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1913 (Makassar).— Pearson, Ceylon Adminstr. Rep. 1914, p. E4; 1915-1918, 

 pp. F9, Fll, F13, F16. — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 84, 1916 

 (Moreton Bay, Cartwriglit Point, Nor-West Islet).— Malpas, Ceylon Ad- 

 ministr. Rep., 1922, p. F6. — McGulloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland 

 Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 129, 1925 (reference). — Chabanaud, Service Oc^anogr. 

 P§clies Indo-Chine, 1* note, p. 5, 1926 (Indochina).— Norman, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1926, p. 944, text fig. B (nostril) (East Africa; Red Sea; Pa- 

 cific). — McCuLLOOH, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 5, pt. 4, p. 157, 1926 (Queens- 

 land) ; Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 10, pi. 2, fig. 29, 1927; Aus- 

 tralian Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 23, 1929 (Queensland; New South Wales). — 

 Herbe, Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 12, 1934 (Manila).— Roxas 

 and Martin, Depart. Agri. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 16, 1937 (ref- 

 erence).— StfVATTi, Index Fish. Siam, p. 4, 1937 (Gulf of Siam; Maenam 

 Canthaburi; Trat).— Fowler, List Fish, Malaya, p. 14 (246), 1938 (ref- 

 erence). 



Rhynchohatis djiddensis Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 62, 1918 (Philippines). 



RhmoMtus laevis Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 354, pi. 71, 1801 (type 

 locality: Tranquebar). — Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, vol. 2, p. 90, 



1824 (Java).— SoHLEGEL, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 15, p. 306, 

 pi. 139 (not 129 as in text), 1850 (Japan). 



Rhinobates laevis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 322, 1839 (on Walawah 

 tenlcee Russell, Fishes of Coromaudel, vol. 1, p. 6, pi. 10, 1803, Visagapatam). 



RhynchoMtus laevis MUller and Hbnle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. Ill, 

 1841 (India, Red Sea, Malabar).— Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 92, 

 1851 (Indian Seas ?, Red Sea, India). — BleekejE, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 

 (Plagiost.), vol. 24, pp. 51, 58, 1852 (Batavia and Samarang) ; (Japan), 

 vol. 25, p. 22, 1853 (Japan, East Indies, Malacca, India, Red Sea) ; (Bengal), 

 vol. 25, pp. 9, 82, 1853 (reference). — Dum^ril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, 

 p. 483, 1865 (Malabar, Pondicherry, mer des Indes, Red Sea). — Stein- 

 dachneb, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 60, p. 571, 1870 

 (Singapore). 



? Rhinobatus laevissimus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, vol. 8, p. 121, 

 1816 (name only). 



? Rhinobatis duhanieli Blainvhxe, Faune Frangaise, Poiss., p. 48, pi. 11, figs. 1-2, 



1825 (no locality). 



Rhinobates riippellii Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 1, p. 185, fig. 24, 1838 



(no locality). 

 Rhinobatus jaram Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Agric. Hist. Nat. Lyon, p. 220, 1856 



(type locality: Woodlark Island, Louisiades). 

 ? Rhinobatus thouini (not Lacepede) Kakoli, Term^sz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 



5, p. 148, 1881 (Japan). 

 Rhinobatus colunmae (not Bonaparte) Robinson, Natal Fisher. Rep., p. 50, 1919 



(Natal). 



Depth 10 to 11% to subcaudal origin; head 2l^ to 2%; <iisk width 

 11/3 to 12/5 in its length. Snout 1% in head; eye 9% to IO3/5, 7 to 71/5 

 in snout, 3% to 3% in interorbital ; dentary width 3% to 41/3 in head, 

 with short upper and lower labial fold at each angle ; teeth in 40 rows 

 in each jaw, smooth, rhomboid; nostrils large, wide, oblique, narrower 

 and slightly curved back toward mouth on inner ends, each nearly % 

 dentary width, little greater than internarial, valves feeble, with 

 short interior lobe; interorbital 314 to 3% in head, slightly depressed 



