82 SKAT E. Class IV, 



v - Body broad, flat, and thin. 



RAY» 



Five apertures on each fide placed beneath 



Mouth fituated quite below. 



With lharp teeth. 



30. Skate. Bar); ? Arijl. Uft. an. Lib, Iftb. 69. Rati Jyn. pifc. 25. 



I. c. 5. Lib. VI. c. 10. Raia Batis. Lin.fyji. 395. 



Oppian Halieut. I. 103. Raia varia, dorfo medio gla- 



Raia undulata five cinerea. bro, unico aculeorum or- 



Rondel. 346. Ge/ner pifc. dine in Cauda. Arted. Jynon* 



791. 102. 



The Skate, or Flaire. Wil. Gronov. Zooph. No. 157. 



Size. fTM-JXS fpecies is the thinnefl in proportion to 

 JL its bulk of any of the genus, and alfo the 

 largeft, fonie weighing near two hundred pounds. 

 D esc rip. The nofe, though not long, is fharp pointed; 

 above the eyes is a fet of fhort fpines : the whole 

 upper part of that we examined was of a pale 

 brown. Mr. Ray fays, fome he faw were ftreak- 

 ed with black : the lower part is white, marked 

 with great numbers of minute black fpots. The 

 jaws were covered with fmall granulated but fharp- 

 pointed teeth. 



The tail is of a moderate length : near the 

 end are two fins : along the top of it is one row of 

 fpines, and on the edges are irregularly difperfed 



a few 



