FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 389 



Biol. Surv. South Africa Rep., pt. 5, p. 5, 1924 (South Africa, 205 fathoms).— 

 Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 70, 1925 (west coast 

 South Africa, Cape Peninsula, Saldanha Bay, 100-250 fathoms). 



Raja qiiadrimaculata Bonaparte, Icon. Fauna Ital., Pesci, vol. 3, pt. 2, fasc. 3, 

 (lescr,, pi. fig. (2 males), 1833 (Italy); Cat. Metod. Pesci Europei, p. 14, 

 1846 (Mediterranean). — Fowunj. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, 

 p. 471 (Bonaparte material). 



Raja falsa vela Bonaparte. Icon. Fauna Ital., Pesci, vol. 3, pt. 2, fasc. 26, 

 descr., pi. fig. 1, 18.36 (type locality: Italy). 



Raia spviosa Yarrell. British fishes, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 574, 1841 (type locality: 

 North of Ireland; Dublin Bay). 



Raja circtilarifi ilALM, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. FOrh., Stockholm, 1857, p. 187 (Sweden). 



Snout 1% in head ; mouth width 2iV ; upper t«eth 40 to 43, below 

 42 or 43; preoral li^; internarial 21/2 to 2%; interorbital 5i/^ to 6. 



Male with patch of recurved spines on head near disk margin op- 

 posite eyes. Smaller spines or asperities before and one behind, 

 obsolete toward pectoral tips. On back medianly close behind eyes 

 2 spines, 3 before and 3 behind eye, and series of depressible ones 

 on each pectoral externally. On back of tail traces of 3 series of 

 spines. 



First dorsal length 2% to 2% in head; front ventral edge 1% to 

 134. 



South Africa. Also East Atlantic. 



2 examples, A. N. S. P. Italy. C. L. Bonaparte No. 221. Length, 330-518 mm., 

 width 225-231 mm. 



RAJA ANDAMANICA Lloyd 



Raia andamanica Lloyd, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 140, 1909 (type locality: 

 Andaman Sea, in 279 fathoms) ; lUustr. Zool. Investigator, Fishes, pi. 46, 

 fig. 2, 1900 (type).— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 352, 1913 

 (compiled). 



Head to spiracle 6I/4 in total; width 1% its length which 1% in 

 rest of body. Snout ly^ in head to spiracle, projects very slightly, 

 would form obtuse angle ; eye 5 in head to spiracle, 334 in snout, 21/3 

 in interorbital; mouth nearly transverse line, very slightly curved, 

 14 of snout; 54 rows of teeth above, 40 below, bases oval, front ones 

 worn flat, back ones with low pointed cusp; front limit of nostril 

 removed from mouth corner by space equal to mouth breadth; inter- 

 orbital 21^ in head to spiracle. Spiracle close behind eye, diameter 

 about half of eye. 



About 15 large spines over rostral cartilage, not quite reaching end 

 of disk; continuous row of 8 large thorns on supraorbital ridge, first 

 before eye, last behind eye; single row of large spines in mid-dorsal 

 line from short space behind spiracles to tail where less regular ; rest 

 of upper surface mostly, except posterolateral margins of pectorals, 

 covered with small denticles ; sides and top of tail spiny, spines larger 



