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p. 206, pi. 20, 1895 (abnormality).— Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis Exp., p. 39, 



1898 (north to Manning Bight, New South Wales) ; Mem. New South Wales 



Nat. Club, no. 2, p. 9, 1904. — Zietz, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 



32, p. 292, 1908.— McCuLi.ocH, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 46, pt. 



4, pi. 38, figs. 1-2, 1921.— Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., 



Java, p. 499, 1930 (reference). 

 Trpgonorrhina fasciata MtlLLER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, pi. 



43, 1841.— Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 233, 1908.— McCtjlloch, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. New South Wales, vol. 46, pt. 4, p. 460, 1921 (off Sandon Bluff and Port 



Jackson).— Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 27, fig. 39, 1921.— 



McCxJLLOCH, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 10, pi. 2, fig. 31a, 1927. 

 Trigonorhina fasciata Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 98, 1851 (South 



Australia). 

 Trigonorrhina fasciata Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 287, 1913 



(Australia and Tasmania). 

 FRhinohatus fasciatus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, vol. 8, p. 121, 1816 



(name only). 

 Raja fasciata (Banks) Mtxller and Henle, Syst, Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 124, 



1841 (name in .synonymy). 

 Trygorrhina fasciata guanerius Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, p. 327, 



1932 (type locality: Glenclg, South Australia; compared with Melbourne, 



Port Jackson, and New South Wales materials). 



Depth 8^3 to 9% to subcaudal origin; head 3% to 4; disk width 

 li/io to 11/5 in its length. Snout 1% to 1% in head; eye 6% to 81/3, 

 4 to 5^/0 in snout, 3 to 4I/5 in interorbital ; dentary width 2% to 2% 

 in head, with short groove at each mouth angle ; teeth in 50 rows in 

 jaws, smooth, rhombic; nostrils moderate, anterior valves connected 

 across internarial space concealing posterior valves besides greater 

 part of each nostril, reaching mouth; internarial little wider than 

 dentary width; interorbital 2i/r, to 21^ in head, depressed concavely 

 medially. Gill openings equidistant, small, short, last shortest. 

 Spiracle nearly large as eye, close behind eyeball as deep pit. 



Several small tubercles before and above eye, also several above 

 spiracle; row of 16 + 1 to 3 vertebral eubtrcles; 2 groups of 2 or 2 

 or 3 on each shoulder. 



First dorsal higher than long, front edge 9,y^ to 2% in head; 

 second dorsal similar, 2 to 2% in head ; caudal li/^, without subcaudal 

 lobe; pectoral rather large; ventral length 1% to 1% in head. 



Light or dark brown, with transverse rib like grayer bands on 

 disk, several of which may cross back. All bands defined by dark 

 bordering lines, much broader in young. With age dark bordering 

 bands may break as bars or bands on back. Lower surface pale or 

 uniform. 



West Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, New Zealand. 



U.S.N.M. No. 40031. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 218 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 84373. New South Wales. Endcaf>our collection. Length, 395 



mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 29014. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 960 mm. 



