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Depth 17 to end of tail; head 3%, disk lenirth IVr^ in its width, 

 tail 11/^. Snout 1% in head, elongate triangle, ends in extended 

 slender tip; eye 714? 5 in snout, 2% in interorbital ; dentary width 

 314 in head; teeth in 36 rows in jaws, each tooth, with small low 

 cusp ; nostrils small, front valve moderate, internarial equals dentary 

 width; interorbital 3I/2, depressed concavely. Gill openings equi- 

 distant, last smallest. Spiracle rather small, much less than eye and 

 at hind edge of concavity close behind eye. 



Skin largely smooth. Two small spines before each eye, 2 large 

 ones along upper hind eye edge, large occipital one and median row 

 of 13 vertebral on tail behind disk, continued as 1 in interdorsal. 

 Broad lateral cutaneous fold each side of tail. 



First dorsal 4i/^ in head; second dorsal 5%; caudal ?; pectorals 

 broad, form broad triangular disk, front edge of each slightly undu- 

 late, hind edges convex ; ventrals moderate, with deep notch forming 

 long point in front; claspers short, depressed, rather slender and 

 pointed. 



Brown above, uniform and snout translucent each side of rostral 

 cartilages, buff in color. Entire under surface brown like back, also 

 paler or more buff on snout. 



Philippines, China, Japan, Korea. 



8290 (D. 5388). Bagatao Island Light (outer), S. 86° B., 21 miles (12°51'30" 

 N., 123''26'15" E.), between Burias and Luzon. March 4, 1909. Length, 

 303 mm., caudal tip broken off. 



RAJA JOHANNIS-DAVISI Alcock 



Rafa johannis-davisi Alcock. Cat. deep-sea Fishes Investigator, p. 21, 1899 

 (type locality: Travancore coast, in 224-284 fathoms) ; Illnstr. Zool. Inves- 

 tigator, pi. 27, figs. 2-2a, 1899.— Brauer, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exp. Valdlvia, 

 vol. 5. p. 307, 1906 (reference). 



Rain. johnt}7iis-davisi Gakman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 35.5, 1913 

 (compiled). 



Head to first gill opening 3% in total; disk length I14 its width, 

 slightly larger than tail. Snout 1% in head, slender, much exserted; 

 eye 7, 4i/^ in snout, 1% in niterorbital ; mouth width 2% in head, 

 straight; teeth obtuselj^ pointed in male, about 32 very oblique upper 

 rows, 30 below ; nostrils large, internarial 2I/2 in preoral length, which 

 1% in head; interorbital 3%. Spiracles close behind eye, oblique, 

 2/3 eye. 



Disk smooth except star-shaped prickles on ventral surface of ros- 

 tral cartilage and snout edges and adjacent part of pectorals; 2 strong 

 preorbital and 1 postorbital; very strong spine in middle of nape; 

 tail smooth except middorsal row of large spines to second dorsal base. 



First dorsal 5 in head, second dorsal slightly smaller and confluent 

 with caudal ; first dorsal base about equals interdorsal space ; pectorals 



