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in the back quite coarse, especially about the vertebral and shoulder 

 tubercles. Its snout is rather wide terminally. Two seen in the 

 Queensland Museum from Moreton Bay, one of 1,525 mm. length. 



9385. Cebu market. September 2, 1909. Length, 520 mm. 



7621. Mouth of Malampaya River and vicinity. December 26, 1908. 498 mm. 



5082. Sandalian, Borneo. March 1, 1908. Length, 595 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 30530. Port Moresby, New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length, 



278 to 368 mm. 2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40022. Port Moresby, New Guinea. Length, 530 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 29015. No locality. Australian Museum. Length, 930 mm. 



RHINOBATOS OBTUSUS Muller and Henle 



Rhinohatus (Rhinohatus) obfiisus Mxjller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagios- 

 tomen, p. 122, pi. 37, fig. 2, 1841 (type locality: India, Pondicherry, Mala- 

 bar).— Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 82, 1853 

 (reference) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 21, p. 58, 1860 (name). — 

 Dum:6bil, Hist, Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 493, 1865 (Malabar, Indies, 

 Pondicherry). 



Rhinoiatus oMusus Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 97 1851 (Cape Seas). — 

 Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 37, 1860 (Calcutta).— Day, 

 Fishes of Malabar, p. 274, 1865. — GIjnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 

 8, p. 443, 1870 (East Indies). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, 

 No. 2, p. 155, 1914 (Natal).— Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 950, text 

 fig. 4 (rostra), 1926 (India, East Indies). — Barnabd, Ann. South African 

 Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 1014, 1927 (note). 



Rhinohattis halavi (not ForskSl) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 731, pi. 192, 

 fig. 4, 1878 (Mangalore).— Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 275, 

 1913 (part).— Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 62, 1925 

 (Natal). 



Snout short, broad, obtusely pointed, margins scarcely concave; 

 rostral ridges rather narrow, more or less separated throughout their 

 length, diverging little anteriorly and posteriorly; eye about 8 in 

 snout, eye and spiracle 1% to 1% in space between spiracles; mouth 

 nearly straight, width 1% in preoral length; nostrils rather long, 

 oblique, twice mouth width, nearly equal internarial, front valve 

 scarcely extending inwards. Only outer fold of spiracle developed, 

 weak, space between spiracles 2l^ in snout. 



Denticles enlarged on back, scapular region and top of head ; some 

 in median line of back spinous ; no distinct series of spines. 



First dorsal nearly twice high as long, origin distance behind ven- 

 tral bases twice interdorsal, base 2^ to 2i/^ in interdorsal. 



Color not given. Length, 930 mm. (Norman.) 



South Africa, Natal, India, East Indies. 



RHINOBATOS THOUIN (Anonymous) 



Raja thotiin Anonymous, Allg. Lit.-Zeit., vol. 3, pp. 287, 677, 685, pi. 1, figs. 3, 4, 



1798 (no locality given). 

 Raja thouinianus Shaw, General zoology, vol. 5, 1804, p. 318, pi. 147, fig. 2, 



1804 ["Mus. Prince of Orange". On La raie thouin Lac§p6de, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., vol. 1, p. 134, pi. 1, figs. 3-5, 1798 (locality unknown)]. 



