NARCINE INDICA. 299 



on a thirteen inch specimen. Eyes small. Spiracles larger than the eyes, close 

 behind the orbit, with rudimentary papillae on the margins. Ventrals rounded 

 at outer angles, nearly straight on outer margins. Dorsals subequal, rather 

 pointed, bases wider than the fins; origin of first dorsal little behind the ends of 

 the ventral bases, its distance from the second more than a half length of the 

 base. Caudal longer than deep, vertically truncate. Total length 13, length of 

 disk 6, snout to vent 7 and width of disk 6i inches. 



Rusty brown with irregular small and larger spots, largest along the middle 

 of the back; white beneath. 



China. 



Narcine indica. 



Raiti ocellaia no. 1 Russell, 1803, Coromandel fishes, 1, p. 1, pi. 1. 



Raia maculala Shaw, 1804, Zool. 6, pt. 2, p. 316. 



Narcine indica Henle, 1834, Ueber Narcine, p. 35, pi. 2, f. 2; Muller & Henle, 1841, Plagios., p. 130; 



T. Cantor, 1849, Malay fishes, p. 417; Dumeril, 1852, Torpedo, p. 54; 1865, Elasm., p. 517. 

 Narcine maculata Dumeril, 1852, Torpedo, p. 35; 1865, Elasm., p. 518. 

 Narcine microphthalma Dumeril, 1852, Torpedo, p. 36. 

 Gonionarce indica Gill, 1861, Ann. N. Y. lye, 7, p. 387. 

 Narcine timlei Gunth., 1870, Cat. fishes Brit, mus., 8., p. 452. 



Disk about half the total length, subovate, broader than long, greatest 

 width equal distance from snout to vent. Snout moderate, broadly rounded in 

 front. Anterior nasal valves very short, confluent, reaching the teeth in a me- 

 dian prominence, rounded on the outer angles. Posterior narial valves, in a low 

 fold, reaching the outer side of the nostril; they extend back from the middle in 

 a wider fold toward the angle of the mouth. Mouth small; teeth bands narrow, 

 rounded at their outer ends; teeth small, each acuminate on the inner edge, in 

 || rows on a specimen of twelve and one half inches. Eyes small. Spiracles 

 much larger than the eyes, close behind the orbits, without papillae on the edges. 

 Dorsals about equal, upper angles rounded; origin of first dorsal above the ends 

 of the bases of the ventrals, base equal nearly twice the distance from the second. 

 Caudal medium, angles rounded, subcaudal fin rather deeper than in N. timlei, 

 hind margin obliquely convex. 



Specimen described from Penang. Brown with smaller and larger spots of 

 darker. Cantor gives the colors of others from the same locality as light reddish 

 brown with numerous spots of chocolate color, and says the young have the 

 spots edged with silvery white; whitish beneath. Compared with N. timlei 

 this species appears to be broader and less round in the disk, a wider subcaudal 

 gives the appearance of a deeper caudal fin, the dorsals differ slightly in shape 

 and the first dorsal is inserted farther forward. 



