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Ancylodon. 



A sort of Otolithus with a very short muzzle, excessively long canines, 

 and a pointed tail*. 



CORVINA, CuV. 



Neither canini nor cirri; all the teeth dense as the pile on velvet. 

 They also differ from the Sciaenoides and the Otolithus in the size and 

 strength of the second anal spine. One species is very abundant in the 

 Mediterranean. 



Sc. nigra, Gm. ; Curb noir, Bl. 297. A silvery brown; ventrals 

 and anal blackf. 



JoHNius, BL 



The fishes of this subdivision are connected with those of the preceding 

 one by a nearly uninterrupted series, the second anal spine is merely 

 somewhat weaker and shorter than the subsequent soft rays. They are 

 found in India, where they form a considerable article of food, their flesh 

 is white and light ;|;. They are also met with in Senegal §, and in Ame- 

 rical|. 



Umbrina, Cuv. 



Distinguished from other Scisnoides by a cirrus under the symphysis of 



the lower jaw. 



A beautiful species is taken in the Mediterranean, — Sciceva cir- 

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

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

 a large natatory bladder furnished with some lateral, rounded sinuses^. 



The LoNCHURUs, BL, merely appear to differ from the Umbrinas in a 

 pointed caudal and two cirri on the symphysis **. The 



PoGONiAS, Lacep. 



Resemble the Umbrinae, but, instead of a single cirrus beneath the jaw, 

 there are several. 



• Lonchurus ancylodon, BL, Schii., pi. XXV. 



f Add, Corv. mifes, Cuv., or Telia katchelee, Russ. 117 ;—C. trispinosa, Cuv., or 

 Bodianus xlelUfer, Bl. 331, 1 ;— C. oscula, Lesueur, Ac. Nat So. Phil. Nov. 1822;— 

 Bola ctcja, Buchan., Fishes of the Ganges, pi. xii, f. 27 \—C.fur':raa, Cuv., Lacep, IV, 

 p. 424; and Bola editor, Buchan. XXVII, 24; Bodianus argyrolettcus, Mitch. Ann. 

 New York Lye. I, vi, 3. 



I The English of Bengal call it the Whiting. — John, maculalus, Bl., or sarikulla, 

 Russ. 123;— J. cataleus, Cuv., Russ. 116, or Bola chaptis, Buchan. X, 25. It is the 

 Lutjan diacanthe, Lacep. IV, 244 ;— J. auei, Bl. 357 ;— J. karuHa, Bl. \—J. pama, Cuv., 

 Buchan, XXXII, 26. 



. § J. senegalensis, Cuv., spec. nov. 



II J. hianeralis, Cuv., or Labrus obliquui, Mitchill, which also appears to be the 

 Perca tindulata, L.; — J. Xanthurus, or Leiostome, queue jaune, Lacep. IV, x, 1; — '. 

 saxalilis, Bl., Schn. 



^ The Cheilodiptere cyanoptere, Lacep. Ill, xvi, 3, is merely a rudely drawn Um- 

 brina. Add, Omb. Russelii, Cuv., Russel, 1 1 S ;—Sc. npbnlosa, Mitch. 111,5, which is 

 also the Perca albumus, L., Catesb. XII, 2;—Kingfis)i or Whiting of the United 

 States;— the Pogoiiallie dore, Lacep. V, 122. also belong-j to this subgenus. 



** Lonchurus bar Lotus, Bl. 360. 



