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Skin everywhere smooth. 



First dorsal with about first fourth its base over hind base of 

 ventral, length 1% to 1% in head ; second dorsal 21/2 to 2% ; caudal 

 1, hind edge obliquely rounded ; pectorals form orbicular disk, length 

 ly^ to 11/4 in its wddth, broadly rounded ; tail 1 to 1% in disk length ; 

 ventral length 4 to 4%. 



Above cinnamon, mostly uniform. Eyes gray. Fins like back. 

 Under surface of body pale brownish to creamy white, sometimes 

 outer edges of pectorals and ventrals narrowly cinnamon. 



Though native in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, also 

 reported from South Africa. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 426-439, 461-469. Italy. C. L. Bonaparte No. 234. Dr. T. B. 

 Wilson. Length, 193 to 250 mm. Cotypes of Torpedo noMliana. Also jaws 

 220 mm. wide of large example. 17 are males. 



TORPEDO TOKIONIS (Tanaka) 



Tetronarcine tokionis Tanaka, Journ. College. Sci. Tokyo, vol. 23, p. 2, text 



fig. (outline), 1908 (type locality: Sagami Bay). 

 Narcacion tokionis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 312, 1913 



(copied). 

 Torpedo tokionis Fowi>ee, Proc. 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 500, 



1930 (reference). 



Head to hind spiracle edge 8% in total. Snout 1% in head to hind 

 spiracle edge; eye small, orbit 3^5 in head, 2 in snout, li/o in inter- 

 orbital; mouth small, width slightly greater than its distance from 

 snout tip; teeth in jaws in several rows, each tooth with sharp point; 

 front nasal valves confluent into quadrangular lobe; interorbital 2 

 in head to hind spiracle edge. Spiracles oblong, less their longi- 

 tudinal diameter or less twice eye length behind eye, edge entire, not 

 fringed. 



Skin smooth. 



First dorsal origin before hind ventral end, less than half dorsal 

 base opposite ventral, fin length equals head to hind spiracle edge; 

 second dorsal 1% ; caudal 5% in rest of body, hind edge emarginate ; 

 pectorals form rounded disk, length slightly greater than tail, or IYq 

 in its own width ; ventrals separate, obtuse. 



Brown above, uniform. Below whitish, narrowly brown along 

 margins. Length, 1136 mm. (Tanaka.) 



Japan. 



Genus NARKE Kaup 



Narke Kaup, Isis, vol. 18, p. 88, 1826. (Type, Raja capensis Gmelin, monotypic.) 

 Astrape MiJiiEB and Henle, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1837, p. 117. (Atypic; 



Arch. Naturg., 1837, p. 400. Type, Raja capensis Gmelin, designated by 



Jordan, Genera of Fishes, vol. 2, p. 193, 1919.) 

 Bengalichthys Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 46, 1909. (Type, Ben- 



galichthys impennis Annandale, monotypic.) 



