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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MVSEUM. 



44. RAJA TENGU Jordan and Fowler, new species. 

 TENGU-L:I (LONG-NOSED RAY). 



Intei'orbital space 3 in snout; width of mouth 2f ; leng-th of fi 

 dorsal 4f ; <'audal <>; eye 4^ in interorhital space. 



Body N'ery ln'oad, width of disk niucli g-reater than its lenj^th. Hei 

 hirge; snout greatly produced, tapering to a sharp point; eyes smai 

 i-athei- far apai't, though farther from margin of disk than this intervr 

 mouth large, sliglitly curved or arch(»d, with l^S rows of large teeth 

 jaws; upper lip not free in middh^; nostrils very lai"ge, broadly sep; 

 rated at corners of mouth, with which they are confiuent, and witfci 



Fi(i. 8. — Raja tengu. 



large flap, the posterior margin of which is ])roadly fringed; spa* 

 between anterior part of nostril and corners of mouth 5, in spar 

 between former and tip of snout; interorhital space broad, concavi 

 the supraoral ridges large, broad and convex. Spiracles smaller thai 

 eye, oblique, directly posterior. Gill-slits small. 



Snout roughened above; a number of small spines in front of ar 

 over eye, several on back behind head; a single row of spines dow 

 middle of tail above, a row on each side of same, and all rest of uppt 

 surface perfectly smooth; lower surface of body, except ventrals an 

 tail, roughened, especially on snout. 



First dorsal a little larger than second, from which it is well sepJ 

 rated, intervening space equal to two-thii-ds length of second dorsa 



