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The specimens from near Cape St Blaize, sent to the British Museum in 1900 by 

 Dr Gilchrist, and identified by Dr Boulenger as R. miraletus, prove to belong to R. 

 ocelli/era. 

 Raja barnardi, sp.n. 



Disc a little broader than long, its width scarcely f of the total length; anterior 

 margins a little undulated; outer angles smoothly rounded. Vent a little nearer to 

 tip of snout than to end of tail. Snoutwith a 

 rather short, obtuse, triangular projection, 

 its length 4I in width of disc. Interorbital 

 width about equal to diameter of eye; 

 eye + spiracle 2| in length of snout. Inter- 

 nasal width 2^ in praeoral length of snout. 

 Teeth more or less pointed in middle of 

 jaws; 40 to 42 rows. Upper surface of disc 

 and tail mainly smooth, but a large patch of 

 spinules on anterior part of each pectoral, 

 and some scattered spinules on snout, inter- 

 orbital region, middle of back and hinder 

 parts of pectorals; 2 praeocular and 4 post- 

 ocular spines; 3 median nuchal spines, 

 with a smaller one on each side; a single 

 median spine above the suprascapulary 

 region; 2 scapular spines; a series of 24 

 median spines extending from just behind 

 the suprascapulary region to the first 

 dorsal; anterior part of tail with a some- 

 what irregular series of spines on each side ; 

 edges of tail with numerous small spinules. 

 Lower surface quite smooth except at edges 

 of snout. Upper surface brownish, with 

 traces of small pale spots; lower surface 

 uniformly pale. 



Hob. Ofl^ Cape Town. 



Fig. 14. Raja barnardi. Holotype. X; 



Described from a single male specimen, 375 mm. in total length (210 mm. across 

 disc), from 34° S, 17° 58' E, at a depth of 210-173 m.; obtained by the Discovery- 

 Expedition. 



Raja caudaspinosa, von Bonde and Swart. 



? Raia albaliuea, von Bonde and Swart, 1923, t.c, p. 6, pi. xx, fig. i. 



Raia caudaspinosa, von Bonde and Swart, 1923, t.c, p. 8, pi. xxi, fig. i; Barnard, 1925, t.c, 



p. 66. 



Disc rather broader than long, its width about f of the total length ; anterior margins 

 a little undulated ; outer angles obtusely pointed. Vent much nearer to tip of snout 



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