THE 
BEARDED SCIiENA. 
Generic Character. 
Scales firongly fixed. 
Head fcaled. 
Back with two fins. 
Tboracici. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Yellowifh SCLdENA, fubargenteous beneath, with 
longitudinal blackifli ftripes, and a cirrus or 
beard on the under jaw. 
L’UMBRE. 
Rond. Hijl. de Pol//’, p. 120. 
Will, icloth, p. 2 gg. t. p. lg. 
The genus Scitena was characterized by Linnseus 
principally from the circumftance of a fort of lon¬ 
gitudinal cavity or fojjula dorfalis into which the 
back fin might occafionally be fo far depreffed as to 
be in a manner concealed from view. Dr. Bloch 
however has obferved that this character, excluiive 
of its being found in a more ftriking degree in 
feveral 
