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Depth 15 to 17 to subcaudal origin; head 3l^ to 3%? disk width 

 ll^ to lYs in its length. Snout 1% to II/2 ii^ head, long, pointed; 

 eye 8V3 to 9i/^, 5 to 6 in snout, 21/5 to 2% in interorbital ; dentary 

 width 31/^ to 3% in head, with 2 short lower labial grooves at each 

 angle; teeth in 44 to 60 rows in each jaw, smooth, rhomboid; nostrils 

 rather large, oblique, narrowing posteriorly, each about '^ dentary 

 width; front nasal valve moderate point, inner of sections broader, 

 extend halfway from lobe to inner nostril edge and then turned 

 forward; hind nasal valve larger than outer, inner section of large 

 flap much broader or larger than outer; interorbital 31/5 to 3^/4 in 

 head, broadly depressed. Gill openings moderate, equidistant, last 

 one smallest. Spiracle close behind eye, smaller, with large fold on 

 hind edge. 



Scales very fine, smooth to touch. No spines above eye or on 

 shoulder. Row of small vertebral spines, about 36 before first 

 dorsal. 



First dorsal pointed, front edge 2i/4 to 2l^ in head; second dorsal 

 like first, front edge 2i/^ to 2l^ ; caudal 1% to 2i/^, subcaudal without 

 lobe, moderate; ventral 1% to 1% in head. 



Brown above, finely though obscurely mottled or speckled with 

 darker. Snout each side of rostral cartilages translucent or paler 

 brown. Under surfaces of body whitish. Lateral fold each side of 

 tail narrow, pale or whitish. 



Arabia, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, Korea. Known by its gen- 

 eral smooth body of nearly uniform coloration. The young are 

 marked with rather numerous though well-scattered small round 

 whitish spots. Also the nasal flaps are greatly developed, though 

 not shown by Miiller and Henle. 



U.S.N.M. No. 34546. Simoda, Japan. J. C. Brevoort. Length, 293 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 50753. Wakanouia, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 460 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 75874. Japan ? P. L. Jouy. Length, 329 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 51288. Hakata, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 870 mm, 



U.S.N.M. No. 26540. Japan. C. S. Morse. Length, 630 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 75877. Japan ? P. L. Jouy. Length, 530 mm. 



RHINOBATOS ANNANDALEI Norman 



Rhinohatus annandalei Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1926, p. 960, text fig. 



13 (rostra) (type locality: East Channel, mouth of River Hughli, 40 



fathoms). 

 Rhinohatus columnae (not Bonaparte) Dat, Fishes of India, Suppl., p. 811 



(part), 1888; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 44, 1889. — Annandale, 



Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 14, 1909 (off Hughli River mouth).— Pearson, 



Ceylon Admiuistr. Rep., 1912-13, p. E5. — Southwell, Ceylon Administr. 



Rep., 1912-13, pp. E42, E43, E45, E48, E49.— Pearson, Ceylon Administr. 



Rep., 1914, p. E14. 

 Rhinobatus columnae Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 15, 1888 



(Mangalore). 



