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Figure 32. Raja eglanteria. A Female, 745 mm long, from Woods Hole, Massachusetts (Harv. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., No. 36234). B Male, 704 mm long, from Woods Hole, Massachusetts (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 No. 36233). C Posterior margin of nasal curtain of same, about 2.1 X. i? Margin of nostril of same, about 2.5 X . 



75°26' W) and off Southport (Cape Fear), North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; 

 Brunswick, Georgia; Pass-a-Grille and New Smyrna Beach, Florida; all in the Harvard 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 

 and the U. S. National Museum; two egg cases, with young hatched from them, taken 

 at Woods Hole, in Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; an embryo with large 

 yolk sac and egg case fragments, from Florida, in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Distinaive Characters. The presence of only a single row of thorns along the 

 midridge of the back on the disc separates R. eglanteria from R. erinacea, R. ocellata, 

 and R. garmani; the midrow of thorns extending forward to the region of the shoulders 

 on eglanteria distinguishes it from laevis in which the midrow is confined to the tail; 

 it is separated from R. senta in that the entire tail is thorny; the facts that the thorns 

 of the midrow along the tail are not much larger than those of the lateral rows and 

 that they number upwards of 1 8 separate it from R. radiata. The dark bars on the 

 upper surface of its disc are also distinctive. Should its range prove to extend farther 



