SCI^NA. SCI^ENA. 



Generic Character. 



Caput squamosum. 

 Pinnte dorsales duae, in 

 fossula recondendae. 



Membr. branch, radiis sex. 



Head scaly. 



Dorsal fins two, seated in a 

 furrow*, into which they 

 may occasionally with- 

 draw. 



Gill-membrane six-rayed. 



With divided or lunated tail. 



BEARDED SCLENA. 



Scisena Cirrosa. S. ftavescens, subtus subargenfea, lineis longi- 

 tudinalibus obliquis nigricantibus, mento barbato. 



Yellowish Sciaena, subargenteous beneath, with obliquely longi- 

 tudinal dusky lines, and a beard on the lower jaw. 



Sciaena cirrosa. Lin. Gmel. Block. 



Arist, Aelian, fyc. Umbra. Rondel, fyc. 



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.ABIT that of a Carp : length from one to two 

 feet : colour pale yellow, brownish on the back, 

 and marked on each side by many obliquely longi- 

 tudinal dusky-blue lines, which assume a slightly 

 silvery cast towards the abdomen: upper lip obtuse, 



* This is not equally conspicuous in all the Sciaenos, nor con- 

 fined to this genus 3 occurring in some of the Spari, Perccc, %c. 



