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mens reported from Java by Bean and Weed I have examined the 

 two listed below. I do not find that their Mylwhatis milvus^ identi- 

 fied as the larger specimen, is different. The smaller, though with 

 more or less apparent uniform disk, shows traces of a few of the gray 

 horizontal lines anteriorly as well as the posterior spots. 



U.S.N.M. No. 72483. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 840 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72484. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 1,540 mm. 



Genus MYLIOBATIS Geofifroy Saint-Hilaire 



Myliobatis Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Descript. Egypte, Pois.s., vol. 1, pi. 26, 1809. 



(Type, Mi/lioJ)atis hovina Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, designated by Fowler, Geol. 



Surv. New Jersey Bull. 4, p. 84, 1911.) 

 Pteromylaeus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 437, 1913. (Type, 



Myliohatis asperrmms Jordan and Evermann.) 



Head rather long. Tail long, slender, with serrated spine behind 

 dorsal. Snout somewhat narrowed forward. Teeth tessellate, in 7 

 rows as very wide median row and each side with 3 very narrow rows. 

 Spiracles open upward. Pectorals falciform, not continuous with 

 rostral fins at each side of head. Ventrals elongate, narrow. 



Panama, Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Africa, Ad- 

 miralty Islands. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a^. Dorsal origin above ends of ventral bases ; uniform brown, young with 7 or 

 8 pale transverse streaks bovina 



a'. Dorsal origin near ends of pectoral bases ; greenish gray with irregular whitish 

 spots punctatus 



MYLIOBATIS BOVINA Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 



Myliohatis lovina Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Descr. Egypte, Poiss., vol. 1, pi. 26, 



fig. 1, 1809: p. 323, 1827 (type locality: Egypt).— Gijnther, Cat. Fishes 



British Museum, vol. 8, p. 490, 1870 (Madeira). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, p. 475 (Bonaparte material). 

 Pteromylaeus lovina Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 439, 1913 



(Mediterranean and neighboring Atlantic). 

 Pteromylaeus tovinus Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 83, 



1925 (Agulhas Bank). 

 Myliobatis aquila (not Linnaeus) Bonaparte, Icon. Fauna Ital., Pesci., pt. 2, 



fasc. 2, descr., pi., fig., 1833 (Italy). 

 Myliobates episcopus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Canaries, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 98, 



pi. 24, 1836-44 (type locality: Canary Islands; Algiers). 

 Myliobatis bonaparti Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 635, 1865 (type 



locality: Mediterranean; Algeria; types of Myliobates episcopus). 



Head large. Snout 1-% in head, extended, slender, tip blunt; 

 mouth width 3 in head; teeth in 7 rows, median 6 to 8 times wider 

 than long, outer narrow; internasal 4% in head, front nasal valves 

 confluent; preoral length 1%. Spiracle large, scarcely visible as 

 viewed above. 



