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South Africa. Known only from a female, possibly a sexual 

 variation of Raja micro pa Giinther, which Barnard considers it. 



The following species of the North Pacific are listed here for 

 completeness : 



RAJA ALEUTICA Gilbert 



Raja aleutica Gilbert, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 11 (1893), p. 3i)7, pi. 21, 1895 

 (type locality: Station 3257, north of Sannak Pass, Aleutian Islands, depth 

 81 fathoms). — Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 1. p. 75, 

 1896 (Unalaska). — Evi<:rmann and Goldsborough, Bull. Bur. Fisheries, 

 vol. 26 (1906), p. 230, 1907 (Alaska).— Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pacifio 

 Sci. Fisher. Inst., vol. 5, p. 22, 1930 (Far East Seas). 



Raia aleutica Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 343, 1913 (off 

 Aleutian Islands). 



Localities : Kamchatka, Aleutians, Alaska. 



RAJA BINOCULATA Girard 



Raja binoculata Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1854, p. 196 (type 

 locality: San Francisco). — Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, 

 p. 878, 1S83 (compiled).— Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, 

 pt. 1, p. 72, 1896 (Monterey to Sitka). — Schmidt, Fi.shes western seas 

 Russia, p. 291, 1904 (Korsakowsk at Saghalin). — Evermann and Golds- 

 borough, Bull. Bur. Fisheries, vol. 26 (1906), p. 229, 1907 (Alaska locali- 

 ties ) .—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 470 (Pacific 

 Grove, Calif.). — Bekg, Faune Russie, Poiss., vol. 1, p. 90, 1911 (Korsa- 

 kowsk). — Jordan, Tanaka, and Snyder, Journ. College Sci. Tokyo, vol. 33, 

 p. 28, 1913 (reference).— FowLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1920, 

 p. 400 (California materials); 1923, p. 279 (Vancouver, British Columbia; 

 Seattle, Wash.), p. 283 (San Francisco), p. 295 (La Jolla, Calif.).— 

 Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. Inst., vol. 5, p. 19, 1930 

 (Far Ea.st Seas). 



Raiot bhioculata Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4. p. 260, 1882 (Sitka; Port 

 Althorp; St. Paul; Kadiak). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, 

 p. 346, 1913 (California northward). 



Uraptera binoculata Gikard, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., Fish, pt. 10, p. 373, 1858 

 (San Francisco; Presidio, Calif.). 



Raja cooperi Girard, op. cit., p. 372 (type locality: Sand flats near the entrance 

 of Shoalwater Bay). — Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, p. 42, 

 1883 (Monterey to Sitka). 



Snout 1% to 114 in head; interorbital 4 to 4%; mouth width 2-/7 

 to 2% ; internasal 2'% to 2% ; snout tip to mandible I14 to 1% ; first 

 dorsal length 3% to 4i/4; front ventral edge 1% to Si/iol teeth above 

 40 to 44, below 36 to 43 ; eye socket II/2 to 1^/4 in interorbital. 



In male disk widest slightly after middle in its length, front pro- 

 files well undulated, and snout tip not extremely tapering. Inter- 

 orbital concave. Eye shorter than spiracle. Mouth little curved. 

 Teeth acute. Body smooth above, except minute asperities on ros- 

 tral cartilages, preocular, vertebral column just after pharynx and 

 opposite ventral bases, and along front pectoral margins and lower 

 snout surface. Median series of spines on back begins over hind 



