FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 371 



First dorsal 3 in head to spiracle, second dorsal 3I/2, or I14 in inter- 

 dorsal; caudal 2I/3 in head to spiracle; pectorals form broad 

 rhomboid disk, front edges slightly undulate, outer angles broadly 

 rounded, hind edges very slightly convex and hind angles broadly 

 convex ; ventrals deeply notched. 



Brown above, lighter bluish to greenish beneath. Back and all 

 upper surface, except tail and snout, densely covered with small black 

 specks about size of coffee grains. Snout translucent, upper surface 

 appearing whitish in reflected light. Numerous pores on under side 

 of snout and sides of mouth each surrounded with black circle. 

 Tail brownish above, paler Avith some dusky underneath. Length, 

 370 mm. (Jordan and Kichardson.) 



Formosa. 



RAJA BARNARDI Norman 



Raja barnardi Nobman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 43, fig. 14, 1935 (type local- 

 ity: Lat. 34° S., long. 17°58' E., in 173-210 m., off Capetown). 



Disk little broader than long, width scarcel}^ % total length ; front 

 margins little undulated; outer angles smoothly rounded. Vent 

 little nearer to snout tip than to end of tail. Snout with rather 

 short, obtuse, triangular projection, its length 41^ in disk width. 

 Interorbital equals eye; combined eye and spiracle 2% in snout. 

 Internarial width 2I/3 in preoral length of snout. Teeth more or 

 less pointed in middle of jaws; rows 40 to 42. 



Upper surface of disk and tail mainly smooth, but large patch of 

 spinules on front part of each pectoral, and some scattered spinules 

 on snout, interorbital, middle of back and hind parts of pectorals; 

 2 preocular and 4 postocular spines; 3 median nuchal spines, with 

 smaller one on each side; single median spine above suprascapulary 

 region; 2 scapular spines; 24 median spines extending from just be- 

 hind suprascapulary region to first dorsal; front part of tail with 

 somewhat irregular series of spines on each side; edges of tail with 

 numerous small spines. Lower surface quite smooth except at edges 

 of snout. 



Upper surface brownish, with traces of small pale spots. Lower 

 surface uniformly pale. 



Length, 375 mm., 210 mm. across disk. (Norman.) 



South Africa. 



RAJA KATSUKII Tanaka 



Raja katsukii Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 35, p. 662, pi. 154, figs. 426-428, 

 1927 (type locality: West coast Province Mutsu, Japan). — Fowleb, Proc. 

 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 501, 1930 (compiled). 



Head to spiracle 5i/^ in total; disk length ly^ in its width, tail 

 ly^ in disk length. Snout 1% in head to spirack, slightly produced 

 with rather bluntly pointed tip; eye 54^^ in head to spiracle, 4% in 



