UMBRINA. 
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seems to confound witli the true Scimna or Maigre, the latter 
not being otherwise mentioned in his work. He describes it 
M having a pointed snout and large mouth; the teeth rough 
in the jaws, but none in the palate. Nostrils wide; on the 
lower jaw five pores, and eight on the upper. From the head 
to the dorsal fin a beautiful light blue, with lines or streaks 
from the middle of the back obliquely forward, and alternately 
dusky and pale blue, growing paler in their descent. Fin 
rays of the tail yellow, becoming black near the end the 
lowermost altogether black; ventral fins as if dipped in iLk. 
Fm rays— first dorsal nine or ten, second dorsal twenty-three 
pectoral fifteen, ventral six, of which the first is a spine, anJ 
eight, the nrst albo spiuoua. 
