SQUATINIDAE n 



Described from two specimens, a male of 470 mm. and a female of 450 mm. ; presented 

 to the British Museum by Dr Tomas L. Marini. 



It is with some hesitation that I have identified these specimens with the Chilean 

 species, known only from Philippi's rather poor description and figure. 1 It appears to 

 be nearly related to S. aculeata (Cuvier), differing chiefly in the smaller eye, less 

 complicated nasal flaps, shorter pelvic fins, differently shaped pectorals, and in the 

 coloration. From S.japonica, Bleeker, another species with a median series of enlarged 

 denticles, it may be readily distinguished by having the distance between the spiracles 

 equal to instead of greater than the interocular width. 



TORPEDINIDAE 

 Discopyge tschudii, Heckel. 



1846, in Tschudi, Fauna Peru., Ichth., p. 33, pi. vi; Dumeril, 1865, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1, p. 521 ; 



Giinther, 1870, Cat. Fish., viu, p. 454; Berg, 1895, Anal. Mus. Nac. B. Aires, iv, p. 10; 



Steindachner, 1898, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv, p. 332, pi. xxi, fig. 14; Garman, 1913, Mem. 



Mus. Comp. Zool, xxxvi, p. 303. 



St.WS776. 3.xi.3i. 46" 18' 15" S, 65 02' 15" W. Commercial otter trawl, 107-99 m - : 4 female 



specimens, 250-305 mm. 



Fig. 3. Discopyge tschudii. x \. 



1 The specimen from Peru described by Evermann and Radcliffe (1917, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xcv, p. 1 1) 

 may have belonged to this species. 



