Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2751 



Page 74. After Haja e<iuatorialis add: 



104(a). RAJA ROSISPINIS, GiU & Townsend. 



SnoiU moderately produced, with a soft, moderately narrow, rostral car- 

 tilao-e and a bluntisli tip; interorbital space nearly plane; snout with a 

 mimber of plates having stellate bases abont middle, and many smaller 

 asperities, leaving only the borders of the pectorals and ventrals naked; 

 larger spines with stellate bases are interspersed between the disk and the 

 pectoral rays ; back with sparse, coarse prickles ; a row of about 26 thorn- 

 like spines, with radiating ridges, extends from the interhumeral area to 

 the dorsal fins; 2 spines on each shoulder, 1 spine above antocular region, 

 another above postocular region, and another behind it about + the dis- 

 tance; skeleton soft. Bering Sea; only the type known, {roseus, rosy; 

 sjHnxs, spine.) 



Baia rosispinis. Gill & TowNSEND, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 231, 



Bering Sea. (Type, No. 487C2, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatross.) 

 Raia obtusa,* GiLL c<. Townsend, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 231, 



Bering Sea. (Type, No. 48703, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatross.) 



104(b). RA.IA IXTERRUPTA, Gill & Town.'jend. 



Snont moderately produced, with a very soft attenuated rostral carti- 

 lage and a blunt tip; interorbital space concave; mouth small; the width 

 eqnal to ^ preoral area ; entire back covered with very small embedded 

 spines, extending nearly uniformly over the disk and snout, leaving only 

 the tip of the latter naked; a roAV of compressed, acntely curved, smooth 

 spines along middle of back, extending from the interhumeral region to 

 dorsal, but interrupted along the posterior half of disk, where the spines 

 are absent or obsolete; about 4 spines are in the anterior portion and the 

 series recommences on a line with the emargination of the disk; a single 

 spine on each shoulder and occasionally a rudimentary second; no special- 

 ized supraorbital .spines. Bering Sea; only the type known, {iutcrnq)- 

 tus, interrupted.) 



Saia inierrupta, GiLL & TowNSEND, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 232, 

 Bering Sea. (Type, No. 48760, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. A Ibatrosg.) 



Page 75. liaja alentica and Baja abysskola were described by Gilbert 

 (not Gilbert & Thoburn) in Rept. U. S. Fish. Comm. 1893 (Dec. 9, 1896), 396 

 and 397, pis. 20 and 21. 



* The following is the original description of this nominal species : 



Snout not at all produced ,%ut very bluntly rounded; int.rorbita space narrow ;ir.outh 

 sinan rectilinear; minute distant priclvles on the snout, the .ntenor portion o 'li«k fud 

 rterorbTt-il area, as well as in a broad median band extending on tad to dorsal an com- 

 mencing at tl.e interhumeral area; a row of scarcely enlarged acute spu.es ^^^^.^^_ 

 an uninterrupted row of unguiform spines wUh smooth bases extending ''O" J';.^, '^ler 



umera area to dorsal fin; 2%lmilar spines arm each shoulder I^ermg .Sea; o^ly th^ 

 known. (tJill and Townsend.) To which we add : Spines in longit idinal *er es -3 to -& 

 width of mouth 13 in preoral area; width of disk U f"'^\„".«/"^-*' ' ^'^ ^f'^'ase of ven 

 than disk; interorbital width 3 in snout; snout from e>;e3s m 'bsk toond ot base oi ven 

 trals Color plain brown, rather pale. One specimen 11 inches long, a veiy young male 

 in very bad condition. Evidently the young of B. rosisinvis. 



