4)66 FISHES. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Gen. 79- UMBKINA, Cuv. 



Snout less projecting than the preceding genus ; second dorsal 

 fin longer than the first ; preoperculi dentated ; teeth small, 

 crowded ; pores under the lower jaw. 



U. cirrhosa, Cuv. (Scicena, Lin.) Body pale-yellow, brownish on 

 the back, subargenteous beneath, with oblique yellow and blue 

 longitudinal lines, and a short cirrus on the lower jaw. 1 to 2 

 feet long. Inhabits the Mediterranean sea. Shaw, iv. pi. 77- 



Gen. 80. LONCHURUS, Bloch. 

 Head scaly ; ventral fins separate ; tail lanceolate. 



This genus differs from the preceding only in having the tail lanceolate. 

 L. barbatus, Bloch. Body ferruginous brown ; ventral fins sharp, 

 and placed at some distance from each other ; two cirri at the 

 lower jaw, and the first ray of the ventral fin elongated into a 

 bristle. 12 inches long. From Surinam Bloch, pi. 359. 



Gen 81. SCI.ENA, Lacepede. 



Snout scaly, blunt, and more or less prominent ; dentations of 

 the preoperculi almost insensible ; spines of the operculi well- 

 marked ; teeth elongating with age, and forming a row of 

 unequal hooks. 



S. nigra, Bloch. Black Scisena. Body blackish-brown, silvery to- 

 wards the belly, with black fins ; tail rounded. 10 to 12 inches 

 long. Inhabits Mediterranean seas. Bloch, pi. 297- 



S. aquila, Cuv. Body silvery gray, remarkable for its large branch- 

 ed swimming- vessel. Upwards of three feet long. Inhabits Me- 

 diterranean sea. Cuv. Reg. An. ii. 298. 



S carutta, Cuv. (Johnivs, Bloch.) Back and sides steel blue ; 

 belly and lateral line yellow ; dorsal and caudal fins bluish, the 

 others reddish-brown. 18 inches long. Inhabits Indian seas 

 Block, pi. 356. 



S. aneus, Cuv. (Johnius, Bloch.) Head compressed, scaly ; body 

 elongated ; back black ; sides white ; pectoral and ventral fins 

 reddish-brown ; anterior part of the dorsal fin blackish ; tail 

 bluish at the point. Indian seas. Block, pi. 357- 



Gen. 82. POGONIAS, Lacep. 



Snout obtuse ; bones of the head cavernous ; operculi scaly, but 

 without dentations ; teeth crowded ; pores under the lower 

 jaw ; spinous part of the dorsal fin separated from the other 

 to the base ; numerous small cirri at the lower jaw. 



P.Jasciata, Lacep. (Labrus grunniens, Mitchell.) Head thick ; 

 eyes large ; under jaw with about twenty short filaments ; dorsal 

 fin slightly notched. 12 inches long. Inhabits American seas. 

 Lacep. iii. pi. 138. 



Gen. 83. OTOLITHES, Cuv. 

 Dorsal fin in two parts ; dentations of the preoperculi scarcely 



