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Head to first gill opening 41/2 to end of tail; disk length 1^^ its 

 width, tail % disk length. Snout 1% in head; eye Q%, 41/2 in 

 snout, 2 in interorbital ; mouth width 2l^ in head, curved; teeth 

 round disks with central conic cusp; preoral length 1% in head; 

 nostrils large, about last % in preoral length, internasal half preoral 

 length ; interorbital 3% jn head. Spiracles large, oblique, along hind 

 eye edge, little larger than eye or long as orbit. 



Small denticles on upper parts rough on snout end, rostral carti- 

 lages, interorbital, front edges of disk and pectorals ; group of small 

 tubercles at front inner portions of pectorals, row on orbital ridge 

 and vertebral row from behind eyes to dorsals, somewhat broken 

 behind center of disk and as more irregular rows along each side 

 of tail above. Males with band of 2 or 4 series of depressible spines 

 on outer portion of each pectoral. 



Dorsals subequal, each equals combined eye and spiracle, interdor- 

 sal about half first dorsal base; pectorals form broad disk, front 

 edges undulate, outer angle broadly convex, likewise hind angle; 

 ventral deeply notched. 



Blackish gray above, lateral regions of snout and pectoral edges 

 flesh colored, under surface almost entirely white. Tip of snout 

 above and below and point of tail beneath, black. Length, 480 mm. 

 (Richardson.) 



South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queens- 

 land. Waite also notes the males with the teeth acutely spinous, in 

 females nowhere spinous. Disk of male much more spiny and single 

 median vertebral spine above, little above disk center. Single spine 

 in interdorsal space. In female large patch of spines at front of 

 pectorals absent and tail with 5 rows of spines. Waite notes the 

 color of this species with scattered brown spots on the under side of 

 the disk and yellow marks at the bases of the disks and on the ventral 

 fins. Also the numerous pores on the underside of the snout and 

 head black. One from New South Wales in the Queensland Museum. 



RAJA SMIRNOVI Soldatov and Pawlenko 



Raja smimovi Soldatov and Pawlenko, Ann. Mus. Zool., Acad. Imper. Sci, 

 Petrograd, vol. 20, No. 1, p. 162, pi. 5, 1915 (type locality: Peter the Great 

 Bay ; Okhotsk Sea in lat. 58° 38' N., long. 152° 45' E., in 69 fathoms) .—Jordan 

 and HuBBS, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. Ill, 1925 (Fukui on Japan Sea; 

 Takashima). — Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. Inst., vol. 5, 

 p. 21, pi. 1, 1930 (Far East Seas).— Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. 

 Soc. China, vol. 8, p. 262, fig. 21, 1932 ( Chefoo ) .— Tabanetz, Western Branch 

 Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R. No. 13, pp. 90, 91, 1935 (note). 



Raja omiruovi Fowler, Proc, 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 501, 1930 

 (reference; typographical error). 



Raja iinoculata (not Girard) ScfHMiDT, Pisces marinum orientalium, p. 291, 

 1904 (Far East Seas). — Fowler, Proc, 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, 

 p. 502, 1930 (reference). 



