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undulate, outer and hind angles obtusely rounded; ventrals notched, 

 hind section broad. 



Above brown, with rounded darker and lighter ill-defined spots. 

 Yellowish ocellus, little larger than orbit, edged with blackish, on 

 each side of median line in male. Length, 445 mm. (Giinther.) 



Kerguelen Island. Only known from the types, 2 adults and 3 

 young, obtained by the Challenger Expedition. 



RAJA PLUTONIA Garman 



Raia plutonia Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, p. 236, 1881 (type locality: 

 Off South Carolina) ; Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 335, pi. 18, fig, 1, 

 1913 (lat. 31°o7' N., long. 78°18'35" W., in 333 fathoms).— Baenabd, Ann. 

 South African Mus., vol. 21, p. 68, 1925 (off Cape Point and south of 

 Agulhas Bank, 450-560 fathoms). 



Raia alialinea VonBonde and Swart, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa Rep., pt 

 5, p. 6, pi. 20, fig. 1, 1923 (type locality: South Africa, in 280-600 fathoms). 



Head to spiracle 8 in total length; disk width l^jf in its length, 

 which 1% in rest of body. Snout 1% in head to spiracle, angle 

 broadly obtuse; eye 3 in head to spiracle, 2% in snout, 2 in inter- 

 orbital; mouth slightly undulate, width little less than half preoral 

 length ; teeth in numerous rows, small, slightly spinose ; outer nostril 

 edges fringed, flaps over mouth corners slight and unf ringed ; inter- 

 orbital 11/^ in head to spiracle, flat. Spiracle close behind eye, 

 oblique, length ly^ in eye. 



Disk and sides of tail covered with spines; 2 spines before and 2 

 or 3 larger behind orbit; median series of large spines behind head 

 extend on tail to first dorsal; each shoulder with group of 2 or 3 

 spines ; no spines between dorsals ; under surface smooth. 



Second dorsal much larger than first, about 2 in snout, interdorsal 

 narrow notch; caudal shorter than first dorsal; pectorals form sub- 

 circular disk, front margins slightly undulate, outer angles and hind 

 margins very rounded and arclike. 



Brown to light brown above, with irregular transverse white retic- 

 ulations, on tail forming irregular white blotches. Under surface 

 cream colored. Length, 165 mm. (Von Bonde and Swart.) 



South Africa. Also off east coast of North America in the At- 

 lantic. I follow Barnard in placing Eaia albalinea with this species. 

 He gives its length to 250 mm. 



RAJA SIBOGAE Weber 



Raja sibogae Webee, Siboga Exped., vol. 57, Fische, p. 600, fig. 122, 1913 (type 

 locality: Bali Sea, in 289 m.).— Fowleb, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. 

 Congr., Java, p. 501, 1930 (reference). 



Head to spiracle 6% in total length ; disk length I14 in its width, 

 1% in tail. Snout to orbit 1% in head to spiracle, little exserted in 



