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fiirnished with numerous granulär teeth The Iwo fins on the ridge 



of thc tail, or dorsal fins, are oblong and obluse. The tail, fi^om the 

 first dorsal fin, is short, broad, compressed, bat diminishcs and grows 

 rounder, as it approaches to the caudal fin, wich is broad, oblique 

 blunt and on tlie lower edge slightly fringed. The colour of the Up- 

 per part a dusky brown, spotted with equal round or oval black spols, 

 the under part of the body white. The length from the rostrum to 

 the beginning of the tail ten inches, the tail to the tip of the fin, 

 nine inches.'' 



3. liaja ocellala. No. 2. {Nalla Temeree.) RusselM). 



Rcija hicolor. Shaw. a. a. 0. 



„R. corpore rotundalo-ovato, laevi, foraminibus pone oculis ob- 

 longis, dorso dipterygio, cauda inermi, pinnata. 



The heat havily distinguishable from the flat, orbicular body, 

 which assumes somewhat of an oval form towards the rostrum. The 

 eyes and the apertures behind them 2 inches from the point of the 

 roslrum. The niouth, nostrils, as in the described fish. The ventral 



fins situate as usual, at ihe beginning of the tail The colour above 



white, spotted universally with round, black spots, a remarkable trian- 

 gulär mark 1" behind the eyes and a smaller, at half a distance, in 

 front. The belly white. The length from the rostrum to the tail, 1". 

 The length of the tail to the point of the fin, 8"." 



Dafs diese beiden Rochen nicht specifisch verschieden, sondern 

 höchstens als Varietäten zu betrachten seyen, hat schon Shaw aner- 

 kannt, obschon er jedem einen besondern IXamen giebt. In den Be- 

 schreibungen, wie in den rohen Abbildungen, finden wir nichts chara- 

 cteristisch, als die doppelte Rückenflosse, die kleinen, dicht bei den 

 Spritzlöchern stehenden Augenspalten und die etwas spitz zulaufende 

 Scheibe. Bei der ISalla Temeree nähert sich die Form der letztern 



1) A. a. O. p. 2. Tab. II. 



