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Figure 6o. Raja texana, male, 468 mm long, from Barataria, Louisiana (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 127294) and 

 female, 387 mm long, from Chauvin, Louisiana (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 16351). 



American Museum of Natural History, and Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 including a 468-mm male, close to maturity; also an embryo 87 mm long, with large 

 yolk sac, probably of this species, from Cortez, Florida. Other specimens from Galve- 

 ston, Aransas Pass, and Corpus Christi, Texas, in the U. S. National Museum were 

 also examined. 



Distinctive Characters. The most striking feature of R. texana (and of R. ackleyi as 

 well) is its color pattern with a single conspicuous dark-centered ocellar spot on the 



