ADDENDA 20. KAIID.E RAIA. 877 



On page 39, after description of Torpedo calif ornica, add: 



36 (&). IVARCIi\E Henle. 



(Heule, Ueber Narcine, 31 : type Torpedo brasiliensis Olfers.) 



Disk more or less rounded, not emarginate in front; spiracles ex- 

 tremely close to the eyes, their edges tuberculate or smooth ; mouth 

 narrow, surrounded by a circular fold of skin, which forms the frenum 

 of the nasal valve; teeth in quincunx, not occupying the whole of the 

 jaw, following the edge of the jaw outward, so that most of them are 

 visible when the mouth is closed. Tail about as long as disk. Second 

 dorsal larger than first. Tropical Seas, (vd/^ij, numbness, an ancient 

 name of the Torpedo.) 



47 (&). IV. brasilicnsas (Olfers) Henle. 



Subsp. corallina Garruan. 



Orange; a dark brown band across the head in front of the eyes, inter- 

 rupted on the forehead; a large triangular space of the light color on 

 the snout in front of the dark band; rest of body with faint dark mark- 

 ings and small round spots. Posterior borders of dorsals and caudal 

 truncate ; otherwise as in N. brasiliensis (Olfers) Henle, of which species 

 this is thought to be a local variety. (Garman.) N~. brasiliensis has the 

 disk oval; the first dorsal smaller than the second; the teeth pointed 

 and the spiracles very close to the eye, surrounded by a ring of small 

 tubercles. Pensacola, Florida, to Brazil. 



(Torpedo brasiliensis Olfers, Torped. 19: Giiiither, viii, 453; Garman, Bull. Mus. 

 Corap. Zool. xi, 234, 1881.) 



On page 42, after Raia granulata, add : 

 53 (&). K. os'Biata Garman. 



Allied to R. eglanteria. Light brownish, freckled with paler, marked 

 with a few groups of small darker spots; several spots on the tail; one 

 at base of each dorsal. Disk little broader than long, the anterior mar- 

 gins convex; tip of snout obtuse; snout not produced; rostral cartilage 

 obtuse. Width of mouth three-fourths its distance from end of snout. 

 Teeth in upper jaw in 44 series. A median series of spines on back and 

 tail; a lateral series on each side of this on back, and two on tail; a 

 series on each orbital ridge ; a single spine on forehead between eyes . 

 several above tip of snout; a group on hinder angle of pectoral and on 

 its anterior extremity ; besides these the entire upper surface is rough 

 with small asperities; lower surface smooth. Tail a little longer than, 

 disk. Deep water; off the coasts of South Carolina and Florida. (Gar- 



