78 NEW- YORK FAUNA. 



rays ; tlie tips reach to within • 5 of the vent. The anal fin contains three spinous and seven 

 branched rays ; the first spine is short, triangular and acute ; the second longest, very robust 

 and acute, and its length is 0*8 inches ; the third shorter than the second : this fin ends op- 

 posite the tenth soft ray of the dorsal. Caudal furcate, with nineteen full rays and seven 

 accessories on each side. 



Color. Of this I can say nothing, as the specimen was in spirits. It appeared to have 

 been of a light yellowish hue, spotted with white and silvery. Irides yellow. 



Length, 8-0. Depth, 2-2. 



Fin rays, D. 10.19; P. 20; V. 1.5; A. 3.7; C. 19 ^ 



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The specimen which furnished the foregoing description, has existed for many years in the 

 Cabinet of the Lyceum, and was obtained from the adjacent coast. Dr. Mitchill regarded it 

 as allied, if not identical with his Coryphena perciformis, the Palinurus of this volume. It 

 is apparent from the above description, that it cannot be allied even to that species, nor can 

 it remain in the same family. We place it provisionally among the Corvinas, but are in- 

 clined to believe it to be the type of a new genus. 



GENUS UMBRINA. Cuvier. 

 Two dorsal fins. A single cirrus or beard on the point of the lower jaw. 



THE KING-FISH. 



Umbrina albhrnus. 



PLATE VII. FIG. 20. 



BmrnuU Whiling. Garden, Corr. of Lmneus, Vol. 1, p. 305. 



Perca albumtts. LiN. 12 Ed. p. 482. 



Albumus americanus. Catesb. Car. 2, pi. 12. 



Whiting. SCHCEPFF, Fishes of N. Y. Vol. 8, p. 162. 



Johnius regalis. ScHN. Bl." p. 75. 



Cenlropomus alhurmis. LacepeDE. 



Scieiia nebulosa, King-fish. MiTCHILL, Lit. and Phil. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 408, pi. 3, fig. 5. 



VOmbrine des Etats-Unis. Cov. et Val. Hist, des Poiss. Vol. 5, p. 180. 



U. nebulosa, the Kmgfish. Storeb, Massachusetts Report, p. 35. 



Characteristics. Dark grey, with silvery reflections ; oblique dusky bars and bands over the 

 back. Tail with a sinuous margin. Length twelve to eighteen inches. 



Description. Body elongated, cylindrical, tapering. Scales rounded, ciliated. Lateral line 

 concurrent with the back, and near it. Snout produced, prominent and blunt. Opercle with 

 two strong flat spines ; preopercle serrated behind. Branchial rays seven, the two upper and 

 two lower obscure. On the snout, in the fold which receives the upper jaw, are four cuti- 



' P. 15 ; V. 7 ; A. 12 ; C. 17 ; D. 9.9.30. Hab. in Am. Septentrionali in provinciam New-York. King vel White-fith dictus. 



