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SvvAET, Fishes Marine Surv. Soutli Africa, Spec. Rep. No. 5, p. 4, 1923 (off 

 Natal, 146-160 fathoms). 



Raia rhizacanthus Regan, Ann. Natal Gov. Mus., vol. 1, p. 3, pi. 2, 1906 [type 

 locality: Natal coast, in 40 fathoms (young)] ; 1908, p. 242 (Bird Island).— 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 286, 1916 (ref- 

 erence). — VoN BoNDE and Swabt, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa, Rep., 

 pt. 3, 1922, p. 5, 1924 (compiled). 



Raja rhizacanthus Norman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 40, 1935 (Kalk Bay, False 

 Bay, Agulhas Bank, off Cape St. Blaize; Bird I., Natal). 



Raja bonae-speiensis Fowlek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 468 

 (on Miiller and Henle; specific name lapsus for bonae-spei) . 



Raia ocellifera (part) Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 365, 1913 

 (on Miiller and Henle, and Regan). 



Snout 1^3 to 15i3 in head; mouth width 1% to 2%; preoral length 

 12/7 to 1% ?; internarial 1% to 2%; orbit 1 to 2 ? in interorbital ; 

 upper teeth 32 to 44, lower 33 to 41 ; interorbital 3l^ to 4i/^ in head. 



Males have but few spinous bucklers above or below and quite rough, 

 one female with 79 spiny bucklers below. Spines on tail of male not 

 developed to any extent anteriorly though on females extending to 

 dorsal. Females quite rough. Several young examples differ from 

 adults in having only medial vertebral tail and back spines. Also 

 single small spine on each side of back medially. Superciliary spines 

 usually 2 in front, behind usually 1, also pair between spiracles. Body 

 above entirely rough, with fine asperities. 



First dorsal length 1% to 3% ? in head; front ventral edge 1% 

 to l%o. 



One female mottled with deeper brown blotches or spots than body 

 color above. 



South Africa, Natal, Mauritius ? 



7 examples. A.N.S.P. Italy. C. L. Bonaparte. Nos. 80, 83, 231, 227. Length, 

 287 to 750 mm., width 175 to 517 mm. 



RAJA TENGU Jordan and Fowler 



Raja tengu Jordan and Fowleb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 654, fig. 8, 

 1903 (type locality: Matsushima Bay; Aomori ; Hakodate). — Jordan and 

 HuBBS, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 110, 1925 (description in key). — 

 F0WLB31, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 501, 1930 (reference). 



Raia pulchra Lin, Sci. Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., ser. B, vol. 1, p. 162, figs. 

 10-lOa, 1982 (type locality: Tsingtao). 



Depth 20 to end of tail; head 3%; disk length 1% its width, tail 

 less than disk. Snout 1% in head, long, slender; eye 9, 8 in snout, 

 2% in interorbital; dentary width 3i^ in head; teeth in 28 rows in 

 jaws, small, each with low cusp or keel; nostrils small, front nasal 

 valve small, twice size of inner, internarial equals dentary width; 

 interorbital 3^/4 in head, depressed. Gill openings small, subequal, 

 equidistant. Spiracle large as eye and close behind. 



