466 KAJIDiE. 



a. Adult male, 4 feet long : stuffed. 



h-c. Hulf-grown male and female : stuffed. Plymouth. Presented 

 by Lieut. H. F. Speuce, R.N. 



d. Young male. Lyme Itegis. Presented by the Earl of Ennis- 



killen. 



e. Half-grown : skin. English coast. From Mr. Yarrell's Col- 



lection. 



f. Young female. England. 



18. Eaja lintea. 



Raja lintea, Fries, Vet. Akad. Ilamll. 1838, p. 154; 3IuU. Sf He^ih, 

 p. 147 ; Niks. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 7.39 ; Krmjcr, Damn. Fisk. iii. 

 p. 1005 ; Malm, (Ffv. Vet. Ak. Fork. 1857, p. 193 ; Dumeril, Elas- 

 mubr. p. 557 (synon. part.). 



Snout long, produced, pointed, the width of the interorbital space 

 being one-third of the distance of the eye from the end of the snout. 

 The anterior profile (from the snout to the angle of the pectoral fin) 

 is hut slighthj entanjinate, and not undidated. Teeth somewhat 

 pointed. The outer pectoral angle is nearly a right one. Body 

 smooth, only a few small, stellate ossifications along the front margin 

 of the disk. Lower side entirely smooth. A median series ofdistincth/ 

 ribbed sj^ines on the tail, imperfectly continued on the back ; sides of 

 the tail with a series of smaller spines. Three spines on each 

 shoulder, and one in front and behind the eye. The width of the 

 disk is equal to the distance from the end of the snout to the hind 

 margin of the ventral fin. Coloration uniform. 



Coasts of Northern Europe. 



a. Female, 44 inches long : stuffed. Sweden. Presented by Hr. A. 

 W, Malm. 



19. Raja maroccana. 



Bl. Sch7i. p. 307 ; Miill. i^- Ilenle, p. loO, pi. 48. fig. 2 ; Dumdril, Ehs- 

 mohr. p. 559. 



Snout long, produced, pointed, the width of the interorbital space 

 being nearly two-sevenths of the distance of the eye from the end of 

 the snout. The anterior profile (from the snout to the angle of the 

 pectoral) is slightly emarginate and undulated. Teeth conical and 

 pointed in the male, in 41 series in the upper jaw. The outer pec- 

 toral angle is a right one. Body with minute asperities along the 

 middle of the back and the margins of the disk ; lower side smooth, 

 except the snout, which is rough. A series of sj^ines along the 

 superciliary marcjin ; two or three spines in the median line of the 

 shoulder. Tail with a median series of spines, ulterncttehj Jarger and 

 smaller, with the base deeply rilibed : sides of the tail with a series 

 of spines. Coloration uniform. 



^Marocco? North America. 



ft. Adult male. Old Collection. 



Lo'virajn hramantc, Sassi, Nuov. Annal. Sc. nat. Bologn. 1846, vi. 

 p. 386 ; and Cancstrini, Mem. Accad. Torin. xxi. 1865, p. 361, pi. 1. 



