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area on tail ; back and tail with a median row of 22 to 29 large spines ; 

 tail with a marginal row of largo spines ( 9 ) ; rest of disk mostly smooth ; 

 lower side mostly smooth except below snout. Olive brown, with 

 numerous paler blotches, 2 larger than the others. L. 3 feet. Coast of 

 Alaska, common. (Bean.) (jjarma, shield; /ero, I bear.) 



Ilaia parmifera, Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 157, Iliuliuk, Unalaslia ; (Type, No. 27051). 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 878, 1883. 



106. RAJA STELLITLATA, Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Disk much broader than long, anteriorly broadly arched ; the snout 

 very obtvise, but its tip slightly exserted and acutish ; anterior margin of 

 pectorals somewhat undulated and convex ; posterior margin very con- 

 vex. A row of small stoutish spines above eye ; about G spines on the 

 scapular region, and a median row of strong spines on the tail; entire 

 upper surface rough with strong stellate prickles; these largest on 

 head, middle of back, and on tail; underside smooth, except anteriorly. 

 Teeth ^^. Nasal cartilage very weak. Color brown, everywhere strongly 

 variegated with light and dark colors; a black spot at base of each pec- 

 toral, surrounded by a pale ring, and this by a black ring; numerous 

 black spots of various sizes, some of them ocellated, scattered over the 

 body ; head with black crossbars. Disk i broader than long ; the length 

 of tail more than i the width of disk; the snout 4| in length of disk, 

 and 2i times the iuterorbital width ; the snout is as long as in inorimta, 

 but much wider, appearing blunt and short. L. 2^ feet. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia and northward, Santa Barbara to Unalaska; locally abundant 

 about Monterey, (stellula, a small star, from the form of prickles.) 

 Raja stellulala, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 133, Monterey ; Jordan A Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 45, 1883. 



107. RAJA AliEUTICA, Gilbert & Thoburn. 



Closely related to E. sielhtlata, differing in the much finer stellate 

 prickles, which uniformly cover the entire upper side of disk, the con- 

 tinuous series of median spines, the narrower disk, and longer, sharper 

 snout. The latter forms a right angle, its length more than ^ length of 

 disk. Interorbital space deeply concave, the rostral cartilage a slender 

 rod, with semitranspareut spaces on either side. Anterior margins of disk 

 gently convex near snout, concave near pectoral angle. Length of tail 

 equaling distance from snout to vent. Teeth f|. No spines or enlarged 

 prickles on orbital rim. Two large spines on shoulder. A broad band of 

 enlarged prickles on each side of tail. 



The single specimen is a young male, 33 inches long, taken south of Una- 

 laska Island, Aleutian group, at a depth of 81 fathoms. The species 

 evidently reaches a larger size than either stclhilata ov ixirmif ok, as the 

 claspers failed to reach ventral margin, and the pectoral hooks were un- 

 developed in the type. 



Rnja aleiUka, Gilbert & Thobikn, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1894; Sannak Island, Aleutians. 

 lOS. RAJA TRACHURA, Gilbert. 



Allied to Eaja isotrachys, a deep water species, but the disk broader, the 

 snout much blunter, the angle much greater than a right angle. Upper 



