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7669. Ulugau Bay, Palawau Island. December 28, 1908. Length, 500 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 47611. Red Sea. Glen Island New York Museum. Length, 280 

 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 49326. Massaua, Red Sea. Milan Museum. Length, 34.> mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 58008. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearn.«. Length, 725 mm. Tail 

 cut in half, with 2 spines. 



U.S.N.M. No. 39975. Port Moresby, New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length, 

 585 mm.. 



1 example. A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. M. Hiller. 

 Length, 405 mm. In arraclv pale olivaceous brown above, dai'ker or dusky 

 down disk center and tail above. Disk above marked everywhere with large 

 deep ultramarine blue spots varying up to eye in size and irregularly dis- 

 tributed. Tail above with 2 longitudinal narrow blue bands along each side 

 from junction with disk till opposite lower caudal lobe base. Disk edges 

 above somewhat soiled buff brown. Disk below white, edges or borders 

 similar to those above, same also of ventrals. Tail dirty white below. 

 Lower caudal lobe blackish. 



TAENIURA MEYENI Muller and Henle 



Taciiiura tncycni Muller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 172, pi. 

 1841 (type locality: Mauritius). — Gray, List fish British Mu.seum, p. 124, 1851 

 (Cape Upstart, Queensland). — Dum^kil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. (520, 

 1865 (type).— GuNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 483, 1870 

 (copied).— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., pp. 5, 510, 1891. — Peiae- 

 SON, Ceylon Administr. Rep., p. E13, 1912-13. — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 36, p. 40O, 1913 (Mauritius). — Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., 

 vol. 18, p. 99, 1931 (reference). 



Head to hind spiracle edge 6% to caudal tip. Snout 1% in head to 

 hind spiracle edge ; eye 4%, eye 4% in snout, 2% in interorbital ; mouth 

 straight, width 11/2 iii internarial or 2% in preoral length; about 28 

 lower rows of teeth each with transverse groove; interorbital 1% in 

 head to hind spiracle edge. Spiracle close behind and slightly less 

 than eye, interspiracle space 1% in head to hind spiracle edge. 



Skin smooth. 



Tail with low keel above near end; subcaudal extends over great 

 part of tail terminally, equally deep medially as terminally ; pectorals 

 form nearly circular disk, which little broader than long, subequal 

 with tail. 



Blackish brown above. Below white, pectorals and ventrals with 

 blackish edges. (Miiller and Henle.) 



Mauritius, Ceylon. According to Dumeril the type is 480 mm. 

 long. 



Genus DASYATIS Rafinesque 



Dasyatis Rafinesque, Caratteri animali plante Sieilia, p. 16, 1810. (Type, 



Dasyatis ujo Rafinesque, monotyple. ) 

 Dasybatus (Klein) V^^albaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 581, 1792. [Atypic; type, 



Raja pastinaca Linnaeus, designated by Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 4, p. 35, 1881 (inadmissible).] 



