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with free erect lobe posteriorly, second pointed one overhangs upper 

 lip ; internasal valve subquadrangular, angles rounded, hind edge with 

 median incision with small fleshy tubercle; internasal equals half 

 preoral length; interorbital Ij'V iii head to hind spiracle edge. 

 Spiracle subovate, oblique, edges entire, interspiracle width 2i/^ in 

 head to hind spiracle edge. 



Skin smooth. Lateral line well defined each side of back. 



First dorsal with middle of base over hind basal ventral edge, fin 

 length ll^ in head to hind spiracle edge; second dorsal 2; caudal 

 4l^ in rest of body; pectorals form subcircular disk, length IV5 its 

 width, tail 1% in disk length ; ventral 5 in total length, obtuse. 



Chocolate-brown above, white below. Width, 470 mm. (McCul- 

 loch.) 



South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, New Zealand. 

 Reaches 716 mm. according to McCuUoch. Of Notastrape niacneilli 

 Whitley says: "The Australian species ... is chocolate brown in 

 colour above and white below, whereas the New Zealand type is 

 uniform greyish-black above and has a more prominent snout, and 

 disk much broader anteriorly." 



TORPEDO NOBILIANA Bonaparte 



Torpedo noMliana Bonaparte, Icon. Fauna Ital. Pesci, vol. 3, pt. 2, fasc. 12 



(descr., pi.), 1.S35 (type locality: Italy) ; Cat. Metod. Pesci Europei, p. 14, 



1846 (Mediterranean). 

 Tetronarce nobiliana Fowleb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scl, Philadelphia, 1901, p. 336 



(types). 

 Narcobatus nohiUana Fowlek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 472 



(types). 

 Narcobatus nobilianus Baenakd, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, 



p. 89, 1925 (compiled). 

 Nar-cacion nobiUauus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 310, pi. 25, 



fig. pi. 61, figs. 4-5, 1913 (young). — Norman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 37, 



1935 (South Africa). 

 Torpedo hebetams Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 2, p. 195, 1841 (type lo- 

 cality: Madeira). — Von Bonde and Swart, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa 



Rep., pt. 3, 1922, p. 15, 1924 (reference). 

 Torpedo occidentalis Storbr, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, vol. 45, p. 166, pi. 3, 1843 



(type locality: Wellfleet, Mass.). 

 Torpedo nigra Gxiechenot, Exjjlor. Alg^>rie, Poiss., p. 131, pi. 8, 1850 (type 



locality: Algeria). 



Depth 10 to 101/4 to subcaudal origin; head to first gill opening 

 414 to 41/3. Snout end to eye 2 to 2% in head ; eye 6 to 71/2, 3 to Z% 

 in snout, 3 to 314 hi interorbital; mouth width 214 to 2% in, head, 

 slight groove at each angle; teeth in 22 to 50 rows above, 20 to 45 

 below, cusps short, conic, acute, erect ; internarial 3% to 3i^ in head ; 

 interorbital 2i/^ to 2%, nearly level. Spiracle long as eye, interspace 

 slightly greater than interorbital, margins entire. Median gill 

 openings largest, about 1% times eye. 



