BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., itC. 63 



believed to inhabit only the Arctic Regions, but the recent 

 discovery of one by Professor MacCoy on the Coast of Victoi'ia, 

 seeing to point to the conclusion that it is also an inhabitant of 

 Antarctic Seas. 



The Victorian specimen caught at Portland Bay, measured over 

 30 feet in length and 20_feet in girth. 



Family. SCYLLID^E. 

 1286. Crossorhinus ornatus. De Vis. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc., N. S. Wales. Vol VIII., p. 289. 

 Moreton Bay. 



Family. RAILD^E. 

 1287. Raja australis. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VIII., p. 461. 

 Outside Port Jackson in 50 fathoms. 



1288. Raja nitida. Gunth. 



Report Chall. Exp. Zool. Part VI, p. 27. PL XIV., fig. A. 



Angle of snout obtuse, with a very thin median papillary pro- 

 jection. Width of interorbital space a little less than the length 

 of the orbit, and distance between the outer margins of the 

 nostrils, less than their distance from the extremity of the snout. 

 Teeth with very small points, almost obtuse. Outer pectoral 

 margin obtusely rounded, the greatest width of disk being equal 

 to the distance of the snout from the extremity of the ventral. 

 All the upper parts covered with minute asperities, one or two 

 curved spines in front, and behind the orbit, one in the middle of 

 the back, and a series along the median line of the tail. Above 

 light brown marbled with dark brown blotches which are orna- 

 mented with small round yellowish ocelli. 



Twofold Bay, 120 fathoms. 



1289. Raja dentata. Klunz. 

 Archiv. fur Naturg., XXX VIII., 1872. 



Breadth 1^ in the total length. Length of disk (to the end of 

 the base of the pectoral fins) 1^ of the breadth of the disk. Tail 

 nearly as long as the disk, which is twelve times as long as the 



