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Narke capensis Gakman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 313, 1913 (Cape of 

 Good Hope; Madagascar). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, no. 

 2, p. 161, 1914. — VonBonde and Swart, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa 

 Rep., pt. 3, 1922, p. 15, 1924 (compiled).— Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., 

 vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 92, pi. 5, fig. 3, 1925. 



Head to spiracle 7% total length. Snout li/e in head to spiracle; 

 eye 5I/2, 3 in interorbital, which 1% in head to spiracle. Spiracle 

 close behind eye, little larger. 



Dorsal origin close behind hind basal ventral edge, fin length 1% 

 in head to spiracle; caudal 4 in rest of body; pectorals form some- 

 what broadly elliptical disk, length little greater than rest of body, 

 width about I^q its length; ventral about 4% in total, obtuse; vent 

 nearer end of tail than front edge of body. 



Above variably uniform dark brown above. Lower surfaces whit- 

 ish. Reaches 280 mm. (Barnard.) 



South Africa, Natal, Madagascar. According to Garman invari- 

 ably spotted white above and brown below. 



NARKE DIPTERYGIA (Schneider) 



Rhinohatus dipterygia Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 359, 1801 (type locality: 

 Tranquebar). 



Narcobatus dipterygius Blainvtlle, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, vol. 8, 1816, p. 

 121 (name only). 



Torpedo dipterygia Olfers, Torpedo, p. 25, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1831. 



Narcine dipterygia Hesstlb, tJber Narcine, p. 38, 1834. 



Astrape dipterygia Mijlleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 131, 1841 

 (Tranquebar). — Cantor, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1401, 1849 

 (Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Lancavy Islands, Singapore). — Gray, List fish 

 British Museum, p. 103, 1851 (reference). — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Scl., 

 vol. 17, p. 149, 1851.— DuMERiL, Rev. Zool. ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 281, 1852 (refer- 

 ence). — Bl£eker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24. p. 50, 1852 

 (Singapore, Pinang) ; (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 82, 1853 (reference). — Dum^bil, 

 Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 523, 1865 ( Malacca ) .—Day, Fishes of Mala- 

 bar, p. 523, 1865 (Malacca). — GIjntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 

 454, 1870 (Pinang, Canton). — Mabtens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 

 409, 1876 (Yokohama).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 734, pi. 192, fig. 4, 

 1878 (Madras) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 46, fig. 19, 1889.— 

 Babtm;tt, Sarawak Gazette, vol. 26, no. 366, p. 134, 1896 (Oya and Mora- 

 tabas). — ISHiKAWA and Matstjitba, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 60, 

 1897.— Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 46, pi. 3a, fig. 6, 1909 (off 

 Orissa and Bengal Bay). — Zugmayek, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. 

 Kl., vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Mekran).— Pillay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 vol. 33, p. 353, 1929 (Travancore). — Tibant, Service Oc^anogr. P§ches Indo- 

 Chine, 6^ note, p. 75, 1929 (Cochinchina). — Sitvatti, Index Fish. Siam, p. 4, 

 1937 (Pattani). 



Astrappe dipterygia Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1914, p. E4 (error). 



Narke dipterygia Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 313, 1913 (Pinang, 

 Tranquebar, Malay Peninsula, Lancavy Islands, Malacca, Hindostan, Can- 

 ton).— Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 32, p. 253, 1927 (Bom- 

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



