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above and below and along upper front edge, asperous. Female 

 smoother, with only lower surface of snout rough and larger thorns 

 on tail. 



First dorsal 4^% to 5 in head, second dorsal 2-% to 5 ; caudal present 

 in female only as short lobe ll^ length of first dorsal; pectorals 

 form broad subquadrangular disk, front edge undulate, angles 

 broadly convex; ventral 1 to 1% in head, long clavate compressed 

 claspers of male equal head length to second gill opening, with 

 broad deep terminal lamina. 



Largely brown above, male mottled, or more or less clouded with 

 darker, distinctly mottled on outer portions of disk tail, ventrals and 

 claspers. In addition very numerous variable small to minute pale 

 dots, specks or spots inconspicuously scattered about. In female 

 coloration of uniform appearance. Below entire surfaces smutty 

 or brownish, nearly dark as above. In male under surfaces all 

 specked, spotted or dotted over median surface of disk, with ill- 

 defined paler spots or blotches, all very irregular and sometimes 

 simulating cloudings. 



Diagnosis. — Differs from Raja henojei in its dark or soiled lower 

 surface of the body. 



U.S.N.M. No. 51296. Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 565 mm. Female. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75876. Japan? P. L. Jouy. Length, 400 mm. Male. Type. 



RAJA SMITHII Miiller and Henle 



Raja smithii Mxjixek and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 150, pi. 48, 

 fig. 1, 1841 (type locality: South Africa). — Gkay, List fish British Museum, 

 p. 112, 1851 (reference). — Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 21, 

 p. 58, 1860 (Cape of Good Hope).— Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, 

 p. 553, 1865 (copied; probably not Bosphorus specimen). — GiJNTHER, Cat. 

 Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 467, 1870 (type). 



Raja smithi Norman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 37 (lat. 33° 48' S., long. 17° 

 29'30"E., in 235-402 m.), p. 40, 1935 (South Africa; type). 



Raia smithii Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 366, 1913 (South 

 Africa). — Von Bonde and Swart, Fisher. Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa, 

 Rep. No. 3, 1922, p. 5, 1924 (compiled). — Barnard, Ann. South African 

 Mus., vol. 21, p. 66, pi. 4, fig. 4, 1925 (Cape Point, 380-475 fathoms). 



Raja eatoni Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 17, 1876 (type locality: 

 Royal Sound, Kerguelen's Land) ; Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 14, 

 1880 (Northeast Kerguelen Island). 



Raia eatonii Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 365, 1913 (copied). 



Head to spiracle 6 in total length; disk length 1% in its width, 

 tail ll^ in disk length. Snout ll^ in head to spiracle, slightly pro- 

 duced and pointed, rostral cartilages separate nearly half their 

 length; eye 6, 5 in snout, 3 in interorbital ; teeth in 28 to 30 rows 

 in jaws, not very close together, with points in both sexes; internasal 

 nearly equals distance of nostril from snout tip; iiiterorbital 1% 



