78 Bulletin 4J, United States National Museum. 



Torpedo califomica, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1854, 70, San Francisco. 

 Torpedo califoniica, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 876, 188:i. 



50. NARCINE, Henle. 



Narcine, Henle, Ueber Narcino, 31, 1834, {hrasileivis). 



Oijclonarce, Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, vili, 387, (timlei). 



Gonhnarce, Gill, I. c, {iudica). 



Disk more or less rounded, not emarginate in front; spiracles very 

 close to the eyes, their edges tuberculate or smooth ; mouth narrow, sur- 

 rounded by a circular fold of skin, which forms the freuum of the nasal 

 valve; teeth in quincunx, not occupying the whole of the jaw, most of 

 them visible when the mouth is closed. Tail about as long as disk ; sec- 

 ond dorsal larger than first. Warm seas; the species usually smaller 

 than the species of Torpedo. [vupKi], numbness, an old name of the Tor- 

 pedo). 



112. NARCINE BRASILIENSIS, (Olfers). 



Disk oval or nearly circular, the snout broadly rounded, not exserted; 

 spiracles with roughened edges; snout 4^ in disk, twice interorbital 

 width; mouth If in preoral part of snout; tail 1* times length of disk; 

 second dorsal a little higher and a little longer than first. Color varia- 

 ble, a fact which has given rise to several nominal species; sometimes 

 nearly uniform dark brown (in deep water); sometimes marked above 

 with dark spots and dashes (umhrosa); sometimes with a dark band 

 across head and dark spots elsewhere (corallinu). West Indies and 

 Brazil, occasionally northward to Key West and Pensacola. L. 2 feet. 



Torpedo brasiliemis, von Olfers, Torpedo, 19, 1831, Brazil. 



Narcine brasiliensis, Gunther, Cat., viii, 453, 1870. 



Narcine hrasiliensis corallina,GAnu AN, Bull, Mus. Comp. Zobl., xi, 234, 1881, Florida ; Jordan & 



Gilbert, Synopsis, 877, 1883. 

 Narcine umbrosa, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 105, Key West. 

 Narcine brasiliensui, Jordan A Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 472. 

 Torpedo hancrofli, Griffith, Anim. Kingdom, x, 649, \i\. xxxiv, 1834, Jamaica. 

 Narcine nigra, Dl'SiiniL, Kevue Zool., 272, 1852, Brazil. 

 Torpedo piclus, Geonow, Cat. Fishes, 13, 1854, Antilles. 



SI. DISCOPYGE, Tschudi. 



Discopyge, TscilUDl, Fauna Peruana, 32,1844, (Ischudii). 



Ventral fins united into a continuous disk below the tail. Disk circu- 

 lar; tail with 2 dorsal fins and with a fold on each side; nasal valves 

 confluent; teeth flat, the hinder edge angular; spiracles close behind 

 eyes. Two species in the Eastern Pacific; small electric rays resembling 

 Narcine, but with united ventrals. (diaKog, disk; nvy?/, rump, from the 

 disk-like ventrals). 



li;{. DISCOPYGE OMMATA, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Spiracles with coarse fringes. Snout 4^ in disk; eye small; interorbi- 

 tal space li in snout. Width of mouth 11 in preoral part of snout ; tail 

 slightly shorter than rest of body ; second dorsal narrower and higher 



