86 FULLER RAY. Class IV. 



mixed with white, and fpotted with black; and 

 entirely covered with fmall fpines. On the tail 

 were three rows of great fpines : all the reft of 

 the tail was irregularly befet with lelTer. 



The fins, and under fide of the body were 

 equally rough with the upper. 



The teeth were flat, and rhomboidal. 



33, Fuller. Raia fullonica. Rondel. $$y. Raia dorfo toto acnleato, acu- 



Gefner pifc. 797. leorum ordine iimplici ad 



Raia afpera noftras, the white oculos, duplici in cauda. 



horfe. fVil. Iclb. 78. Raii Arted. fyn. 101. Gronov, 



fyn. pifc. 26. Zooph. No. 155. 



P.aia fullonica. Lin. Jyft, 



THIS fpecies derives its Latin name from 

 the inftruments fullers make ufe of in 

 fmoothing cloth, the back being rough and fpiney. 



The nofe is ihort and fharp. At the corner of 

 each eye a few fpines. The membrane of nictita- 

 tion is fringed. Teeth fmall, and fharp. 



On the upper part of the pectoral fins are three 

 rows of fpines pointing towards the back, crook- 

 ed, like thofe on a fuller's inftrument. 



On the tail are three rows of ftrong fpines : 

 the middle row reaches up part of the back. The 

 fail is (lender, and rather longer than the body. 



The color of the upper part of the body is 

 pnereous^ marked ufually with numerous black 



fpots ; 



