﻿lO "ENDEAVOUK" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Pristiofhorus nudipinnis, Gunther. 

 Saw Shark. 

 (Plate i., fig. 2.) 

 Pristiophorus nudipinnis, Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., 

 viii., 1870, p. 432; id., McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., 1881. 

 pi. hi., fig. 2; id., Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ii., 

 1908, p. 57. 

 The collection includes several fcetal and young specimens 

 from off the mouth of the Murray River, South Australia, 20 

 fathoms, and from Flinders Island, Investigator Group, South 

 Australia, 37 fathoms. 



Plate i., fig. 2, represents a young example, 445 mm. long, 

 from the latter locality. 



Family SQUATINID^. 

 Genus Squ.'\tina, Dumeril. 

 Squatina squatina, LinncBus. 

 Angel Shark. 

 Squalus sqiiatiini, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., 1758, p. 2;^;^. 

 Rhina squatina, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. iv. , 1879, 

 pi. xxxiv. 

 Young and fcetal examples were preserved from the follow- 

 ing localities : — 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 

 North-west of Greenly Island, South Australia, 44 fathoms. 

 Forty-two miles south of St. Francis Island, South Aus- 

 tralia, 35 fathoms. 



Family RAJID^t. 



Genus Raja, Linnceus. 



Raja australis, Macleay. 



Skate. 



Raia australis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, viii., 



1884, p. 461. 

 Raja australis, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, p. 40, 

 pi. iv. 

 Two large males were preserved from the Shoalhaven 

 Bight, N.S. Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 



Raja mtida, Gunther. 



(Fig- 3-) _ 



Raja nitida, Gunther, "Challenger" Rept., Zool. i., 1880, 



p. 27, pi. xiv., fig. a. 



This species has hitherto been known only from a small 



male, five inches wide, from off Iwofold Bay, New South 



Wales, 120 fathoms. The "Endeavour" collection includes 



