3. UUIiNOBATUS. 4-41 



c. Juws of a large example. Seychelles. Presented by Swinburne 



Ward, Esq. 

 (/. Jaws of a lar^e example. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 e. Jaws of a large example. 



2. Rhyncliobatus djeddensis. 



Khinobatus, Duhamel, Pesches, ii. pi. 15. figs. 1 & 2. 



liiija djiddensis, Forsk. Ucscr. Anivi. p. 18. 



Itaic bokhat, Lacep. i. p. lo9. 



Kaie iliinobate, Lacep. i. p. 145, pi. G. lig. 3. 



liliinobatus ke^•is, Bl. Schn. p. '6'A, pi. 71 ; Schley. Faun. Japun. 



Foiss. p. 300, pi. 139. 



djidsensis, Bl. Schn. p. 35G. 



Walawak Tenkee, Russell, i. p. 6, tab. 10. 



lihiiiobatus djeddensis, Riipp. All. F'isch. p. 54, tab. 14. fig. 1 ; Bcnn. 



in Life of liafflvs, p. 093. 



dubanieH, Bluittv. Faun. Fr. p. 48. 



Khynchobatus lievis, Midi, i^- Hode, p. Ill; Bleek, Vcrh. Bat. Gen. 



xxiv. Play. p. 58 ; Dumeril, Flasmobr. p. 483. 

 djeddensis, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 412 ; Bay, Fish. Malah. p. 273. 



Snout narrowed, prolonged, and pointed. The series of tubercles 

 are arranged as in lih. ancylostomus, but the tubercles are very small. 

 Dental surface of both jaws slightly undulated. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago. 



a. Adult female : stuiFed, six feet long. 



b. Half-grown : stuffed, lied Sea. Purchased of Dr. Riippell. 



c. Young. Zanzibar. Presented by Lieut. -Col. Playfair. 



d. Skin, in spirits, of an adult female (5 feet long). Seychelles. 



From Prof. E. P. Wright's Collection. 



e. Young: stuffed. Sumatra. From the Collection of Sir St. 



Kaffles. 

 /. Young : stuffed. East-Indian archipelago. From the Collection 



of Dr. van Lidth de Jeude. 

 (J. Young : stuffed. India. Presented by T. E. J. Eoilcau, Esq. 

 h. Young. From the Haslar Collection. 

 ^-^•. Jaws of adult examples. 



3. KHINOBATUS*. 



Rhinobatus, sp., Bl. Schn. 



Syrrhina et Rhinobatus, 3Iiill. Sf- Heide. 



Body depressed, gradually passing into the tail. Cranial cartilage 

 produced into a long rostral process, the space between the process 

 and pectoral fin being filled by a membrane. Spiracles wide, 

 behind the eye. Nostrils oblique, wide ; anterior nasal valves not 

 confluent. Teeth obtuse, with an indistinct transverse ridge. Dorsal 



* 1. Rhinobatus productus, Giranl, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. PhUad. 1854, p. 196, 

 and U. S Pac. B. R. E.vpcd. Fish. p. 370. 



2. jaram, Monfrovzier, in Aim. Soc. Ayric. Hist. Nat. Lyon, 1856, 



p. 220. — Woodlark Island (Louisiade archipelago) 



