384 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



broad triangular point; orbit 31/3, 2]/^ in snout, IVg in interorbital ; 

 middle of jaws arched, 36 rows of teeth above, and 28 below, conic; 

 interorbital li/^ in snout to orbit, concave. Spiracles little inclined, 

 close behind orbit, half of orbit. 



Upper surface of disk covered with small spines, absent above 

 ventrals and each side of back posteriorly, also outer broad pectoral 

 borders; row of larger thorns along each inner edge of orbit; row 

 of 5 vertebral thorns medially over branchial region; at front of 

 each pectoral band of large thorns, also oval group on outer postero- 

 median portion of each pectoral, all these areas nearly twice length 

 of orbit ; tail above with many irregular rows of thorns ; entire lower 

 surface smooth. 



Dorsals and caudal continuous basally, former two separated by 

 narrow notch, subequal, 1% in snout to orbit; caudal low fold but 

 little over half dorsal; pectorals form rhomboidal disk, front edges 

 undulate, outer and hind angles broadly convex. 



Brown above, with indistinct, darker, rounded blotches. Under 

 surface white. Length, 314 mm. (Weber.) 



Bali Sea. Described from a male said to suggest Baia andamardca 

 Lloyd, known from a female. 



RAJA LINTEA Fries 



Raja lintea Fries, Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 1838, p. 154 (type locality: 



Sweden ) . 

 Raia lintea Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 36, p. 329, 1913 (northern 



Europe). — BARNAun, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 72, 1925 



(west coast off Cape Peninsula, in 200-3(X) fathoms). 



Width only little greater than body length, equals space from snout 

 end not quite to end of ventrals. Snout produced, pointed, tip acute, 

 front margin slightly undulate; rostral cartilages united about half 

 their length; eye less than interorbital, which 4 in snout; teeth in 

 female in 60 rows with very small points; internasal twice distance 

 of nostril from snout tip. 



Upper surface with stellate-rooted asperities and small hooked 

 spines over snout, front edges and hind parts of pectoral; groups of 

 slightly larger spines in front of and behind orbits, on and before 

 suprascapular region and in about 5 irregular rows down back, con- 

 tinued along tail to dorsal fin; sides of tail closely set with smaller 

 spines ; lower surface with minute asperities on snout. 



Outer pectoral angle broadly rounded, hind edge convex. 



Uniform brownish gray, light beneath. Length, 740 mm. (Bar- 

 nard.) 



West coast of South Africa. Also North Atlantic. Barnard's 

 record on a single female. 



