RAIA HOLLANDI. 351 



Raia kenojei. 

 Plate 24, fig. 1-2. 



Raia kenojei M Ciller & Henle, 1841, Plagios., p. 149, pi. 48; Richardson, 1846, Rept. Brit, assoc. 

 adv. sci. for 1845, p. 197; Schlegel, 1850, Jap. Pisces, p. 308; Bleeker, 1857, Act. Soc. sci. [nd. 

 NeerL, 3, p. 42 part; 1860, ibid., 8, p. 65; Ditmeril, 1865, Elasm., p. 556; Gunth., 1870, Cat. 

 fishes Brit, mus., 8, p. 461; Nystrom, 1887, K. Svensk. vet. akad. handl., 13, p. 51; Isiiikawa& 

 Matsuura, 1897, Cat. fishes, p. 60; Jord. & Snyder, 1900, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 23, p. 3:57; 

 Jord. & Fowler, 1903, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 26, p. 652; Pietschmann, 1908, Sitz. Akad. wifls. 

 Wien, 117, p. 646. 



Raia meerdervoortii Bleeker, 1860, Act. Soc. sci. Ind. Neerl., 8, p. 60; Jord. & Snyder, 1900, Proc. 

 U. S. nat. mus., 23, p. 337; Jord. & Fowler, 1903, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 26, p. 650, fig. 7; Piet- 

 schmann, 1908, Sitz. Akad. wiss. Wien, 117, p. 642. 



Raia japonica Nystrom, 1887, K. Svensk. vet. akad. handl., 13, p. 52. 



Disk rhomboid, broader than long, very blunt-angled in front, outer and 

 hinder margins and angles broadly rounded, anterior margins scarcely indented 

 opposite the spiracles. Snout short, about one and one half times the width of 

 the mouth, tip produced, rounded. Mouth large, undulated, width two thirds 

 of the length of the snout. Teeth small in 50 (42-50) rows, the crowns in a low 

 rounded keel ending in a sharp corner on the inward edge. Eyes and spiracles 

 rather small, their combined lengths nearly half the snout, or little more than 

 the interorbital width. Tail strong, short, less than length of body. Dorsals 

 separated by a space with tubercles. Body nearly naked, a few minute spines 

 along the anterior margins near the outer angles and below the edge of the snout. 

 Tubercles small, compressed, hooked : a pair of very small ones in front of each 

 orbit, a larger one opposite its middle and another behind it, two median tuber- 

 cles behind the head in front of the shoulder girdle, and a median and four (2-4) 

 lateral rows on the tail. 



Rusty brown profusely sprinkled with small spots of brown, in cases forming 

 rings or vermiculations, uniting in a large rounded inclosure on each shoulder, 

 behind which one or two smaller rings frequently occur. Lower surfaces dingy 

 white, brownish near the outer margins; pore openings below snout and gills 

 dark. 



Specimen described from the Idzu Sea, Japan, Alan Owston. Total length 

 17f, snout to the abdominal pores 9, snout to mouth 2\, and greatest width 12 

 inches. 



Raia hollandi. 



Raia hollandi Jordan & Richardson, 1910, Mem. Carnegie mus., 4, p. 163, pi. 64. 



Disk including the ventrals subquadrate. Snout sharp pointed, slightly 

 produced, rostral cartilage converging regularly to the end. Anterior margins 



