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shorter than disk; pectorals form broad disk, length 1% its width, 

 front edges little undulate, hind edges concave, outer angles 

 triangular. 



Yellowish olive above, with blue transverse bars on head and 

 across disk. Tail black. Lower surfaces white. Total length, 775 

 mm. (Waite.) 



New Zealand. 



HOLORHINUS TOBIJEI (Bleeker) 



Myliobatis tobijei Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, p. 130, 

 1857 (type locality: Nagasaki) ; Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 115, 

 1874 (Chinese drawing). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 410, 

 1876 (Yokohama). — Joedan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 

 338, 1900 (Tokyo); Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 43, 1901 (Nagasaki; 

 Yokohama). — Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 663, 

 1903 (Tokyo, Hakodate, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Hakata, Nagasaki).— Gah- 

 MAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 433, 1913 (Japan).— Mori, Journ. 

 Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, No. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan and Mokpo, Korea). — 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 507, 1930 (Japan).— 

 Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., vol. 11, p. 15, 1931 

 (Nagasaki). — Lin, Sci. Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., ser. B, vol. 1, p. 172, 

 pi. 3, fig. 10 (teeth), 1932 (Tsingtao).— Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. 

 Sci. Soc. China, vol. 8, p. 277, fig. 27, 1932 ( Chef oo ) .—Tan aka, Jap. 

 Fish. Life Colours, No. 35, 1933.— Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, 

 vol. 9, p. 113, 1933 (Ningpo). 



AetoMtis iobijei Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 489, 1912 (Naha, 

 Okinawa). — Izuka and Matsuuka, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Verte- 

 brata, p. 186, 1920 (Rikuzen).— Taranetz, Bv;11. Pacific Sci. Inst. Fisher. 

 Oceanogr., vol. 11, p. 52, 1937. 



Myliobates aquila (not Linnaeus) Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, 

 Poiss., pt. 310, pi. 142, 1850 (Japan). 



Myliobatis aquila Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 22, 

 1853 (Japan).— GtiNTiiER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 63, 1880 

 (Yokohama). — Pietschmann, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 117, pt. 1, p. 638, 1908 (Japan). 



Myliobatis cornuta GDnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 490, 1870 (type 

 locality: Japan). — Ishikawa and Matsuuka, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. 

 Tokyo, p. 60, 1897. 



Myliobatis cornuttis Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 43, 1901 

 ("Japan"). 



Depth 5y2 to 5% in disk length as measured to hind pectoral edge ; 

 head 3 to 3% ; disk length !■% to 2 in its width, 2 in tail. Snout 1% 

 to 1% in head; eye 6 to 7i/2, 314 to 434 in snout, 51/4 to 514 in inter- 

 orbital; dentary width 2i/^ to 2% in head; teeth with broad median 

 row 4 to 6 times wide as deep and 3 rows of small teeth each side; 

 upper lip with fringed edge, lower with pleats; nostrils each simple 

 deep pit, internarial width ly^ in dentary width; interorbital IV5 

 to 114 in head, level, with wide median depression due to broad 

 fontanel. Gill openings equidistant, last shortest. Spiracle twice 

 eye, large, deep, open laterally. 



