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snout, 2l^ in interorbital ; mouth slightly waved, width 1% in pre- 

 oral length from mouth corner; teeth above, flattish, paved, in 60 

 rows; front nasal valve tubular, hind flap slightly produced and 

 recurved; hind nasal valve large, with fringes posteriorly; inter- 

 narial II/2 in space between latter and snout tip; interorbital 2^/2 

 in head to spiracle. Spiracles directly behind eye, edges entire, 

 little oblique, about equal eye. 



Row of supraorbital spines each side, before eye and on inner 

 spiracle edge; single median row of 3 spines on shoulder girdle; 

 small group of very small spines at median line of snout somewhat 

 near tip, on middle and posteriorly; 1 or 2 rows of weaker small 

 irregular spines on sides near middle above abdomen, none on 

 median line ; rather small recurved biserial spines within hind lateral 

 disk edge; 5 rows of spines on tail, supero-lateral row begins more 

 anteriorly; interdorsal with 3 spines interspersed with several 

 smaller ones between; body otherwise naked. 



Two small dorsals, subequal, interdorsal equals dorsal bases; sec- 

 ond dorsal well separated from rudimentary caudal; pectorals form 

 rhomboid disk, front edge nearly straight, outer and hinder angles 

 broadly rounded; ventrals rather shallowly notched. 



Rusty red, profusely marked with brownish, irregularly curved 

 continuous lines, forming ground color polygonal or irregular areas 

 and spots. Opposite outer disk angle on each side near median line 

 reticulated marking about equal to orbit, more or less surrounded by 

 broad area of ground color. Under surface whitish, excepting 

 median portion near snout tip, region around mouth and gill open- 

 ings and sides of abdomen to ventral insertion, these all irregularly 

 blotched and soiled darker. Length, 395 mm. (Tanaka.) 



Japan. According to Taranetz this species is a synonym of 

 Baja kenojei. 



RAJA KENOJEI Miiller and Hcnie 



Raja kenojei (Burger) Muixer and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 149, 

 pi. 47, 1841 (type locality: Southwest coast of Japan; Nagasaki market). — 

 RiCHAEDSON, Ichth. China Japan, p. 197, 1846 (Seas of China and Japan; 

 Canton). — Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonlca, Pois.s., pt. 15, p. 308, 1850 

 (Nagasaki). — Geay, List fish British Museum, p. 112, 1851 (reference). — 

 Bleekeb, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 22, 1853 (Nagasaki; 

 China); Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-N6erland., vol. 3, No. 3, p. 3 (Kioesio), p. 7 

 (Japan), p. 42, 1858; vol. 8, p. 65, 1860 (Nagasaki).— Dum^ril, Hist. Nat. 

 Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 556, 1865 (compiled). — Gijntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 

 vol. 8, p. 461, 1870 (Japan). — Peteks, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 926, 

 1880 (Ningpo). — Nystbom, Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 13, pt. 4, p. 51, 

 1887 (Nagasaki).— ? Eleba, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 620, 1895 (Luzon, 

 Manila, Samar, Borongan, Paragua, Puerta Princesa). — Ishikavs^a and 

 Matsuuea, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 60, 1897. — Jordan and 

 Snydee, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 42, 1901 (reference). — Pietschmann, 



