875 (Cuba). 



Habitat— West Indian Fauna; Florida to Brazil. 



This species i s known to us from two specimens taken by Dr. J. A. 

 Henshall in the Indian Eiver, Florida. These agree on the whole bet- 

 ter with Umbrina coroides C. & V., than with Umbrina broussoneti; 

 but we think that Dr. Giinther is probably right in regarding the two- 

 nominal species as identical. 



We have also examined specimens from Jeremie, Hayti, and from 

 Pernambuco in the museum at Cambridge. 



90. UMBRINA RONCADOR. 



(The Yellow-finned Roncador.) 



Umbrina undulata Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitr., iii, 21, 1875 (San Diego) (not of 

 Girard). 



Umbrina xanti Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 48 (Santa Barbara south- 

 ward). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 456 (Santa Barbara, 

 San Pedro, San Diego) (not of Gill). 



