398 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Tail 1% in disk length, with caudal fold beginning under caudal 

 spine insertion and extending to tail tip; caudal spine 2 in head to 

 hind spiracle edge; pectorals form circular disk, which slightly 

 broader than long; ventrals obtuse, extend little below hind disk 

 edge. 



Above uniform. (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.) 



Giinther says "upper surface covered with minute spines with a 

 radiated base." According to Dumeril reddish gray above, white 

 below. Disk 1,117 mm., tail 865 mm. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Mouth curved ; 2 oral papillae ; skin smooth in young, medianly little rough 



with age ; grayish, with rounded, dark -edged blue or black spots lymma 



a'. Mouth straight; 5 oral papillae; skin smooth; blackish brown meyeni 



TAENIURA LYMMA (ForskM) 



Raja lymma FoBSKAii, Descript. Animal., pp. VIII, IX, 1775 (type locality: 

 (Lohaja, Red Sea ) .— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1511, 1789 (Red 

 Sea). — Walbatjm, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 533, 1792 (copied). — LAcfiptDE, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 119, pi. 4, figs. 2-3, 1798 ("isles de Praslin, 

 Cayenne, Asie, Afrique, Am^rique"). 



Raia lymnia Bonnatekbe, Tableau encyclop., Ichth., p. 5, 1788 (Red Sea). 



Raja lymna Schnetoeb, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 365, 1801 (Red Sea). 



Raia lymna Cuvieb, R^gne animal, vol. 2, p. 137, 1817 (reference). 



Trygon lymma Geoffeoy Saint-Hdlaibe, Descr. Egypte, Poiss., pi. 27, flg. 1, 1818 

 (Red Sea). 



Trygon lymna Cloquet, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 38, p. 62, 1825. 



Trigon lymna RiJppELL, Atlas Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische, p. 51, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1828 

 (Red Sea) ; Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 69, pi. 19, fig. 4, 1835 (reference). 



Taeniura lymma Muxleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 171, pi. 55, 

 fig. 3, 1841 (India, Red Sea, Timor, New Ireland).— Gray, List fish British 

 Mus., p. 124, 1851 (Red Sea, Singapore). — Bleekee, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 

 (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 78, 1852 (Batavia, Singapore) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Neder- 

 land. Indie, vol. 3, p. (54) 85 (Singapore, Batavia), p. 546, 1852 (Amboina) ; 

 Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 25, p. 82, 1853 (reference) ; Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 7, p. 228, 1854 (Macassar) ; vol. 12, p. 194 

 (Ternate), p. 218, 1856 (Mas) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Nc^erl., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 6, 

 1856 (Manado) ; vol. 1, No. 5, p. 8, 1856 (Amboina) ; vol. 2, No. 7, p. 9, 1857 

 (Amboina) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 13, p. 389, 1857 (Timor, 

 Koepang) ; vol. 15, p. 243, 1858 (Singapore) ; Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., 

 vol. 1, p. 160, 1863 (Morotail, Halmahera). — Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., 

 vol. 1, p. 619, 1865 (Red Sea, types of Trygon halgani). — Martens, Verb, 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, p. 379, 1866 (Red Sea).— GiJNTHEB, Fishes of 

 Zanzibar, p. 143, 1866 (Aden, Zanzibar, Mozambique) ; Cat. Fishes British 

 Mus., vol. 8, p. 483, 1870 (Red Sea, Zanzibar, Singapore, East Indies, 

 Ceram). — Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 241, 1871 (Red 

 Sea). — GtJNTHER, in Brenchley's Cruise of Curagoa, p. 409, 1873 (Solomon 

 Islands). — Schmextz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, p. 41, 1874 (Kandavu). — 

 Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 410, 1876 (Singapore). — 

 SoHMELTz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 64, 1879 (Kandavu). — Kaeoij, 

 Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 148, 1881 (Singapore; Sarawak). — 



