FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 357 



Raja polyommata Ogilby" I have been unable to locate from 

 Ogilby's original citation for 1910. The type is No. I. 1540 in the 

 Queensland Museum. 



The folloAying agg cases may pertain to unidentified species of 

 Raja : 



4436. D. 5313. 21°30' N., IIGMS' E. (China Sea, vicinity of Hongkong). 



November 1908. Length, 75 mm. 

 D. 5526. Balicasag Island (C), N. 15° W., 18.4 miles (9°12'45" N., 123°45'30" 



E.), between Siquijor and Bohol Islands. August 11, 1909. Length, about 



95 mm. 

 4251. D. 5587. Sipadan Island (W.) S. 12° E., 3.8 miles (4°10'35" N., 



118°37'12" E.), Sibuko Bay, Borneo. September 28, 1909. Length, 70 mm. 

 4090. D. 5656. Olang Point, N. 67° W., 14.5 miles (3°17'40" S., 120°36'45" 



E.), Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 19, 1909. Length, 92 mm. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a}. Teeth in less than 50 rows. 



b\ Large bucklerlike spines in female, mostly absent in male clavata 



6^ Body without large bucklerlike spines in female, none in male. 

 c\ Body largely smooth. 

 (f\ Snout abruptly narrowed into long sharp point ; median row of spines 



on tail tengu 



d*. Snout not greatly extended and narrowed in long sharp point. 

 e\ Lower surface of disk dark or at least partly dark. 

 f. Row of median vertebral thorns on back and tail. 



g^. Pale above; dark below reversa 



g^. Dark above and below atriventralis 



g^. Brown above, with or without white spots; below whitish or 



blotched black smithii 



f. Row of median vertebral thorns on tnil only, also series may be 

 present each side. 

 /i\ Uniform brown or spotted white; pectoral and ventral fins 

 with dark to blackish broad borders both above and below, 



especially in young alba 



ft'. Uniform dark above and below ; young with dark ring at each 

 pectoral base and yellowish white below, outer half of each 



pectoral dark fusca 



h^. Smoky black above ; black, mottled white, below. 



johannis-davisi 

 el Lower surface of disk pale or whitish. 



i\ Only single row of regular medial vertebral spines. 

 y\ No ocellus or dark blotch at each pectoral base above. 

 fc\ Uniform brownish above. 



Z'. Southern Australia and New Zealand lemprieri 



/A Okhotsk Sea smirnovi 



W. Finely and entirely dotted dark above hollandi 



/bl Upper surface brownish, with traces of small pale spots. 



bamardi 



•"Some new Qucensl. Fish., 20, Dec. 1910, p. 86: Cape Moreton, S. Q.," Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 5, p. 86, 1916 (Cape Moreton to North Reef in 70 fathoms). 



