11. R.UA. 469 



tral fin. Upper parts with scattered round spots •£ a darker or 

 lighter colour ; greyish below, with black dots and lines. 

 Coasts of Northern Europe. 



«. Female, 50 inches long : stuffed. Sweden. Presented by Hr. A. 

 W. Malm. 



24. Raja oxyrhynchus. 



Lfeviraja, Salvian. p. 149, tab. 52 ; WUlughbij, p. 71, tab. 4. 



Raja, sp. no. 8, Artedi, Gen. p. 72, et Si/nuii. p. 101. 



Ivaja oxyrhynchus, L. Si/st. Nat. p. 89ij'; lirilnn. Ichth. 3Iass. p. 2. 



rostrata, Eisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 7, and Uiir. Merid. iii. p. LjO. 



morula, Nardo, Prodr. Ichth. Adr. in 7s/.s, 1827, pp. 470, 488. 



salviaui, Miitl. i$- Henle, p. 143 (part.) ; Dimidril, Elasmohr. 



p. 569. 

 Laeviraja oxyrhynchus, Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pvsce. 



Snout as long and pointed as in li. vomer, to which it is most 

 closely allied. The anterior profile deeply concave. Outer pectoral 

 angle somewhat pointed. Body smooth in young examples, but more 

 or less covered with minute asperities in old ones. Young examples 

 with some spines at the eyes and in the median dorsal line. Tail 

 vjith a median series of spines, and ijenerally with si^ines along the side. 

 Teeth pointed. 



Mediterranean. 



25. Raja nasuta. 

 Milll. 8f Henh, p. 150. 



No specimen is known to exist in collections, and I give here only 

 a copy of the original description contained in Solander's MS8. It 

 appears that a figure accompanied this description, which was also 

 seen by Sir J. Richardson ; but it cannot be found now in the collec- 

 tions of drawings made during Cook's voyages : — 



Raja (dentibus acutis) ventre glabro, dorso scabro, rostro acuminato, 

 aculeis ad oculos, humeros, trifariisque in cauda. 



Habitat in Oceano AustraUam aUuente j^rope Totaranui (New 

 Zealand). 



Corpus omnino rhombeum, infra liEve, albicans, supra aculeis mi- 

 nimis asperum, cinereum, parum nebulosum, marginibus anticis 

 rubicundis. Caput antice productum in rostrum acuminatum, undiquo 

 asperum, rubicundum. Spinas quinque vel sex supra orbitas oculorum ; 

 duo vel tres supra humeros ; numorosixj in cauda in tribus seriebus 

 inajqualibus dispositas : series intermedia in postica parte dorsi incipit. 

 Cauda corpore \ brevier, subtus plana in medio linca subaeuleata 

 prodita, supra convexa armata spinis trifariis de.scriplis, prope api- 

 cem instructa pinnis duabus rotundatis subasqualibus. Tinntc ven- 

 trales in lobulum obtusum desincntes, antice exgercntes processum 

 compressum, obtusum, pinnis broviorem, apicc ruberrimum. 



Denfes numerosi, acuti. 



In multis convenit cum Eaja o.i-i/rincho, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 'M5, 

 scd lUiUo tuljcrculo spinoso in dorso, itc. 



