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valves in low fold, reach outer side of nostril, extend back from 

 middle in wider fold toward mouth angle. Spiracles much larger 

 than eyes, close behind orbits, without papillae on edges. 



Dorsals about equal, upper angles rounded; first dorsal origin 

 above ends of ventral bases, base nearly twice interdorsal; caudal 

 medium, angles rounded ; subcaudal rather deep, hind edge obliquely 

 convex. 



Brown, with smaller and larger spots of darker. (Garman.) 

 India, Pinang, East Indies. Dumeril gives the length as 330 mm. 

 and Cantor as 455 mm. 



NARCINE TIMLEI (Schneider) 



Raja timlei Schneidee, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 359, 1801 (type locality: Tran- 

 quebar). 



Torpedo timlei Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. F^russac, vol. 2, p. 90, 1824 

 (Java).— Olfees, Torpedo, p. 22, 1S31. 



Narcine timlei Henle, Tiber Narcine, p. 34, pi. 2, fig. 1-la, 1834 (Trauquebar). — 

 MtJULEB and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 130, 1841 (India, Ja- 

 pan). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 196, 1846 (Indian Ocean; Sea 

 of Japan). — Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 102, 1851 (China Seas). — 

 Dumeril, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 275, 1S52 (Bengal). — Bleekek, 

 Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost), vol. 24, p. 50, 18.52 (Java; Celebes); 

 Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol 4, p. 512, 1853 (Batavia, Java) ; vol. 

 20, pp. 217, 447, 185&-60 (Singapore).— Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 

 1, p. 519, 1865 (Bengal; type of Torpedo maorura). — Kneir, Reise Novara, 

 Fische, p. 417, 1865 (Ceylon; Madras). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., 

 vol. 8, p. 452, 1870 (compiled). — Bleekeb, Nederland Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, 

 p. 115, 1874 (Chinese drawing).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 733, 1878.— 

 Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 16, 1888 (Madras). — Day, 

 Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 45, 1889. — Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 193, 1904 (Singapore). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. 

 Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 10, p. 2, 1905 (Hong Kong). — Annandale, Mem. 

 Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 44, pi. 3a, figs. 1 (mouth), la (teeth), 1909 (Puro, 

 Orissa coast). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1912-13, p. E5. — Gaeman, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 300, pi. 61, fig. 6 (young), 1913 (China, 

 East Indies, Japan). — Southwell, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1912-13, p. 

 E49. — Pearson, Ceylon Adminstr. Rep., 1915-18, pp. F10-F12.— CHABANAtrD, 

 Service Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 1" Note, p. 6, 1926 (Tonkin). — Pillay, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 353, 1929 (Travancore).— Tirant, 

 Service Oceanogr. Peches, Indo-Chine, 6^ Note, p. 74, 1929 (Cochin China). — 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 500, 1930 (reference) ; 

 Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 137, 1930 (compiled). — Hardenbeeg, Treubia, vol. 

 15, livr. 2, p. 131, 1935 (Bagan Api Api; Batavia).— Fowler, List Fish. 

 Malaya, p. 15, 1938 (reference). 



Narcina timlei Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 10, pi. 1, 1905 

 (error). 



Narcine microphthalma (Valenciennes) Dumeril, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, 

 p. 275, 1852 (type locality: Malabar coast, Pondicherry Bay), 



Narcine macrura (Valenciennes) Dumeril, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 277, 

 1852 (type locality: Sea of the Indies). 



